Silver Linings
May 23, 1999
A father of five children, who lost his job a year ago, had to survive on part-time work while looking for a steady job. He...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
The Gift of a Child
May 16, 1999
The birth of a child brings joyful noise into a home. And then, a score of years later, the silence after his departure is filled...
An Artist’s Eye
May 9, 1999
A newborn baby laid in its mother’s arms is a bundle of potentialities. For one so small, knowing little and recognizing even less, it will...
Voices
May 2, 1999
In the days when people depended upon sheep for food and clothing, village shepherds often gathered their flocks into a single sheepfold at night. Once...
Giving All That We Can
April 25, 1999
In our daily opportunities to give help to others, do we measure our efforts in terms of their immediate results or by whether we did...
Home
April 18, 1999
Perhaps the most enduring and important theme in all the world’s great literature is the search for home. From the great epic poems of antiquity...
A Song to Lean On
April 11, 1999
It was Thomas Carlyle who penned the words: “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”1 One important duty of angels is to...
A Newness of Life
April 4, 1999
Every spring we celebrate a newness of life. We rejoice over blossoms that have kept their promise; we cheer for saplings that have survived winter’s...
We Are All Stewards
March 28, 1999
As a service project, a college student undertook to raise a puppy for a guide dog organization. Her job was to feed, exercise, socialize, and...