The Silence of Growth – Sunday, March 31, 1985
The world shouts its demands at us in many ways. Voices over a thousand radio stations jangle at once. Undigested bits of information come creeping...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
What’s In A Name? – Sunday, March 17, 1985
Shakespeare's Juliet, on her balcony pondered a question that gives cause for consideration yet today. "What's in a name?" she asked. "That which we call...
Fostering Aesthetic Awareness – Sunday, March 10, 1985
For many of us, life is a visit to a large picture gallery—a gallery where most of the paintings are facing the wall. Our senses...
The Workmanship of Mine Hands – Sunday, March 03, 1985
One of life's more youthful and exciting times is the annual renewal of the earth called spring. It's a time when one can have a...
The Power of Praise – Sunday, February 17, 1985
More than a hundred years ago the famous English man of letters, Samuel Johnson, said, “The applause of a single human being is of great...
Facing Problems – Sunday, February 10, 1985
In much of the Northern Hemisphere it is the long, gray season when life seems a little harder for want of sunshine. We battle flu...
Life is Good – Sunday, February 03, 1985
Often our lives are so full of the bounty of this world that it is easy for us to say, "Life is good." We have...
Being Anonymous – Sunday, January 27, 1985
There are among us those whose names are household words, whose lives and actions are common knowledge to all: movie personalities, sports heroes, politicians and...
Nearer, My God, To Thee – Sunday, January 20, 1985
As we look around, we see people who measure their lives as failures, as drab, as small, and yet are they? In that rhythm of...