Music & the Spoken Word Library

On Wasting a Lifetime – Sunday, February 03, 1980

Is there really, somewhere, in a meadow far away, still a shepherdess who sings all day while she watches her flocks?  If there is, we...

Gifts of the Night – Sunday, January 27, 1980

A dynamic and optimistic executive was once asked if he ever got discouraged. His quick reply was a pearl of insight. He said, "I don't...

Beginning Anew – Sunday, January 20, 1980

Oh divine Redeemer…turn me not away…grant me pardon and…remember not my sins… oh divine Redeemer. 1

Homesickness – Sunday, January 13, 1980

Of all the sicknesses which afflict man, homesickness is at once the easiest to contract and the most difficult to cure. For we can be...

A Light For This Year – Sunday, January 06, 1980

The turn of a decade, perhaps even more than the turn of a year, is a time for reflection, a summing up of where we've...

Suddenly We’re Older

November 26, 1972

Nothing in life is quite so fleeting as the present moment. It quicky passes to become forever a memory. Thomas Aldrich wrote: “All the best...

Gratitude in Action

November 19, 1972

As we pause this Thanksgiving Season to reflect on the blessings of life, let us also pause to consider the way in which we show...

Keep on Being a Success

November 12, 1972

“One thing is forever good;” said Emmerson, and “That one thing is Success.”1 There is a great exhilaration which comes to one through honest, well-earned...

One To-Day is Worth Two To-Morrows

November 5, 1972

There are many rewards I life worth planning and working for – education, careers, marriage, a family, and retirement, to name only a few. Nearly...