Music & the Spoken Word Library

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...

It Is Not Marriage That Fails

January 14, 1973

It  is estimated  that  nearly  three-million  couples will be married in the United States this year – many for the first time. Marriage is on...

Let Your light So Shine

January 7, 1973

" We are sowing, daily sowing, Countless seeds of good and ill, . . ."1   There are few of us who pass through life without affecting  -   for good or bad -  the lives...

What Life Is Now

December 31, 1972

As we look toward the New Year, we could easily become overwhelmed at the challenges  that  lie  ahead. If we are not careful, over concern...

One Solitary Life

December 24, 1972

"He was  born  in  an  obscure  village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a...

Let Us Keep Christmas

December 17, 1972

More  than  any  other  season  of  the  year, Christmas  is a time for  remembering  friends, of kindness  and generosity  to  all, a time when  man ...

We All Face Disappointments

December 3, 1972

One of the important lessons we learn in life is  that  we  don't  always  get  what  we want when we want it - that disappointment...

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...