Dear Members and Friends, Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s […]
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Dear Members and Friends, How to Recognize GraceIt takes you by surpriseIt comes in odd packagesIt sometimes looks like lossOr mistakesIt acts like rainOr like a seedIt’s both reliable and […]
Dear Members and Friends, God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, […]
Listening is an act of surrender. -Brian Eno, 20th century But isn’t listening a natural act? Isn’t that what my two ears are for and something I do all the time […]
Don’t judge each day by the harvest your reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century Again this week I participated in a Memorial Celebration of […]
Patience and Gentleness is Power. -Leigh Hunt, 19th century This past week we celebrated the life of Elizabeth “Betty” Metcalf. Betty and her husband George joined Christ Congregational Church in November […]
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and […]
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. -George Gershwin, 20th century Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. […]
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf, 20th century One of the best things to be said of my […]
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. -Helen Keller, 20th century In his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, the Swiss psychologist C. G. […]