Here is the world.  Beautiful and terrible things will happen.  Don’t be afraid. Frederick Beuchner   My hospital chaplain friend wiped a tear from the corner of her eye as she described standing in one of her cancer patient’s hospital rooms as...

“Necessity changes a course but never a goal.” - Sanskrit Proverb   I think it’s fairly safe to say that the past two months haven’t gone the way many of us suspected, at the start of 2020, that they would.  Vacations,...

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.  - Rumi Certain times in life call for all of us — no matter our circumstances — to extend ourselves on behalf of our fellow human beings.  I believe that now,...

“The disaster had fallen out of sight, like the train itself, and if the calm that followed it was not greater than the calm that came before it, it had seemed so. And the dear ordinary had healed as...

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J D’Angelo Recently I went to a new doctor’s office for the first time, and as I waited in line at the front desk, I found...

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky   When I meet with a group of teens at the church where I work, I typically ask everyone to say their name and what we’ve grown to refer to as “Happy/Crappy's.”  Not only...

On or about December 1910 human character changed.  I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered or a hen had laid an egg. The change was...

The serious problems in life, however, are never fully solved.  If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost.  The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not...

Keep some room in you heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver About a year ago, I attended an event at the church where I work, and though I don’t remember the speaker’s talk topic or the theme of the...

What we need in the world is manners…I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.  —Eleanor Roosevelt I think we can all...