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"...All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well…" - from "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julianof Norwich (d. 1416)

 

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."  - Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Probably the only Ayn Rand quote I am in unequivocal agreement with: “You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." — Ralph Waldo Emerson (Unitarian Minister & Transcendentalist, The “Concord Sage”, d. 1882)

A few of you know that I have a treasure chest of favorite sayings stashed away in a personal email signature...

Growing up in southwest Louisiana, I always enjoyed the signs of the return of the fall season, waves of geese and duck flocks flying south, the initial tease of cool evenings, clear, cool nights wonderful for stargazing...

Sally Wood and I attended the Dwight Brown Leadership Experience (DBLE) workshop in Denton, TX a few weeks ago, held at the beautiful Texas Women’s University campus.  We are both very grateful to the church for sending us to this engaging workshop. There were over seventy attendees, the largest class to date. The meeting provided guidance and training on...

This month’s column will thankfully, I’m sure, be short. As I write this, I am still basking in the peaceful message of our Rev. Earle Ramsdell’s service on “Poems, Prayers and Promises”, and the special music he, Bruce Moore and Ila Stoltzfus provided. I’ve also been jammin’ to the widely ranging styles of music offered by the new Progressive Radio network station, WHYR, 96.9 FM, as I...

By Michael Hebert

By John Barr

 

Thank you never seems like enough.

 Years ago I received the advice to always offer sincere gratitude, and never to expect it.  This advice has stood me in good stead, but I find that as I practice it, sincere gratitude seems insufficient for all the marvelous things that people do for me and with me.