I do none harm, I say none harm, I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live. — Sir Thomas More in Richard Bolt’s, A Man For All Seasons. It is hard for people to imagine that a football player could say or…
Month: October 2020
Remembered
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. — St. Augustine. I think most of us know we aren’t immortal, but i think most of us want to be remembered. Then again remembered for what? It’s a good meditation exercise to ask oneself, “How would I like to be remembered?” It is…
Earth Hath No Sorrows
Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive! — John Muir. Suzy and I traveled to the North Carolina mountains last week with dear friends. We just needed…
The Power Of Human Compassion
Then Jesus called the twelve together… and he sent them out … and to heal. — Luke 9:1-2. What a glorious gift we have all been given — to heal. No, I don’t mean that we all have been given miraculous powers or to cure with the laying on of our hands. I’m talking about the…
God’s Justice
Today we have Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day. Isn’t it amazing how over a lifetime our viewpoints and hero worship changes? Do you wonder how history will treat us five hundred years later. Will we be judged by the mores of today or by the values and understandings of five hundred days in the…