My father taught me a lesson a long time back. When I was old enough to vote I suggested to my father I might support one man even though he said some stupid things not because I thought he would do a good job, but because I really didn’t like his opponent. My father said…
Month: July 2023
Air Of Integrity
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for my hope has been in you. — Psalm 25:20. Today’s reading reminds me of the few people I have met who carried themselves with an air of integrity. When you meet someone like that you know it instantaneously. Integrity is something we used to expect in our leaders. It…
Unclean or Profane
Peter said to them, “You yourselves know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean. — Acts 10:28. Saint Peter couldn’t be clearer. Can you imagine a time when it would be against the law to…
Wonder
Our universities fail to guide us down the easiest paths to wisdom… Rather than teaching a sense of awe, they teach the very opposite: counting and measuring over delight, sobriety over enchantment, a rigid hold on scattered individual parts over an affinity for the unified and whole. These are not schools of wisdom, after all,…
Simple Gifts
My friend Robin also writes a blog. Most of her pieces are on simplification and avoiding excess, but this week she posted a quote that struck home. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde. As we enter our later years we value more and more simplicity and honesty in who we are. This…