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…
The Poor and Needy
You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat…