A friend writes: “I spend innumerable minutes daily reminding myself to worry about what I can control and to let the rest take care of itself.” My friends words struck home. There are a lot of things I can control, but there are just as many I can’t. How about you? Unlike my friend, I…
Words Give Legitimacy
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…
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,…