I apologize for being missing in action. I’ve been in Atlanta attending the funeral of one of the classiest women I’ve ever known. She was my Aunt, Dorothy Fendler, who had been as supportive and loving to me and my family for the last twenty years as my own mother would have been had she…
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Truth
Truth comes in silence into every heart and soul it finds open for its reception, or rather it opens our eyes to perceive that we live amid its glories and in its very courts, that it permeates us like the very air we breathe, this “light that never shone on land or sea.”
Environment vs. Breeding
One of my family’s favorite movies is Trading Places with Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis. The two wealthy brokers bet one dollar on what is more important one’s environment or one’s breeding. If you haven’t seen it – do. It is wonderful. I think the answer does come out in the movie…
The Worst
How often have I said, “I’m prepared for the worst.” In some ways this mentality has been part of my life’s training. As a lawyer and then as a risk management consultant, I was paid to point out the “worst possible case.” Yet a greater teacher counseled us to “to take no anxious thought for…
Restlessness
If in any hour our mind is disturbed, we need to switch harmonies. How do we remedy restlessness? When I was learning centering prayer our instructor told us that amongst the silence often our mind will wander. He suggested that when it did we repeat a centering word. It could be most any word, but…