I look to thee in every need, And never look in vain; I feel thy touch, Eternal Love, And all is well again; The thought of Thee is mightier far Than sin and pain and sorrow are. – S. Longfellow August 14 is branded somewhere inside my skull as the start of football two-a-days. Now…
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Patience
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself, as our own resistance to it. – Jean Nicolas Grou. An often heard phrase in the Hubbell household was and still is – “Patience is a virtue.” Often the listener to this age-old wisdom didn’t feel very virtuous at the moment,…
Interruption or a Nudge
This is my last one about interruptions, I promise. That is until I forget that I ever wrote about them, which seems to be happening more often. Al Waring writes, that interruptions are “trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work.” Another way to look at interruptions is that one’s…
Storms
No today’s meditation is not about the unusual amounts of rain everyone seems to be having this year, unless you are literally “underwater.” No let’s talk about the “storms” that enter our life at always the worst time. In the words of Elizabeth Fitzgerald when “All Hell done broke loose.” When these storms appear, and…
The Fallen and the Weak
They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose, Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink, From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be, In the right with two or three. – J.R. Lowell Pretty tough…