Friendship is a state of mind on which transient circumstances, good or bad, have no effect. It’s a difficult to explain combination of admiration, affection, loyalty, and understanding — a kind of spiritual magnetism that draws one person to another. If it is real friendship “shocks of adversity” only intensify it, only make a person…
Tag: Webb Hubbell
Ordinary Saints
We just finished celebrating All Saints Day. I think that in most cases the men and women we recognize as Saints had one thing in common — they never saw themselves as extraordinary; they saw what they did and who they were as very ordinary and not particularly special. This is consistent with Jesus’s Sermon…
Faith versus Doubt
I know if I speak to an audience whether it be a book club, university, or business organization and after I conclude and say, “Are there any questions?’ if I get no response I’ve given a lousy talk. No I’m not talking about the initial pause that comes after the question. That’s just a factor…
Topping Off
Before there were things such as automatic shut off nozzles and warnings about “topping off” would ruin your fuel system, I admit to being one who “topped off.” I had it in my mind that those few extra drops of fuel would prevent me from running out of gas down the road. Great athletes know…
The Truth — A Lost Virtue
Somewhere in the Bible it says “the truth shall set you free.” Maybe my readers can remind me where. Most of us grew up with George Washington and the Cherry tree. Isn’t it fascinating to contemplate a President who “Cannot tell a lie.” Maybe its my age, maybe its a result of watching last night’s…