Yesterday, I suggested we consider the concept of lost hope. I turn on the TV and watch what is happening in Baltimore and at first find myself asking like the preacher in the movie “The Big Chill” — “Where did our hope go?” Yet, you listen to the people being interviewed and all the experts…

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I watched an old movie about Churchill last night, and it had a in it a fascinating discussion between FDR and Churchill about being, as Churchill described himself, a reluctant Christians. Churchill went on to say that there was nothing more wicked than to take away a man’s hope. Almost every Sunday in the Episcopal…

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A popular expression about promises is “they are like pie crusts — easily made and easily broken.” Grandma Danny gives us another view: “A promise is a sacred thing. Be not in haste to make it. But once a promise you have made. Be sure you do not break it.” A broken promise or a…

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Found in Grandmother Danielson’s Bible is a series of statements such as “I asked for health, that I might do greater things, I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.” The point of these statements is to say that it is often we are not always given what we ask for, but instead…

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“Nature is the raw material children bring with them; nurture determines what they actually do with it.” — Linda Kreger Silverman Nurture is one of those words that makes one feel good. When we nurture a plant, a child, an athlete, or an idea they seem to grow healthy and strong. It implies that love…

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