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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Lost Hope
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…
Enjoy Life
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…
Nurture
“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…