A teacher friend of mine lamented that so many in her profession basically gave up their lives for their profession. Not this their vocation is unworthy of their effort and sacrifice, but that in retirement they discover that they have not much of a life to enjoy....
{I was on deck a couple of years ago to fill in as the speaker at a Masonic Interfaith breakfast, and although the speaker didn’t show, they called off the sermon and invocation altogether. This unused passage is compiled from the notes intended for use that...
A central belief in Christianity is the incarnation of deity as a human being. This is more than “God within us”, which is easy to accept. It is easy because anything we don’t like we can say is not part of that, and what we do like we claim to...
{Written for 10th Anniversary of 9-11} It is no random chance that people in all cultures have memorials. It is the human condition that what we remember what we cherish, and what we cherish, we remember. It is those memories that become the foundation of a society...
Praise you Lord, for in the midst of woe you have not forgotten me. To each you give a burden they can carry, and share the yolk invisibly next to us. Of broken heart, I see the sky is blue, the breeze gentle. Anguished and pensive, you find work for my hands and...
{This year (2004), we were unable to go to our church for a blessing on our Easter baskets — a Polish tradition called that is spreading throughout the Catholic Church. After researching it online, I wrote and used the following blessing as an approximation of...