If a person is hungry, we should give them bread. When there is no bread, we can at least give words that nourish. To a person who looks ill or is physically frail, we can …
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‘Tis Always the Season for Giving
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Start Again
Could there be such a miracle, she wondered, such a flowering of the human heart where once it was torn apart from itself...
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Tell Me a Story
I’ve been thinking about stories recently. How they get dismissed as non-essential to life, when, in fact, to quote author Philip Pullman, “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in …
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A Night to Remember
The swing band with its six-foot-four charismatic young star singer, Ken Snakehips Johnson, wowed the revellers. Youthful couples, many in uniform, crowded the dance floor. They danced to forget the hardships and horrors of World War II...
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Rights, not Revenge
I was reading about Rosa Parks the other day. The wonderful woman whose peaceful and dignified refusal to bow down to bigotry, a.k.a. cold-hearted, narrow-minded, spiteful meanness, helped to change the world.
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Right Place, Right Time
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The choice is yours
The way you look at any situation changes the situation's significance for your life...
