Memorial Day

Old Warrior
Richard Proctor “D-Day Warrior”
There he stands framed between two lampposts to his yard. He has just finished cutting the lawn of his lovely brick cottage in Roanoke, Virginia and it is Memorial Day. He is in his 80’s. He must be because he is a “D-Day Warrior.”
On June 6, 1944 Richard Proctor was merely [...]

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Words

Tickles
Some people use words to disclose
and
others employ them to dispose.
I like to think of them
as
gerbils under our shirts.

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Miss Adie

Miss Adie
They called her Miss out of respect, I supposed. Or, was it perhaps because there was always a question of why she lived with a man who was old enough to be her father until his death? In the old south the term “Miss” was often applied to women who had been single on [...]

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THE RIGHT TOUCH

The Right Touch
A Christian missionary who ran a free clinic in a poor neighborhood of a third world country was surprised one day to discover that the lines in front of his clinic were longer than those in front of the new and more modern governmental clinic down the street. He determined to watch on [...]

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Easter Thoughts

The Morning Star  
O Star of the morning, you have served the night. Rise now to your zenith in the day and guide the commerce of the world.  Bring comforting beam to the lost, grant hope to the suffering and needy, delight yourself in children at play as lambs that kick the clouds and grant [...]

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Love and Immortality

It has been shown that we perish emotionally and spiritually for the lack of qualitative love. There is an irrefutable link between our need for love and our desire for immortality. 
Why do we seek to achieve, to advance beyond our peers, to seek recognition and honor among others?  It is our inherent need for love; of [...]

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Autumn Flight

Soaring Down
 
The glory of God sparkles in

things that soar – like leaves
 leaping from a tree in Autumn. 
Fledglings in space, they
 lean out and

stretch to test the wind.
 
 I saw a whole flock of them loose
their grip on frail perches to

 fling themselves into
the air flapping,
 lofting,
sinking,

spinning and
boogying in the sun –
a  flurry of foil [...]

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Practicing Stillness

There is a well circulated story of a group of explorers who hired porters to take their supplies into the interior of an African country.  The pace and progress of their journey was murder­ous.  After several days the explorers came to a place on the trail and discovered that the porters were sitting on their [...]

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Generosity

It is a high form of generosity to allow others to give to you.  In doing so you enable them to experience the joy of giving which is always enhancing.  Controlling people often do not allow others to give freely to them.  If they must yield to the giving act they usually have to tell [...]

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