“Mama?” “Yes.” “What does persnickety mean?” “Go look it up.” And so Mom would always respond until I quit asking. I learned to look up words on my own. I learned self-reliance, independence. Mom had her way. In 1944, C.S. Lewis published an essay entitled, “The Inner Ring” where he described man’s desire to belong […]
It all began the day I got the news. Opening a box containing a pacifier has its effect. The news arrested my unrestricted, youthful perspective and changed everything. The emotions, thoughts, excitements, realities and anticipations occupied me. This news came on its schedule, not mine. With much to do, preparations to be made and only
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“Therefore persevere. By God’s help and by your own faithfulness something good will come from the unpromising beginning. For there are beginnings everywhere, and there are good beginnings, where you begin with God; and no day is the wrong one to begin upon – not even an unpromising one if you begin with God.” Soren
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Advent, beginnings, are like that old Confucius saying – the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In my life, it began with Daniel. His presence, its meaning, as his image, remains with me. Sensory perceptions have a way of evoking not just memory, but reality. Daniel was a big man, strong,
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