"We can determine and know what manner of person we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes, that calls us to noble action."
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY-CARE FOR THE CAREGIVERS
It is reciprocation, small though it may be in comparison. We can be eyes for those who once watched out for us; we can be support to feeble limbs that once bore us along the way. Mostly, we can be a light for our loved ones as their world here dims. Caregivers, your tasks are many and your labor is sometimes long. But take heart; you bring honor to your loved ones and to yourselves .
Not Just Another Pretty Phrase-The 400th Anniversary of the KJV
“A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin one. To seek relentlessly to update it or make it “relevant” is to miss the point, like yearning for a ‘hip-hop Shakespeare. ‘
Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward’, says the book of Job. Want to try to improve that for Twitter?”
The Other Prodigal
"He has come home too late. Nobody has seen him from afar and run joyfully to meet him. There will be no forgiveness, no best robe, no ring, no “music and dancing”. He stands in his shabby clothes with his poor, roped suitcase. A beaten-up car- the last trace of his squandered wealth- parked in the background. He is gaping, with his hand to his mouth, at the ruin of the family homestead, ruin caused by his own greed and wastefulness.