We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745) Something else to think about. Oh, those two age old questions: how much is too much? and how much is not enough? Wonder how that sentence works if I put a different … Read more

I have not heard these words before, but I think they may just have crawled in among my top 10 poems. One takes a risk when one invites the Lord       Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon       Away, for always the unexpected soon       Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard,       … Read more

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.” – Artur Schnabel, pianist (1882-1951) Matthew 14:23 – After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Hmm. When I first considered these two sentences together … Read more

“The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.” – William J. Johnson I got this quote last night as the intro to my frequent email from the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. It’s a good one to start every day with.