I remember, when Pastor Bob Smith was our interim minister, that one day while discussing the subject of prayer, he recounted this tale to illustrate the clarity of children’s thinking. He recalled that a pastor asked a little boy if he said his prayers every night. “Yes sir,” the boy replied. “And, do you always [...]
We have all searched for the words which, when fully learned and absorbed by them, might help our children learn early on some of the hard learned lessons of our own lives.
I was sitting in my office the other day and thinking about volunteers and all of the good things that they do for us and our community. Then I began to muse about the question of what makes volunteers do it?
That place we call “home” is forever embedded in our consciousness, and while being the cradle of our learning of the life lessons that are so important to our understanding of the world it also provided some of our earliest memories.
MAC’S MUSINGS Some years ago I read a piece called “When God Created Mothers” by the irrepressible Erma Bombeck.
It always seemed to me that blessings and inspiration are something like two differently shaped and sized shirts, each of which was made from the same bolt of cloth. Thus it is that I have always been very partial to two well-known aphorisms; one a blessing and the other an inspiring direction.
From time to time I spend some time in musing. The word is often used as a synonym for meditation but it really means the product of meditation. I try to take some time each day to do this, and, like every other habit of body and mind, it is made easier by repetition.
