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Monday, 4/27/20: Reflections on Yesterday’s Sermon On Sunday mornings we attend worship at the church and we hear a good sermon and hopefully feel the presence of God. But the practice of what is preached begins on Monday. The challenge … Continue reading →

DIG OF THE DAY … Protect the new generation; do not let them grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. … Continue reading →

QUOTE OF THE DAY … “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury Image from NeedPix

DIG OF THE DAY … It is when things go wrong, when the good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things … Continue reading →

DIG OF THE DAY … God is not looking for heroic figures, wonderful people who captivate others with their charisma. It must have been quite baffling to the educated world when Jesus pronounced, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Blessed … Continue reading →

HISTORY OF THE DAY … from the Writer’s Almanac for today, 8/24/20: On this date in 1873, the St. Louis, Missouri, school board authorized the first public kindergarten in the United States. The driving force behind the kindergarten was Susan … Continue reading →

DIG OF THE DAY … It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But … Continue reading →

QUOTE OF THE DAY … “The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the … Continue reading →

QUOTE OF THE DAY, from the Writer’s Almanac for today: Today is the birthday of British physicist Ernest Rutherford, born in Brightwater, New Zealand (1871). His parents moved to New Zealand, they said, “to raise a little flax and a … Continue reading →

QUOTES OF THE DAY … Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao Tzu So … what … Continue reading →