December 10, 2023 Hope is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all. And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the...
December 9, 2023 “Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”— Doug Coupland Every year of her adult life, Sandy made the same disturbing comment as the holiday season rolled around: “I hate Christmas.” It put a damper on the joy and festivities of the rest of the...
December 8, 2023 Barney spent the last years of his life in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he went to live in retirement after 50 years in construction. It hadn’t been an easy life, but it paid the bills and put his kids through college. It had also been a path to...
December 7, 2023 “Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things…”— Psalm 119 The great scientist Albert Einstein once famously said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” When asked...
December 6, 2023 “We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn’t work that way, does it?”— Christine Feehan We’ve all heard of the phrase, “Time stands still,” and for mourners in Victorian, England there was some truth to it. If a family...
December 5, 2023 “It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It has been called “one...
