The next two meditations are adapted from DAILY HOPE, Rick Warren's daily devotional blog (September 23-27, 2016). You may read past devotional readings, and sign up to receive DAILY HOPE…
---------------------------- "To free yourself from suffering, free yourself from attachments." --Buddha ---------------------------- By Elizabeth Sunshine, posted September 19, 2016 at: www.breakpoint.org. Sunshine is an MTS student at the University of Notre Dame…
Praying Hands, 1508 by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) ----------------- O Merciful God, in your presence we confess our sinfulness, our shortcomings, and our offenses against you. You alone know how often…
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ON GETTING WHAT WE DESERVE: "A lot of people who complain that they aren't getting what they deserve don't know how lucky they are." (Mad magazine, Issue #275) In…
James B. Coats (1901-1961) spent most of his life teaching music in public schools in Mississippi. For over thirty years he was a deacon in the Baptist church,…
From A Diary of Private Prayer, 1949, by John Baillie, Church of Scotland pastor and theologian, (1886-1960); containing a morning and evening prayer for thirty-one days (adapted). ----------------------- MORNING PRAYER (ninth…
American Gothic, Grant Wood, 1930 --------------------------------- By Mark Regnerus in the December 4, 2014 issue of First Things. Regnerus is associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.…
From The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, 1952, p. 20-22 (ed.): A man 52 years of age consulted me. He was in great despondency. He said he…
“GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS” (1872) (part three) By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) (1907 Maude translation) ------------------------------ (...continued) One night as he was walking about the prison, Aksyónof…
“GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS” (1872) (part two) By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) (1907 Maude translation) ------------------------ (...continued) For 26 years Aksyónof lived as a convict in…