I’ve just finished reading The Tale of Despereaux to my children for the second time. We read it first in 2005, so I thought we could stand revisiting it. It’s a sweet story– a fairy tale story of a princess and a dungeon. The hero is a mouse (Despereaux), and the bad guys are some […]
Read moreAll the miles between us, they say that’s just the way it goesTime is no friend to lovers, stretched like the line that hangs the clothesBut we walk the distance another dayThe rope is thin but does not give wayI can hear the band of angels singin’ nowlike a story from the page is read […]
Read more“But is there a more religious practice than the study of the psychology of God? To anticipate the policies of the Most High with earthly policies is indispensable if one wishes to get through life.” Joseph and His Brothers, p. 1252 Can you see him winking at you? Mann, I mean. I can.
Read moreI got a card in the mail today. Actually, I received several, which was wonderful, as we (people) don’t seem to send much in the way of snail-mail these days. They were birthday cards, mostly, because tomorrow is mine. But the card I’m writing about here– the card I am quoting– isn’t a birthday card. […]
Read moreI went to Sunday school today. I think the last time I attended a Sunday school class– as a student, not as an assistant or a teacher– was in April. It was nice, for a change, to Not have to have all the answers, or even Most of them. It was nice to be sitting […]
Read moreYou who live in heavenHear the prayers of those of us who live on earthWho are afraid of being left by those we loveAnd who get hardened by the hurt.Do you remember when You lived downhere where we all scrapeTo find the faith to ask for daily bread?Did You forget about us after You had […]
Read more“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their […]
Read moreWe had been visiting my parents’ house and were returning home. We had just set out and, oddly, my parents had left before us on some sort of errand. My parents live on a small peninsula that juts into Peconic Bay, the body of water between the two forks at the eastern end of Long […]
Read moreBill and I stepped out of the store and walked toward the car. We’d gone about fifteen paces when I realized I was getting wet; I looked down and saw the smallest drop of water on my forearm. “What’s this on my skin?” I wondered out loud. And then, “Oh, it’s raining.” “Funny,” Bill said. […]
Read moreHere is a copy of an e-mail I received the other day: “v is for victory the test said NO! that’s right, whether U listen 2Duke or They Might Be Giants, the answer was the sameNO,NO,NO a thousand times no. clean bill of health,thanks for your prayers, your patience and yourrestraint :> “ This came […]
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