Sometimes I feel like an interruption,and then I want to shrinkback into my shelland never come out again.I want to walk away and say,“I’m sorry I took your time.” Being…
An old fable that has been passed down for generations tells about an elderly man who was traveling with a boy and a donkey. As they walked through a village,…
About 2000 years ago, a small group of Jewish people, living under the tyranny of Roman rule, began to listen to the words of an itinerant preacher. They saw him…
When Mother Teresa was asked, “What the biggest problem in the world today?” She answered, without hesitation, “The biggest problem in the world today is that we draw the circle…
January often gives us cold spells with sub-zero temperatures and many inches of snow. I am reminded of a night in January, 1960 when I attended a CELAM Latin American…
When the Statue of Liberty was remodeled in the 1980’s, it was discovered that the entire inside support system had to be replaced. The outside copper skin of the statue…
In a Peanuts cartoon Snoopy the dog is feeling great. He comes dancing into the first frame saying to himself: “Sometimes I love life so much I can’t express it!”…
Many years ago there was a Jewish lady named Mrs. Rosenberg who was stranded late one night at a fashionable resort on Cape Cod – one that did not admit…
Many years ago, I was walking in the farm that has belonged to my father’s family in Kentucky for many generations, and I happened to looked down and I saw…
Have you ever stood somewhere at night where it was perfectly dark all around you? You looked up into the sky and your jaw dropped in amazement at the wonder…
Integrity is not a slogan we recite. It is a life we reveal. It means honesty, yes, but more deeply it means an uprightness of character so consistent that there…
As a pilgrim walks along a road he sees some men working on a stone building. “You look like a monk,” the pilgrim said. “I am that,” said the monk. “Who is…
New Year’s Day arrives like a clean page, but the ink in our hand is time — the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it,…
