Psychologists tell us that, for most people, attitudes toward death are developed in several identifiable stages. One stage, they say, usually occurs between ages five and nine. This is when […]
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There is a wonderful story about the Philadelphia Orchestra when it was under the leadership of the great Leopold Stokowski. On one occasion, the orchestra was to perform a Beethoven
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There was an old woman tossed up in a basket, seventeen times as high as the moon. Where she was going, I couldn’t but ask it, For in her hand
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The world famous author/psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Tournier, has called loneliness “the most devastating malady of the age.” Another eminent physician has said of loneliness, “There is no human condition so
On my head, Lord, pour the sweet waters of serenity! Give me the gift of the untroubled mind! An old mountaineer was undergoing a physical examination. “Have you been sleeping
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not only is our economic security endangered, our
Old Patrick O’Brien lay in his bed, dying. In fact, he had been dying for several weeks. And, during that time, Father Murphy, his parish priest, had visited him almost
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Students in a “Creative Writing” class were accustomed to receiving writing assignments which involved various aspects of their everyday living. Consequently, as the course drew to a close, their final
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Someone has written a little tongue-in-cheek piece about living our lives in reverse. “Life is tough,” it begins… It takes a lot of your time, all your weekends, and what
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On a day like today (just two weeks before Easter), a Sunday School teacher queried her seven-year-old students on their understanding of the great Resurrection Event. “What does Easter mean
A middle-aged man was sitting in the doctor’s reception room, waiting to discover whether or not he had cancer. The minutes hung heavily on him. He kept looking at his
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The legendary American lawyer, orator and politician, Daniel Webster, was visiting John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Webster asked the eighty-year-old Adams how he was feeling. The
There is an old legend about St. Martin of Tours and his encounter with a mysterious visitor: One day as St. Martin sat in his prison cell, a knock suddenly
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A second-grader came home from school and announced to her mother that she would never have to go to school again. To prove her point she gave her mother her
This is a time of week and a time of day in which we come together and give special attention to life’s one big question: The “Why?” of life itself.
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“Then I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, and the main street of the city was pure gold,” wrote the author of the Book of Revelation. No doubt
A man dies. He finds himself in a reception area. He has no idea exactly where he is or where he is going, until a man dressed in a tuxedo
Actor Kirk Douglas recalls a conversation he had with a hitchhiker he picked up one day … I picked up a sailor who was on weekend leave. He jumped into
Most good novels are not written in pell-mell fashion — off the top of one’s head. Most mystery writers will tell you that the necessary first step in getting the
Fashions in language come and go. But it’s likely that the phrase “stressed out” will remain fashionable for a long time to come. Some social scientists say the “stressed out”
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