Our Eternal Present
This is Where We Find Life The concept known as the “specious present” was first introduced by the philosopher William James in his influential Principles of Psychology (1890). It is […]
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Suffering
The Deepest Hurt
The nostalgia we often feel for times past partially stems from a conviction that human misery is the special ingredient of our own time. We yearn for release; we hanker
Take My Hand
According to an old legend, a man became lost in his travels and wandered into a bed of quicksand. Confucius saw the man’s predicament and said, “It is evident that
Where Are You Going?
When he was eighty-eight years old, the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once found himself on a train. When the conductor came by, Justice Holmes couldn’t find his
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The Pieces Don’t Fit
In one of his plays, Tennessee Williams tells about a mentally ill woman who is sitting at a card table set up in her garden, working a jig-saw puzzle. She
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Joy Is Like The Rain
How St. Paul must have treasured those words which Jesus spoke in the synagogue! “He has sent Me to bring glad tidings.” The “glad tidings”–the Good News of Jesus Christ–flooded
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How Do You Recognize Him?
Today’s Lesson from Mark’s Gospel is the story of Jesus being baptized in the River Jordan by John The Baptist. Later in the New Testament, when the story is retold,
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We’re All Invited
For Jesus Christ, the secret of His life was made known in His passionate, joyful, expectant giving of Himself to the Will of God. At every moment of His life,
A Field Of Buttercups
On August 5, 1942, an orphanage (called “Our Home”) in the Warsaw ghetto was emptied of its 200 Jewish children. They were to be marched to the little village of
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Mourning Becomes Dancing
Anyone who believes these words seriously is well on the way toward possessing the key to the solution of the problem of life itself. We hunger and thirst for some
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There Must Be Some Mistake
There is a daily syndicated newspaper cartoon strip called “The Small Society” in which the author seems to be telling us that our Society is coming apart at the seams.
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A Terrible Cavity
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
I Cry For You
When a young man falls in love with a young woman, he often resorts to very extravagant language to express his emotion. He may say, “I would climb the highest
To Turn Us Upside Down
Once upon a time a government surveyor brought his equipment to a farm, called on the farmer, and asked permission to go into one of the fields and take readings.
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Why Me?
Massachusetts Congressman “Tip” O’Neil, Speaker of the House, tells a wonderful story about a man named “Honest Jake Bloom” of Boston. Honest Jake became well-known in the Boston area because
The Ongoing Struggle
A man who was severely depressed because he “wasn’t getting ahead,” told his wife that his life was without purpose. “What do you mean you have nothing to live for,”
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The Sign Of Life
Although the precise length of Jesus’ final journey to the Cross, is not known, it likely can be compared to the ground covered by those of you who walked to
School Is Never Out
A fourth-grader seemed perplexed as he lingered over his homework assignment. Finally, he called out, “Mom, I need your help. I have to write a paper about ‘The Person I
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There Is Nothing Else
There is an old saying that goes, God throws our sins into the depths of the sea and puts a sign on the shore that reads, “NO FISHING.” In an
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