This thought came from a pamphlet by Reverend Frank S. Morley, Ph.D. a Presbyterian. The pamphlet was written in November of 1954 and was a presentation at the Grace Presbyterian Church in Calgary, Canada. The presentation was named “What we can Learn from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (Commonly called the…
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On Letting the Universe Do Its Thing
I was watching a show on T.V. the other night called, ‘Swamp People’, a show about swamp men thinning out the swamp of an expanding population of alligators. Alligators are very dangerous animals and I believe that some even consider them to be prehistoric beasts. It is a very dangerous way to make a living….
On No Ordinary People
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest, most uninteresting person, you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw their future now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. It is in the light of these overwhelming…
On Life is Fragile
William Jennings Bryan probably explained death and its purpose best when he said, “Because of the fall- death has come to be the universal heritage; it may claim its victims in infancy or youth, in the period of life’s prime, or its summons may be deferred until the snows of age have gathered upon the…
On Self Respect-Honor
When I was a young boy during the Second World War, the Japanese people were considered by most, if not all Americans, as sneaky, cruel and hateful. As youth we called them, ‘yellow japs’. I Remember Pearl Harbor, the day the Japanese Navy unexpectedly bombed US Navy ships, with many sailors still on board. I…
On Good Judgment and Good Advice
Someone has said: ‘Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgment.’ For us to awake each morning happy and confident, we probably didn’t need to do anything spectacular. We just needed to remember the ordinary glories we enjoy of life and love. When we open our eyes in the morning we have…
On The Power of Silence
Everywhere I go, people, all people, even little people are busily using some type of electronic device to communicate with someone else that could be either on the other side of the world, or, in the next chair. Many may be playing a game, earning points that would make them better than others playing the…
On Marriage
You may have heard the term, ‘Point of No Return’. Nowadays they have added two more, ‘Points of No Return’, meaning, where once a decision is made you can no longer turn back. The term was originally referring to air travel where a plane, for example, has flown out into the ocean and no longer…
On Being Good for Nothing
I remember reading the late Paul Harvey’s, “The Rest of the Story” when I was younger and how impressed I was with the stories of great people. One such story was about a young boy named ‘Guiseppe’. Guiseppe’s father was an Italian fisherman who came to America with his family, bought a fishing boat and…
On Writing Our Personal Histories
I have written about Writing Your Personal History but my thoughts here are taking a motivational approach. It is not because the things stated before, in other writings, are less important but because there are different ways that we are stimulated and/or motivated. We all seem to look at things a little differently. I rather…