“In the beginning was the Word,… All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Wherefore, he is possessor of all things; for all things are subject unto him, both in heaven and on earth, the…
Tag: Life
On The Social Magnets in Life That Pull on Us
My younger brother, Martin, was a poet and a philosopher of sorts. While he was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard we often exchanged thoughts via letters. His letters included poems and philosophies that were critical of the norm. He sometimes described things that he thought were wrong with families, society and life. In one…
On Establishment of Religious Liberty
Harry Emerson Fosdick once said that: “A constructive faith is the supreme organizer of life.” Faith, in certain organized religions, is not always constructive nor is it always an organizing influence. In this great country it was not easy, in fact, it was a very difficult struggle to separate church and state by eliminating mandatory…
On Being a Valentine
Valentine’s Day has been a part of my life ever since I was a small child, as it probably has been in yours. Even before I started school, I well remember the small candy hearts with things like “I love you” written on them. After I started school, the evening before the big day, (Valentine’s…
On Confidence
Every child born to this earth is born with physical, cognitive and social restrictions because of his infant state. But there is a spirit inside that child that tries, from the very beginning, to cast off his restrictions, as he is able to break away from the things that bind. Each utterance and each forward…
On Mistakes
“There are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it is a mistake is to make that mistake and look back and say, “Yup, that was a mistake”. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not…
On Flywheels
Nature intended our thoughts to be a guide to action not a substitute for it. While I was finishing my studies for a doctoral degree, I was talking with a fellow educator at the university where I worked. I had heard him say, many times, that he, too, often thought about obtaining his advanced degree…
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 Filtering Life
There are many filters in life and if you ask certain tradesmen they would tell you that filters are life savers. Filters are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, and even in our places of work. Industry has to filter their smoke coming out of their chimneys. We filter everything that we can to preserve…
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…