Keep Going When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must—but don’t you quit. Life …Read More
Category: Poem
Look to this Day, for it is Life ~ by Kalidasa
Look to this Day,for it is Life – the very Life of Life.In its brief course lie all the veritiesand realities of your existence:the Bliss of Growth,the Glory of Action,the Splendor of Beauty.For yesterday is already a dreamand tomorrow is only a vision;but today, well-lived,makes every yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision …Read More
Thanksgiving Song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Thanksgiving Song Grateful for each hand we hold Gathered round this table. From far and near we travel home, Blessed that we are able. Grateful for this sheltered place With light in every window, Saying welcome, welcome, share this feast Come in away from sorrow. Father, mother, daughter, son, Neighbor, friend and friendless; All together …Read More
The Pendulum by Dwight Lyman Moody
The Pendulum There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock. It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done. It would be expected to tick night and day, so many times a minute, sixty times that every hour, …Read More
Remembrance Day – “In Flanders Fields”
November 11 is Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. (While November 11 in the United States is Veteran’s Day, the British Remembrance Day is more similar to Memorial Day in the United States.) Remembrance Day honors the end of World War I and honors those that died in the war. Wearing a …Read More
Poem: Dear Ancestor
On this All Souls’ Day (November 2nd), there are many different traditions from around the world to honor our dead. The simplest is taking the time to visit the cemetery. Looking into the past, the ancestors that we can never really know stretch back through time, weaving us into the web of the planet and …Read More
A Story is like water
Sometimes a story washes over you, cleanses you, and leaves you open to new possibilities. The National Storytelling Festival started 46 years ago in the small town of Jonesborough, Tennessee. Today, on this annual festival in October, the small town explodes as thousands and thousands come to listen to some of the best performers in …Read More
Poem: “The Box” by Victor Caroli
The Vietnam War drafted many young men, including Victor Caroli. While he did not end up in Vietnam, many of those he trained with in bootcamp did end up there. Many did not come back. Many came back injured. As he contemplated this war during his time in the military, he created this poem so …Read More
For Grief by John O’Donohue
For Grief —by John O’Donohue When you lose someone you love,Your life becomes strange,The ground beneath you becomes fragile,Your thoughts make your eyes unsure;And some dead echo drags your voice downWhere words have no confidenceYour heart has grown heavy with loss;And though this loss has wounded others too,No one knows what has been taken from …Read More
That Ragged Old Flag
Happy Fourth of July! On this Independence Day in America, we honor the flag as a symbol of the country and of freedom. “That Ragged Old Flag!” by Johnny Cash I walked through a county courthouse square. On a park bench an old man was sitting there. I said, “Your old Court House is kinda …Read More