I have always been fond of the French term au revoir and sometimes substitute it for good-bye. Au revoir literally means “till I see you again.” Five years ago, on April 17, 2015, I bade “au revoir” to my wife Ann. As each day passes I come ever nearer to the moment I will see […]
From whence do we arrive our concept of beauty? I will never forget going on a fishing boat out to the Gulf Stream, some thirty miles off the coast of Carolina Beach, North Carolina. I was ten or eleven at the time, and I believe I was the first person on the boat to get […]
On some nights sixty-six years ago I stood guard in a military camp in Korea. As I walked back and forth in the cold, alert to the sounds and movements around me, my mind was filled with thoughts of home. I thought especially of the loving wife that waited for me there. Out of those […]
My wife Ann and I professed our Christian faith. We realized that we were imperfect people in desperate need of God’s love and mercy. We acknowledged and confessed our sins, and we placed our belief and hope in our Savior, Jesus Christ. We praised the Lord for His many blessings, and we knew that as […]
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace. This beautiful sentence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses the sort of feeling that is beyond our ability to describe. No dictionary can provide words adequate to describe such […]
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