When my wife, Kathryn, died of cancer earlier this year, I was plucked from society to live in the land of the grieving. The land of grief is a cold […]
When Love Looks Out
When love looks out of this old man’s eyes And marks sweet youth in the moving crowd, I catch my breath At you with oceans to sail. I think what […]
The Girl I Love
I still want to tell you I remember Even though I am bent and slow And my eyes dim I still see you as I met you in the spring […]
FIFTY-FOUR YEARS
The last chapel of the semester took place at Elon College. Imagine a group of a hundred students, nineteen or twenty years old, orientals, latinos, blacks, whites listening to a […]
Don’t Let the Bad Guys Get You Down
It’s easy to skim such verses in Scripture, to gloss over them. Maybe it is wishful thinking, or even an aversion to conflict. Yet, Scripture is honest. It tolls loudly […]
A Joyful Noise
Psalm 14 is not a psalm that calls attention to itself, but still it is worth reading and mastering. A psalm of David, it is written to the choirmaster for […]
