• Stan’s Corner, Monday, August 1

  I am reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant and found this description very fascinating: “Chimney smoke rose in wavering spirals that were white against the dark forest that ringed […]

  July 30, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 31

    “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us”  These words by […]

  July 30, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Saturday, July 30

  God can speak quietly:  “The Lord said,  ‘Elijah, Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then […]

  July 29, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Friday, July 29

  There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars, that swell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways […]

  July 28, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Thursday, July 28

  Christ has no hands but our hands To do His work today; He has no feet but our feet To lead men in His way; He has no tongue but […]

  July 27, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Wednesday, July 27

  Some words I have just read about marriage:  It is the challenge “to tame infatuation and grow it slowly into love…all would have to learn the practice of industrial-strength forgiveness […]

  July 26, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, July 26

  Accept me, my Lord, accept me for this while. Let those orphaned days that passed without thee be forgotten. Only spread this little moment wide across thy lap, holding it […]

  July 25, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Monday, July 25

  God hath not promise Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our lives thro’; God hath not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain. God hath not promised […]

  July 24, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 24

  Last Thursday, Judie and I saw the musical “Show Boat” at the Goodspeed Opera House.  It was originally done on Broadway in 1927.  Yes, you heard me, eighty four years […]

  July 23, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Saturday, July 23

  Yesterday, I was coming home from Stop and Shop (the Old Shaws) down Franklin St. when I passed by Janet Baldwin’s home.  You see, Janet is a shut-in now even […]

  July 22, 2011 Stan'sCorner