• Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, July 12

  I copied this poem from a birthday card—“The Old Gardener” by Admiral R.H. Jackson: “Count your garden by the Flowers, Never by the leaves that fall; Count your days by […]

  July 12, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Monday, July 11

  There is a gospel hymn in our hymnal called “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” whose title comes from a small book in the Bible call Lamentations.  The context of that sentence […]

  July 11, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 10

  It is always inspiring to read about people helping people and today I read that a tennis star named Andre Agassi who has started a school for 650 at-risk kids […]

  July 10, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Saturday, July 9

  Yesterday, I went to the Hancock Shaker Village near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where at one point  in the 19th century over 232 people lived.  Shakerism was a Protestant Sect that required […]

  July 8, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Thursday, July 7

  From another newsletter, “Love what is true, reject what is false and question what you do not understand.  Lead with your hearts, think with your minds and commit your bodies […]

  July 7, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Friday, July 8

  Eighteen years ago, a friend called this scripture a “Recipe for Courage:”  “Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen […]

  July 7, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Wednesday, July 6

  Catherine  Neptin-Rieder put this on Facebook recently:  “Do more than belong: participate.
   Do more than care: help.   
Do more than believe: practice.   Do more than be fair: be kind.   
Do […]

  July 5, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, July 5

  I was watching a television show the other night showing Paul Newman’s “Hole in the Wall “ camp in Ashford.  I have been driving by that camp since 1996 and […]

  July 4, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Monday, July 4

  I have had to read some American History to explain the Declaration of Independence to Subhash Shah, a young man from India who has been coming to our church since […]

  July 3, 2011 Stan'sCorner

• Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 3

  My vote for the most stirring line of the Declaration of Independence is the last sentence:  “And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection […]

  July 2, 2011 Stan'sCorner