Stan’s Corner, Sunday, December 11, 2011
This is a long poem but well worth your reading. It is called “I can’t Marry Her Now” by J. Frank Bartleson. “We had planned for so long a time. […]
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Stan’s Corner, December 10, 2011
We are discussing a book in the adult class on Sunday mornings and we came across this sentence: “Mature religion, far from doing away with ambiguity, gives us the grace […]
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Stan’s Corner, Friday, December 9, 2011
The first chapter of the Gospel of John begins this way: “In the beginning was the Word, and trhe Word was with God and the Word was God.” Eugene Peterson […]
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Stan’s Corner, Thursday, December 8, 2011
Macrina Wiederkehr Christmas Shopping O God of words, dear Word made flesh give birth to my thoughts, change them into words that will help me to Christmas up the […]
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Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Here are some of the great words to a song that Goff Gerow sang in church in October called “Love is Here:” “Come to the waters, you who thirst and […]
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Stan’s Corner, Saturday, November 26, 2011
One of my favorite Thanksgiving stories is the one about a man who had his billfold stolen and yet said he was still thankful. Someone asked him why he was […]
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Stan’s Corner, Friday, November 25, 2011
Here is a second description that makes the pilgrim experience vivid: “Governor William Bradford of the territory of Massachusetts did not have much to encourage him during the bleak days […]
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Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, November 22, 2011
There is much about the Pilgrim story that inspires me, not the least of which is seeing how they dealt with the tough conditions of the times: “Now no friends […]
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Stan’s Corner, Sunday, November 20, 2011
Another quote from Catherine Neptin-Rieder: “Lord I crawled across the barrenness to you with my empty cup uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment. If only I had known […]
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Stan’s Corner, Saturday, November 19, 2011
Yesterday, I mentioned that Terri Goldich won her election by 30 votes, but what I forgot to tell you was her wonderful story about a prayer shawl. You see, she […]