The Process of Repentance   August 3, 1958

One great relief in life is the unburdening that comes with sincere contriteness for offenses, and sincere resolve to make amends. It is a restoring, healing, renewing process, this process of...

Repenting… Forgiving… Forgetting   July 27, 1958

In moving through life we all tend to pick up some prejudices, some resentments, perhaps some sense of injury at times, some feelings that we have been offended. And sometimes we hug these hurts,...

Things for Which We Don't Personally Pay   July 20, 1958

One of the sobering considerations of life would be an appraisal of the things we have for which we didn’t personally pay a price. We may sometimes seem fearful that we are imposed upon, that...

We Can't Go With Them…   July 13, 1958

We go through some interesting cycles in this life we live. Our children arrive helpless in infancy, completely dependent upon us. We love and cherish and nurture them, and in large measure control...

The Partnership of Parents   July 6, 1958

In commenting on the partnership of his parents, an eminent and grateful son once said: “Never in all my boyhood did they fail to stand together on any question which affected the children. We...

Freedom--So Rare, So Precious, So Perishable   June 29, 1958

May we turn a moment or two to freedom — that freedom which relatively so few in all this world have had, yet which is so essential to the full and effective living of life; that freedom for which...

Choosing the Parents of Our Children   June 22, 1958

All of us make choices every day — choices as to what we do with every hour and every opportunity. And we are constantly faced with contrasts: We turn down or yield to temptations. We keep or we...

He Gave Me a Good Mother…   June 15, 1958

A grateful daughter had this to say concerning her once famous father: “He transmitted to me a sound heredity on his own side, and he gave me a good mother.”1 And then she added:...

Marriage--and the Simple Doing of Duty   June 8, 1958

Duty isn’t a word that is always quite comfortable or convenient. But the free and easy making of marriages, and the free and easy undoing of them by divorce, suggest, for the sake of all...

To Keep Learning…   June 1, 1958

We have previously cited this quoted sentence: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Now we should like to...

All We Could Ask of Heaven…   May 25, 1958

Some thoughtful words of Addison suggest a subject: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” In other words we...

To Know Where They Are…   May 18, 1958

A Mother's Love Outlives Them All   May 11, 1958

Blessedly, in the lives of most of us, there are saving and safeguarding influences moving in the background, molding and mellowing and maturing us—influences of which we are often unaware. And one...

Intent--a Sure Test of Friendship…   May 4, 1958

We have talked of friends and friendship and of the fact that no true friend would ever lead us into temptation, or to the making of memories that we would later be less than thankful for. With...

Friend--a Word of Much Meaning   April 27, 1958

“Friend” is a word of much meaning. Sometimes it is applied loosely to mean simply someone we know, someone with whom we have become acquainted. But a friend is much more than merely...

Not Into Temptation…   April 20, 1958

In a talk to young men and boys, a well-known athlete made this comment on a compelling question: What would we thank other people for later in life? We wouldn’t thank them for tempting us to...

Beginning to Be…   April 13, 1958

We often speak of things we would like to do—or like to be. But so often, it seems, there is some distance between where we are and where we wish we were, and it takes effort to cover any distance...

To Be Born--or to Rise Again…   April 6, 1958

Here we are alive, on a planet suspended in space—a beautiful and wondrous one, with sunrise and sunset, and seedtime and harvest, and the changing seasons; and all that grows, and all that moves...

With What Judgment Ye Judge…   March 30, 1958

Against Every Irritation   March 23, 1958

In all the relationships of life, in all relationships with people, there are times that are rich and rewarding, and times that are tense and trying. This is true at home; it is true where we work;...