new beginnings
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God and the comma
Some of the wisest advice I’ve heard came from comedienne Gracie Allen. Toward the end of her life, in her final love letter to her husband, George Burns, she wrote, “Never place a period where God has placed a comma.” After every mountaintop experience, there’s a comma and the hard return to the ordinary. And Continue reading
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At the gate of the year
In the dark, uncertain days of late 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, England’s King George VI wanted to encourage his nation, so in his Christmas message he read a poem, “God Knows” (also known as “The Gate of the Year”), by Minnie Louise Haskins, an almost unknown teacher at the London Continue reading
The Sauntering Pilgrim 