by Susan | Sep 25, 2017 | inspiration
In the Christian New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12-31, Saint Paul creates a metaphor of a diverse community by describing the interrelationship of the parts of the body, much in the same way Aesop did in his fable, The Belly and the Members: Now if the foot should say,...
by Susan | Sep 24, 2017 | folktales, inspiration
Nasrudin was talking to his neighbor one day, and the neighbor lamented, “I’m really having trouble fitting my family in our small house. It’s me, my wife, my three kids, and my mother-in-law-all sharing the same cottage. Mulla Nasrudin, you are a...
by Susan | Sep 23, 2017 | folktales, inspiration
Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are Alone together, scholar and cat Each has his own work to do daily; For you it is hunting, for me study. Your shining eye watches the wall; My feeble eye is fixed on a book. You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse; I rejoice...
by Susan | Sep 22, 2017 | folktales, inspiration
A MORAL Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one. “Down, you base thing!” thundered the Moral Principle, “and let me pass over you!” The Material Interest merely looked in the other’s eyes without saying...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2017 | inspiration, poem
Your ancestors did not survive everything that nearly ended them for you to shrink yourself to make someone else comfortable. This sacrifice is your warcry, be loud, be everything and make them proud.
by Susan | Sep 20, 2017 | inspiration, Week of Compassion
Above: Peace Pals, an after school program for children grades 1st – 5th in the surrounding neighborhood of Divine Redeemer Presbyterian Church, prepared seven buckets of cleaning supplies to send to areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. The program offers an...
A Body, Though One, Has Many PartsSeptember 25, 2017
The Crowded HomeSeptember 24, 2017
Pangur Bán: A Scholar and his CatSeptember 23, 2017
The Moral Principle and the Material InterestSeptember 22, 2017
Poem: “I am my ancestors dream,” by Nikita GillSeptember 21, 2017
