In his own gentle, procrastinating way, Dr. George Harris did much as president of Amherst College, but the unpleasant duties of such a post he neglected or ignored. He was not really opposed to work, but I never heard him say much in favor of it. One autumn he rose in chapel to address the [...]
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Lo, another morning when one particular song was playing loud in my head as I made that transition from sleeping to waking. How is it that in those moments before all the plans for the day start bombarding me, there can come loud some particular song? Actually, for me, it is usually part of [...] “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” –(Rom. 12:21). These are familiar words, I am sure, to all of us. The challenge for me is to stop and figure out what that looks like, not in someone else’s life, in someone else’s adventures, but in my life. What will that look [...] “Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.” –Unknown In His service, Keith “Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether [...] “An old error is always more popular than a new truth.” German proverb There are so many slogans and proverbs and clichés around that I am constantly bombarded by them and don’t even realize it any more. Many I have heard so many times I either forget what they originally were intended for (or I [...] |
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