Letter from the Pastor

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and we begin the season of Lent.  It is a time for all of us to stop and to reflect and remember   Do you remember those days when you dreamed beautiful dreams?  You were thinking about the wonderful life that was waiting for your over there in the future.  Dreaming is a vital part of living.  Think how impoverished our world would be without dreamers.  Every great human accomplishment is nothing more than a dream come true.  The electric light was once a dream in the mind of Thomas Edison.  The Fifth Symphony was once a […]

Deep inside of every one of us is a “little voice” that speaks to us about matters of right and wrong.  When we anticipate certain actions, the “little voice” says to us that we ought to do this or we ought not do that.  When life is viewed in retrospect, the “little voice” commends us for some things we have done and condemns us for others.  We, of course, call that “little voice” our conscience. Some people make light of it.  Others define it as “an inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking.”  Some others say, “a […]

The Reader’s Digest, some years ago, told the story of a Jewish rabbi who was counseling a man about the role of money in his life.  First, he took the man to his office    window and asked him to look out and report what he saw.  The man reported that he saw streets filled with people, all sorts of people – young, old, rich, poor, black, white, tall, short.  Most of them seemed in a hurry.  Some of them looked worried and lonely and frightened.  Then the rabbi took the man to a mirror and asked him what he now […]

Today is the last Sunday of January and each of us is one month older.  To some, that is good news.  To others, it is not.  For many people there was a time in life when were complimented if someone guessed our age to be more than it was.  Now we are complimented when someone thinks our age to be less than it is.  Somewhere along the way, a transition took place.  But when did it happen?  Most of us do not remember.  We only know that it did. Our attitude toward aging is an interesting thing.  We live in […]