Daily Word of Grace (April 27, 2021

Daily Word of Grace # 228 (April 27, 2021) Have you ever noticed that the very presence of one person can alter the mood of a whole group?  When that person enters the room everyone knows it.  You either feel the collective blood pressure and anxiety in the room...

Daily Word of Grace (April 26, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 227 (April 26, 2021) The closing song on Taylor Swifts 2017 album reputation is the moving ballad “New Year’s Day” in which she describes what faithful love looks like: “You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi.  I can tell that...

Daily Word of Grace (April 23, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 226 (April 23, 2021) One of the recurring story lines in the hilarious offbeat cult classic 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite is the friendship between awkward high school students Napoleon and Pedro.  After Pedro secures a date for a school dance,...

Daily Word of Grace (April 22, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 225 (April 22, 2021) An often overlooked gem on U2’s masterpiece 1987 album The Joshua Tree is the song “One Tree Hill”, written for a New Zealander named Greg Carroll who met the band in 1984.  They all became great friends and Greg became a...

Daily Word of Grace (April 21, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 224 (April 21, 2021) In his beautiful 2009 novel South of Broad the late Pat Conroy, from the perspective of protagonist Leo King, writes: “At night (my father) would take my brother, Steve, and me out into the boat to the middle of Charleston...