Daily Word of Grace (April 20, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 223 (April 20, 2021) When my kids were very young one of their favorite books was P. D. Eastman’s Go, Dog, Go! which recounts the adventures all kinds of dogs—racing in cars, running through neighborhoods, riding rollercoasters, swimming, riding...

Daily Word of Grace (April 19, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 222 (April 19, 2021) Shakespeare’s classic play A Midsummer Night’s Dream concludes with this monologue from the sprite Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow): “If we shadows have offended, Think but this—and all is mended—That you have but slumber’d here...

Daily Word of Grace (April 16, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 221 (April 16, 2021) On the uplifting rock classic “Don’t Look Back”, the title track of the 1978 sophomore album by Boston, the late Brad Delp sings: “Don’t look back, a new day is breaking.  It’s been too long since I felt this way.  I...

Daily Word of Grace (April 15, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 220 (April 15, 2021) In his highly acclaimed 2016 novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles writes about Count Alexander Rostov who in 1922 was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life in the Metropol hotel in Moscow.  Rostov creatively...

Daily Word of Grace (April 14, 2021)

Daily Word of Grace # 219 (April 14, 2021) In the last of his thirteen letters in The New Testament, his Second Letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote, “Continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you leaned it, and how from childhood...