by ccvadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | News
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,...
by ccvadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 21, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 18, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | News
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...
by ccvadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 218 (April 13, 2021) One of the best parts of Bob Dylan’s 1965 masterpiece “Like a Rolling Stone” is the organ, perhaps the most famous organ sound in the history of rock ‘n roll. It was played by Al Kooper, a 21-year old guitarist who had been...
by ccvadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 217 (April 12, 2021) In his 1983 book Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life the late Catholic priest and scholar Henri Nouwen writes: ““Compassion erases the mistakes of life, just as the rubber end of a pencil removes the smudges on the...
