How history is recited matters almost as much as what happened When someone as talented as Shakespeare tells your tale the image stays fixed But I that am not shaped for sportive tricks Nor made to court an amourous looking-glass I that am rudely stamp rsquo d and want love rsquo s majestyTo stru

Hamlet expires saying ldquo The rest is silence rdquo nbsp When someone dies a stillness descends nbsp However feebly he might have communicated to us even a moment before mdash with a gesture or a sigh mdash the soul of the other enters a silence in death nbsp It rsquo s so final so abs

Hearing a vocational story is similar to asking someone how he fell in love.

Christianity directly assaults the distinction between the holy and the mundane.

A Palm Sunday reflection on the importance of regret

Waiting is the hardest Why Because if you rsquo re waiting you know that something is coming You rsquo re not blissfully ignorant Yet if you rsquo re waiting you don rsquo t truly know what is coming what it will be like That rsquo s why waiting is so difficult often worse than the moment

Interesting phrase ldquo It rsquo s just your imagination rdquo We use it to tell another that her fears spring from her mind rather than reality as though the two weren rsquo t intertwined Fears are part world part whimsy That rsquo s true as well of inventions and inspirations They begin

Here is how Chris Kyle introduces himself in the opening of his autobiography American Sniper 2013 Many will come to know him as he is portrayed by Bradley Cooper in the blockbuster movie of the same name Every story has a beginning Mine starts in north-central Texas I grew up in small towns w

The River Thames froze in January of 1649 nbsp The King asked Thomas Herbert the Parliamentarian official attending him to dress him in two shirts lest the rabble watching him die think that he shivered from cowardice Charles insisted ldquo I fear not death Death is not terrible to me bl

Can nature be more rarified than in a rainbow Earth donates water droplets Sunlight supplies the rest A rainbow is the most ethereal element of God rsquo s creation Small wonder it was chosen to be the sign of God rsquo s covenant In the presence of water light is reflected refracted dispers