To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Would you like to hold her?” On a cold winter morning more than 30 years ago, a young mother gently placed the body of her stillborn daughter, carefully wrapped in blankets, into my arms. She had come into the world that morning. And she had left our world that same morning. The Russian novelist Fyodor… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the summer of 1919, the U.S military – less than a year after the end of World War I – undertook a major mission. Their goal was to find out if it was possible to drive from one coast of the United States to the other. Thus was born the Motor Transport… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On March 30, 1981, just 69 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan and members of his entourage were attacked by a lone gunman outside a Washington D.C. hotel. A bullet shattered one of Reagan’s ribs, punctured a lung, and lodged perilously close to his heart. By the time he had been… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Harvey Ross Ball’s most famous artistic creation took just 10 minutes to complete, and it earned him a mere $45. But it’s been worth a billion smiles. In 1963, Ball, a freelance artist guiding his own advertising firm, was approached by the marketing director of State Mutual Life Assurance Company of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s one of the shortest, simplest, and most imaginatively titled animated films of all time. Bambi Meets Godzilla was the solo creation of a young artist named Marv Newland. The 1969 film, which is black-and-white and hand-drawn, lasts a mere 90 seconds. That includes all the credits (in which Newland identifies himself… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When Paul O’Neill was introduced in 1987 as the new CEO of Alcoa, the world’s largest producer of aluminum, market expectations plummeted. O’Neill, after all, was a former government bureaucrat, little more than an obscure policy wonk. He knew next to nothing about the aluminum business. Expectations sank even lower when he took… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, Stephan Pastis – creator of the syndicated cartoon strip Pearls Before Swine – depicted his gentle-hearted character Pig in a theology classroom. His assignment? “Define heaven.” Pig submits this answer: “All the dogs I’ve ever owned rush out all at once and start licking my face as… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Benigno Aquino’s family and friends begged him not to return to Manila. As the exiled leader of the opposition movement to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, he had already been imprisoned for over seven years. Marcos had granted him permission to seek medical care in the United States. Now Aquino, widely known as Ninoy, was… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Many people experience what can only be described as an annual appointment with pain. Every year, when a certain day arrives, the memories associated with those 24 hours come flooding back. It didn’t have to be this way. God could have planted us on a rock that hurtles through space… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 2009 on a rain-slick stretch of Interstate 15 in Idaho, a man by the name of Rich Retallic lost control of his light truck. His vehicle struck the median and overturned. Even though he was wearing his seat belt, the impact tragically took Rich’s life. He was a 62-year-old husband,… Read more »
