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Keeping Us from Falling

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Elisha Otis once risked his business, his reputation, and his life with one stroke of an ax. Looking down on the crowd at the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York in 1853, Otis gave the signal to chop the only rope that held him suspended on a platform high above the… Read more »

The Ultimate Catcher

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There are two kinds of trapeze artists: flyers and catchers. Flyers get most of the love. They make amazing leaps. They do somersaults in mid-air.   But as devotional writer Henri Nouwen pointed out, the real heroes are the catchers. In his book Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring, Nouwen writes: … Read more »