by Morning Reflections | Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 has been a dumpster fire.This week an Indianapolis resident hauled a dumpster into his front yard and invited his neighbors to record their feelings about the current calendar year. Some scrawled “good riddance.” Others recorded jokes, jingles, and...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
People from all walks of life and every kind of circumstance end up writing Christmas carols.Even burned-out preachers.In 1849, a Massachusetts pastor named Edmund Sears suffered an emotional breakdown. He wasn’t just bone-weary from laboring for seven years to lead...
by Morning Reflections | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
What the world needs now is hope. That’s not as catchy a song title as Burt Bacharach’s What the World Needs Now is Love. And the Beatles never wrote a rock anthem titled All You Need is Hope. But we live in a dream-shattering, hope-crushing...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Maya Angelou’s life did not have a hopeful beginning. At the age of eight she was sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Maya told her brother what had happened. The boyfriend was apprehended. Incredibly, he was jailed for...
