Remarks at Tamzon Melos Memorial

We come into this world with nothing of substance. The first thing given to us is a body. We leave this world with nothing of substance. The last thing taken from us is our body. We are not our body. We cry when we enter this world while everyone else may be smiling....

Toodles in Africa

We took a few photos of my daughter Sarah just outside the village of Iriba here on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Chad. This is one of the tanks that have been abandoned, likely due to lack of fuel, during one of the military advances against the government during...

Bear a smile about with you

Cultivate a cheerful disposition; endeavor, as much as lies in you, always to bear a smile about with you; recollect that this is as much a command of God as that one which says, “Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart.” Let us take the pure gold of...