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The Cure for Loneliness

The Cure for Loneliness

Loneliness is on the rise in the United States. A recent study by the insurance company, Cigna, found that 3 in 5 Americans report being lonely–feeling left out, misunderstood, lacking companionship. Loneliness is linked to anxiety, depression, heart disease,...
Not a Wing and a Prayer, but a Promise

Not a Wing and a Prayer, but a Promise

The 1942 film, Flying Tigers, provided a slogan that would inspire Americans for the war effort in World War II. A pilot whose plane lost a wing, exclaims that he has landed “on a wing and a prayer.” So often when we think about impossible situations we are...
The Spirit Blows Where It Wills

The Spirit Blows Where It Wills

There are moments when you can feel the Holy Spirit. In my experience they don’t happen often, but regularly enough. This month I have had the blessing of feeling that sacred zephyr twice. Once in a toney Westlake Episcopal church and again in a simply...
The Cure for Loneliness

In the Midst of Life We are in Death

One of the old wives’ tales is that death always comes in threes. I am not a big believer in superstitions or folk wisdom, necessarily, but there are times when it seems true. This winter has seen the deaths of many saints at St....
What Prevents You from Starting Over or Beginning Again?

The World Is Too Much With Us

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!… Recently I was attending chapel at our School with the...

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