There is a story toId concerning a lone religious pilgrim with a staff, a cowl, a long beard and a haggard look. Stopped at a fork in the road, the religious seeker faces a sign. One arrow points toward "The meaning of life." Another arrow points in the opposite direction toward "Cheese and crackers." Thomas H. Troeger, from the "Body" issue of The Living Pulpit, April-June 2006 says the following: If that pilgrim believes in the Incarnation, he will not hesitate for a second. He will head straight for the cheese and crackers, where others will be gathered to eat and to talk, and perhaps to sing and to dance. The Incarnation affirms that the meaning of life is not an abstract concept, not a

Do you remember that first writing project you usually got from your teacher when you returned to school in the Fall? I can't recall how many times, I had to address the question in the title of my article when I was a kid returning to school. I don't know about you, but it was tempting to use the same story as last time I had to do this monotonous task so I could save myself some valuable "free time," and hope that one of my classmates wouldn't "rat me out." Most of the time, we didn't go on a family vacation. Oh sure, I had some memorable trips like going to California, Disneyland, and Tijuana, Mexico one summer. And there was that one time when making another journey to California that we

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I was reading an article recently about someone who wrote about a person who ran a marathon and their thoughts on doing such a demanding thing. Denise Helm in her writing, "Why run if it hurts," said this, "Would a marathon be as delicious, or delirious to finish, if it was easy? Of course not." She continues, "As [marathon runner Chris] Kelly says: Running builds character because it is difficult, and because many of the virtues can neither be exhibited nor developed in the absence of hardship." "So, I'm re-examining my relationship with pain, as I know I will be running many kilometers with that devil. I tell myself that pain is a sensation; it doesn't have to be bad. It depends how it i

As a kid my Mom and other well meaning adults said to me that phrase that many of you may remember, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me." They thought this would help me to deal with the bullies of my childhood. Yeah, words hurt then and still do now. The trouble with that phrase today is that "bullies" have become much more sophisticated with the addition of social media — websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. They have also found other means to elicit fear and power upon those they bully by using words of hate, violence, dehumanization, and racist language to produce fear and power over them. Words of hate and labeling still hurt. However, the

When was the last time you looked at all your clothes in your closet or your drawers and wondered why you have so many clothes? Do you find a shirt, pants, blouse, dress, or coat that you can't remember the last time you wore it? And when you can't remember when you last wore said clothing did you try to reason to yourself why you should keep said item? Yeah, me, too. It has been reported that we have a clothing problem in the United States. However, it is not about an outdated shirt or tie or dress that you hope will come back into fashion, but it is about what we do with the clothes we no longer wear. According to Trey Granger ("Recycling Mystery: Clothing," earth911.com, August 8, 2018.),