Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Respect

We spent a wonderful night at The Symphony in the Flint Hills last Saturday night, and during one of the "readings" between musical pieces, the narrator referred to the word "respect". The author stated that to respect means to "look again". I turned to Gary, my resident English guru, and asked it that is really what "respect" means. He said, yes, that spect means to observe, and the prefix re- would mean again.
It made me think again about the word respect in a new way.
To respect God, others, nature, ourselves....we must "look again" and see in a new light.
One of Webster's definitions of respect says: the act of giving particular attention, consideration.
Perhaps our world, our communities, our schools, our churches, our families will become a better place when we truly "respect" each other...when we stop to look again at each other, when we look beyond the surface and see what is really there.
Respect...

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Faith, Hope and Love

"Faith, hope and love are three eternities.
To look up and not down, that is Faith;
to look forward and not back, that is Hope;
and then to look out and not in, that is Love.

-Reverend Edward Everett Hale
Woman's Home Companion, July 1907