Day of Promise

by Montgomery, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9781558964198
• ISBN10: 1558964193
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Skinner House Books

Summary

An eloquent collection of forty years worth of inspirational writing by ministers and lay-people alike. Each reading, whether personal or public, aptly captures an aspect of the religious life -- gratitude, forgiveness, social commitment, freedom of conscience or simple devotion.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
BEAT OF LIFE
Beat of Life	3	(1)
Arthur Graham
The Need to Be Still	4	(1)
Robert T. Weston
More Than We Deserve	5	(1)
Robert R. Walsh
Picking Blackberries	6	(1)
Lynn Ungar
The Teaching Bean	7	(2)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Morning	9	(1)
Clinton Lee Scott
Song	10	(1)
Carl Seaburg
Shaky Skaters	11	(1)
Jane Ranney Rzepka
Waitressing in the Sacred Kitchens	12	(3)
Meg Barnhouse
The Unexpected Stairway	15	(1)
Barbara Rohde
Boundlessness	16	(2)
Willi Barbour
Summer's End	18	(1)
Anthony Friess Perrino
Like Singing in the Bathtub	19	(2)
Bruce T. Marshall
Dog Days	21	(1)
Gary A. Kowalski
The Shirk Ethic	22	(1)
Richard S. Gilbert
Patience and Silence	23	(4)
Charles A. Gaines
MORE HUMAN THAN OTHERWISE
We Are All More Human Than Otherwise	27	(2)
Richard S. Gilbert
Reflection	29	(1)
Paul N. Carnes
If Love Be There	29	(1)
Robert T. Weston
Words	30	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
A Litany of Restoration	31	(1)
Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
A Friendly Ice-Cream Baby	32	(2)
David O. Rankin
Sufficiency	34	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Some Wishes for You	35	(1)
Charles S. Stephen
For My Friends Who Are Wounded	36	(1)
Barbara Rohde
The Boy Was Young	37	(1)
Rudolph W. Nemser
Contact	38	(1)
Gordon B. McKeeman
The Blessings of Age	39	(2)
Barbara Rohde
Prayer for Those Gathered in Worship	41	(1)
Barbara Pescan
Ought To	42	(1)
J. Donald Johnston
Forgiveness	43	(2)
Sara Moores Campbell
When My Anger's Over	45	(1)
Raymond John Baughan
Prayer in Action	45	(1)
Jane Ellen Mauldin
Traditional Marriage	46	(3)
Meg Barnhouse
Speech Stammers to Tell	49	(4)
Raymond John Baughan
FAULT LINE
Fault Line	53	(1)
Robert R. Walsh
En Route to Death	54	(1)
Robert T. Weston
The Legacy of Caring	55	(1)
Thandeka
Thanks to the Friendly, Familiar	56	(2)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Autumn Speaks	58	(1)
Robert T. Weston
Essential Wisdom	59	(1)
Charles S. Stephen
Legacy	60	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
The Idiocy of Flight	61	(1)
Jane Ranney Rzepka
Heaven in a Wildflower	62	(1)
David O. Rankin
Comfort Ye My People	63	(2)
Barbara Rohde
She Speaks of Death	65	(1)
Barbara Pescan
A Time to Cry	66	(1)
David O. Rankin
The Cost	67	(1)
Dorothy N. Monroe
Let Me Die Laughing	68	(1)
Mark Morrison-Reed
Because We Mean It	69	(1)
Robert Marshall
When Life Is Messy	70	(5)
Richard S. Gilbert
IT TOUCHES US
I Say It Touches Us	75	(1)
Marni P. Harmony
The Web of Life	76	(1)
Robert T. Weston
You Be Glad at That Star	77	(2)
Clarke Wells
A Baptism	79	(1)
Robert R. Walsh
O Mystery!	80	(2)
Robert T. Weston
Preface	82	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Prayer	82	(2)
J. David Scheyer
Emergent Life	84	(1)
Robert T. Weston
A Trilobite Poet	85	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
For Humility	86	(1)
Paul N. Carnes
The Restlessness of Thought	87	(1)
Robert T. Weston
Silence	88	(1)
Clinton Lee Scott
As We Spoke	89	(1)
Rudolph W. Nemser
Perseids	90	(1)
Gary A. Kowalski
A Common Destiny	91	(2)
David H. Eaton
The Growing Season	93	(1)
Sara Moores Campbell
Gratitude	94	(1)
Max A. Kapp
Hawks	94	(5)
Lynn Ungar
IT MATTERS
It Matters	99	(2)
Robert R. Walsh
Circles of Self-Encapsulation	101	(2)
Richard A. Kellaway
To Outgrow the Past	103	(1)
William Laurence Sullivan
Transcending Boundaries	104	(1)
Yvonne Seon
Prophets	105	(1)
Clinton Lee Scott
The Glove in the Subway	106	(2)
Jane Ranney Rzepka
Incarnation	108	(1)
David O. Rankin
On the Art of Waiting	109	(1)
Charles White McGehee
Dark and Light, Light and Dark	110	(2)
Jacqui James
Anxiety	112	(1)
Arthur Graham
This Day Is Mine	112	(1)
Raymond John Baughan
I Do Not Pray	113	(2)
James Madison Barr
Each of Us Is an Artist	115	(1)
Arthur Graham
Gentleness in Living	115	(2)
Richard S. Gilbert
Meditation on the Word	117	(1)
Paul N. Carnes
All This Talk of Saving Souls	118	(1)
Linda M. Underwood
The Magician	119	(2)
Clarke Wells
Take Time To Listen	121	(4)
Robert T. Weston
DAY OF PROMISE
Day of Promise	125	(1)
Robert T. Weston
New Year for Trees	126	(1)
Greta W. Crosby
Palm Sunday	127	(1)
Jane Ranney Rzepka
Prayer at Easter	128	(1)
Clarke Wells
In Spring	129	(1)
George C. Whitney
Arbor Day	130	(1)
Gary A. Kowalski
Mother's Day	131	(2)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Give Thanks	133	(1)
Libbie Stoddard
When Giving Thanks Comes Hard	134	(1)
Robert Mabry Doss
Autumnal Invitation	135	(1)
Elizabeth Tarbox
Important Notice	136	(2)
Jane Ranney Rzepka
All I Want for Christmas	138	(1)
David S. Blanchard
In Our Practiced Pessimism	139
Paul N. Carnes