Soul Food: Week of January 2, 2022

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values.

Sunday: A common refrain this time of year is to “Wish Christmas didn’t have to end.” Yet, it needn’t, shouldn’t.

Monday: WE Three Kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar, Field and fountain, Moor and mountain, Following yonder Star … O Star of Wonder, Star of Night, Star with Royal Beauty bright, Westward leading, Still proceeding, Guide us to Thy perfect Light. John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

Tuesday: ‘Tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free, ‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be. Folk song

Wednesday: Time is a Test of Trouble – But not a Remedy – If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady – Emily Dickinson

Thursday: Nobody knows de trouble I’ve had, Nobody knows but Jesus, Nobody knows de trouble I’ve had, Glory hallelu! Spiritual

Friday: Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau

Saturday: It’s been said “there’s no fool like an old fool,” yet a young one can be a piece of work, too. John Heywood paraphrased

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