Soul Food: Week of July 16, 2023

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

Sunday: We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Orson Welles

Monday: … [YET] no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

Tuesday: Dust you are and to dust you will return to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7

Wednesday: Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. Jesus

Thursday: Jesus to the Good Thief who believed in Him: “Today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Friday: Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head & listen to silence. To have no yesterday & no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde

Saturday: The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

Davd Soul