Soul Food: Week of September 24, 2023

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

Sunday: Ask Dad, he’ll know. Ad in “It’s A Wonderful Life”

Monday: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years. Mark Twain

Tuesday: Whoever is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoever is loving him has hurried his discipline. Proverb

Wednesday: The Prodigal son said to his father upon his belated return: Father, I have sinned against heaven & against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Gospel of Luke

Thursday: But, the father said to his servants: Quick! Bring the best robe & put it on him … let’s celebrate … For this son of mine was dead & is alive again; he was lost & is found.

Friday: We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher, Others

Saturday: Before I got married, I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children & no theories. John Wilmot

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