“Your Departed Loved Ones Are Alive” Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church 9601 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19114 (215) 637-5225 Written 5 November 2000 A doctor called on a man who was seriously ill. As the doctor was about to leave, the patient said, “Doctor, I’m afraid […]
(~) The Golden Rule A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-li got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Li-li was angered by many of her […]
Revealed: the male biological clock Men who start families in their forties and fifties are more likely to have a child with schizophrenia than younger fathers, scientists have claimed. In the first link to a father’s age and the incidence of mental illness in his offspring, researchers suspected that deteriorating sperm quality was to blame. […]
PAIRS Relationship Revival/Survival Tips Most of us want to be in love, and to make our loving relationships lasting and fulfilling. Here are 14 tips developed by the Falls Church, Virginia-based PAIRS Foundation which can help your relationship today, and everyday. We hope you’ll share these tips with your partner. First, foremost and always – […]
Love or Infatuation? Infatuation is instant desire. It is one set of glands calling to another. Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows, one day at a time. Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity. You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts, […]
Letting Go . . . To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. To “let go” is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization I can’t control another. To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To “let […]
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower That grows in the garden of God. It climbs from weekness to knowledge and power, To the sky from the clay and the clod. To beauty and sweetness it grows under care; Neglected ’tis ragged and wild, ‘Tis a plant that is tender and wondrously rare, […]
The moon is full once in a while. It has that ability. And it can be many other sizes, depending on where it rests in relation to the earth and the sun. Romantic humans tend to enjoy the moon regardless of its size or shape. We have unconditional acceptance for the moon. We don’t even […]
PAIRS Relationship Revival/Survival Tips Most of us want to be in love, and to make our loving relationships lasting and fulfilling. Here are 14 tips developed by the Falls Church, Virginia-based PAIRS Foundation which can help your relationship today, and everyday. We hope you’ll share these tips with your partner. First, foremost and always – […]
1. I HAVE A RIGHT … to all the good times that I have longed for all these years and didn’t get. 2. I HAVE A RIGHT … to joy in this life, right here, right now – not just a momentary rush of euphoria but something more substantive. 3. I HAVE A RIGHT … […]