Children's Prayer: A friend emailed the following description, sounds lovely!

One Sunday the pastor of my (then) church called all the adults up to the front and we all stood in a big circle (small congretation.) Then he had all the children form a corresponding inner circle, rotating and standing before one adult and then another as we prayed for the children whatever was in our hearts. The kids absolutely loved it! They resembled little honeybees, buzzing here and there for their "nectar". It was great!

CS Lewis’s famous statement at the end of The Weight of Glory:
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long, we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortals, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we live with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. . . . Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

From the CFSF list. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if my students could say the same about me?"

"What gave [Francis] extraordinary personal power was this; that from the Pope to the beggar, from the Sultan of Syria in his pavilion to the ragged robbers crawling out of the wood, there was never a man who looked into those brown burning eyes without being certain that Francis Bernardone was really interested in him, in his own inner individual life from the cradle to the grave; that he himself was being valued and taken seriously, and not merely added to the spoils of some social policy or the names in some clerical document...He treated the whole mob of men as a mob of Kings."

-- G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi (1923)

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it because you get up first. Then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."

The husband said, "You are in charge of the cooking around here and you should do it because that is your job. I can wait for my coffee."

She replies, "No, you should do it. It's in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."

Husband replies, "I can't believe that. Show me."

So she fetched the Bible and opened the New Testament and shows him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says..... "HEBREWS."