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A friend I enjoyed for years, raised in the Presbyterian Church, strongly believed in reincarnation.  Being surprised, I met him when he attended his mother’s funeral in the 1980’s which I conducted.  Living in Florida and later in New York, … Continue reading →

We spend many tax dollars building and maintaining schools.  We spend years learning in primary and secondary schools; then some go on to college, graduate schools, and post-graduate studies.  We read papers and books to learn and expand our ideas, … Continue reading →

Do you really love yourself today?  More than anyone or anything else?  Sounds a bit arrogant, doesn’t it?  Yet it’s the truth!  Unless you can love yourself, you really can’t love anyone else, at least very deeply. How can this be? … Continue reading →

(This sermon was prepared for the Unitarian/Universalist Churches of East Aurora and Hamburg) What do Unitarian/Universalists think or believe about Jesus? Has he been abandoned as no longer relative to this era? Some may feel this way, sort of a … Continue reading →

Earlier this month I attended my first U2 concert at New Era stadium.  With three of my children and great seats, the stadium filled with fans of the 40-year-old popular Irish rock music group. An opening “prelude” came from a … Continue reading →

My 4-year-old granddaughter asked me this yesterday morning.  I had mentioned to her that Gramma and I were getting a new dog in a few weeks, one that will be little, but a little bigger than Carmel, the Dachshund dog … Continue reading →

Can we ever really know God?  Like a friend, or even a lover?  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have and enjoy such a relationship?  I think it is possible and also one of the best things we can enjoy on … Continue reading →

“The world will see me no more, but you will see me….”  John 14:19 Do you often feel lonely?  Perhaps that’s an understatement!  Most do, but we need not, at least for too long.  Studies show Americans are lonely, 300 … Continue reading →