Dear Friends: The decorations for the Christmas breakfast for clients and colleagues were wonderful. Patricia carefully planned the centerpieces with angels and holly illumined by white tapered candles. On the top of the piano she arranged a miniature forest of red and green wooden trees interspersed with small candles in star-shaped holders. On the morning […]
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A Word of Grace – December 5, 2011
Dear Friends: The chill betrayed the bright sunshine when hurricane-strength Santa Ana winds blew on the last day of November. High on the roof of the School of Dentistry building, a hungry red-tailed hawk perched, hunched down against the gusts and waited for lunch. I have often heard that hawk’s distinctive “kree-eee-ar” cry and have […]
C.S. Lewis’s Birthday
Today is the 113th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Jack!
A Word of Grace – November 28, 2011
Dear Friends: Reading through Ecclesiastes is like rummaging through the attic of an old home. You never know what treasures might be there. There is a lot of stuff worth pondering in chapter 7 alone like this observation of Solomon — In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish […]
Today Is the 48th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s Death
C.S. Lewis died on November 22, 1963, just seven days shy of his 65th birthday on November 29th. Today is the 48th anniversary of his death, the same day that President John F. Kennedy and writer Aldous Huxley died. In “Living the Legacy” of C.S. Lewis, we at the Foundation don’t seek to idolize the […]