Faith & Life Inspirational Message

I have had the good fortune of returning to a book I first read a few years ago.   Because of a group that I lead, I am looking again at Gerald May’s book, The Awakened Heart .   The subtitle of the book is revealing: Opening Yourself to the Love You Need .   The book was originally published in 1991, but what May shares is as good as if it were written this year.   May died in 2005, so the good thinking and writing he did has come to an end.   He has formed and informed me spiritually in a number of ways.            When I was reading for another meeting of my group, I found the following paragraph.   It represents the simply, yet profound, way May offers spiritual tidbits.   May begins the paragraph in this fashion.   “When something very nice happens to you or to someone near you, and you come round to celebrating it, there can easily be a double remembrance.”   That is a wonderful sente...

I have no clue when I first heard about a legacy.   I doubt I knew anything about it until college days or even later.   It might have been one of those things I heard about, but it never registers.   I doubt very many young folks pay any attention to those kinds of things.   By the time I was teaching and, especially, doing some fund raising, I became very aware of the idea of legacy.   Only recently and only occasionally have I given any thought to my own legacy. The word, legacy, often is associated with wills that dead people leave and about which the survivors learn in a court session or with the lawyers.   Often, legacies have to do with money and property.   Of course, some people are quite wealthy and their legacies to their heirs are remarkable.   My parents did not fit that category!   They left me and my siblings almost no money or property.   I did not care.   I did not have them as parents to make me wealthy! I...