Anna Caruso

       For most of us, Christmas is a time of happiness.  We have learned to love everything about it – the music, the lights, the giving and receiving of gifts, the fellowship of friends and family.  Year after year, we anticipate this season with great excitement and remember it with fondness, long after it is gone.         But amid all this happiness, we need to remember that for some people Christmas is the loneliest time of the year.  For some, Christmas festivities remind them of broken relationships, and the togetherness of others serves to accentuate their own sense […]

          It is a fact that we can never really know where we are unless we have an awareness of where we have been. It is foolish to try to go back and live in the past. But it is an act of wisdom to remember it, reflect on it, and learn from it.            Any accurate inventory of the past will include some happy memories.  We should hold on to those and carry them with us from one year to the next. Then when the road gets difficult, as surely it will, we can take out one of those […]

         A little more than 50 years ago Dale Carnegie wrote a book that made him a very wealthy man. The tile of it is “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” It has since been published in every major language of the world and has sold multiplied millions of copies. The popularity of the book lies in the fact that it recognizes and deals with a very real human need – that is the necessity to relate to other people.         Of course, Dale Carnegie was not the first to recognize that need.  […]

          It is a commonly known fact that people in the ancient world believed there were many gods.  In the early biblical history, each nation was thought to have its own god, whom they worshipped and upon whom they depended for the necessities of life.             This ancient theology is generally thought to be obsolete.  In our modern, more enlightened age, we now believe in only one God, who is creator and sustainer of all things.  But whether or not that conclusion is true depends upon how we are using the word, God.  If we are speaking of our theological […]