Anna Caruso

Many thousands of people, caught in the grasp of some personal tragedy, have said, or least thought: “If God will do so, He can cure me.”  When trouble comes and human solutions fail, most of us think of God.  And our first reaction is the same as that of many people – if God were so inclined, He could solve this problem and set things right. But we are well aware that most personal tragedies do not turn out with a happy ending.  I have known, and so have others, that many people prayed for a deliverance that never came.  […]

A teacher in school asked a ten-year old boy to name three basic food essentials.  And he answered, “Breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Most of us would probably agree with that answer.  We appear to be a well-fed group.  And I would dare say the majority of us eat three good meals a day. Have you ever considered how much of our time is devoted to feeding our bodies?  If we take into account the entire process, it is quite an investment of time.  First, we must earn the money with which to buy food.  Then we must purchase the food, […]

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and we begin the season of Lent.  It is a time for all of us to stop and to reflect and remember   Do you remember those days when you dreamed beautiful dreams?  You were thinking about the wonderful life that was waiting for your over there in the future.  Dreaming is a vital part of living.  Think how impoverished our world would be without dreamers.  Every great human accomplishment is nothing more than a dream come true.  The electric light was once a dream in the mind of Thomas Edison.  The Fifth Symphony was once a […]

Deep inside of every one of us is a “little voice” that speaks to us about matters of right and wrong.  When we anticipate certain actions, the “little voice” says to us that we ought to do this or we ought not do that.  When life is viewed in retrospect, the “little voice” commends us for some things we have done and condemns us for others.  We, of course, call that “little voice” our conscience. Some people make light of it.  Others define it as “an inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking.”  Some others say, “a […]

The Reader’s Digest, some years ago, told the story of a Jewish rabbi who was counseling a man about the role of money in his life.  First, he took the man to his office    window and asked him to look out and report what he saw.  The man reported that he saw streets filled with people, all sorts of people – young, old, rich, poor, black, white, tall, short.  Most of them seemed in a hurry.  Some of them looked worried and lonely and frightened.  Then the rabbi took the man to a mirror and asked him what he now […]