Sunday Sermonette

"Once there was a grain of sand that wanted to become a beach -- an example of how you can't always do it all by yourself."

~ Robert Brault

Monday Musings #10

It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable, assuming you have another reason to disagree.

The problem with having a friendly debate is that it can lead to some very objectionable people thinking they're your friends.


When asked, "Do you believe in miracles?" a person of faith replied, "I believe in God.  It is the atheist who must believe in miracles."


You can wait for a miracle, but a better strategy is to meet it halfway.


The hardest unhappiness to uproot from our lives is that for which we are holding a paid receipt.


One thing you need never fear in a democracy is ignorance without representation.


Do things while you can and while they matter to you, because neither is a permanent state of affairs.


In an age when manners and civility have gone the way of dressing for dinner, you begin to understand why people dressed for dinner.

~~ Robert Brault

Weekend One-Off

The way you'll know that the U.S. finally has a woman president is that all the jobs the government does will just seem to magically get done.

~~ Robert Brault

Friday Flyer

Today's sad fact:  "You aren't going to change someone's mind who believes it in their headbone."

Personality & Spirituality

~ Robert Brault

Wednesday Wildcard

"No one who has wandered the world alone has ever confused it with traveling."

Songs of Eretz Poetry

~~ Robert Brault

Monday Musings #9

You don't have to believe in an afterlife to believe that there are people gone from this earth you can still make proud of you.

Your Mom Has A Blog

I doubt that you still laugh or cry in the quiet of your grave, but I'm confident that you still worry as a parent.


On the one hand, don't take everything seriously.  On the other hand, don't expect anything to change until you do.


We don't always get the miracle we pray for, but we nearly always get the strength we pray for.


Happiness is always a risk, whereas the unhappiness in our lives tends to be familiar, tolerable and fully paid for.


To be ultimately wise is to know everything, none of it for sure.


As hard as two people may try, it is impossible to travel diverging paths by day and meet back in the same place every night.


To know history is to inherit the ultimate "To Do" list.

As any long-married couple can tell you, there are ways to demonstrate love so subtle that they are undetectable by a third party -- and often by the second party.

~~ Robert Brault

Friday Flyer

If you look like someone who's willing to listen, you hear a lot of explanations owed to other people.

Psychology Today

~ Robert Brault