February 2021
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Once upon a time, the country was in trouble, and a shoemaker and his wife fell upon hard times. Then came the day when the shoemaker found he had enough leather for only one more pair of shoes. He did not despair, though, but got to work, cut the leather carefully, and started to sew.…
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Rabia of Basra has the distinction of being the first female Sufi mystic in the history of Islam. She lived around 1300 years ago, and one of her stories is about the time a robber broke into her home, and what happened next. The robber broke in, only to find that there was nothing worth…
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I begin this morning by sharing a personal story from years ago, when I was a graduate student working for my Master’s in Philosophy. This was back in the early 1990s, which was a time when my relationship with my Dad was strained, and strange. Once in a blue moon, when we would speak, he…
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