ldquo Go to the light rdquo That rsquo s what my husband advised as we struggled to find our way out of a big city hospital on a recent Sunday afternoon We rsquo d visited a friend and when we exited an elevator we couldn rsquo t find anyone during weekend hours to point us to the front doors mdash and the brilliant Colorado sunlight Roaming around half-lit hallways we finally encountered a man who saw our confusion ldquo These hallways all look the same rdquo he said ldquo But the exit rsquo s this way rdquo With his directions [... more]

On January the US Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart seventy-three seconds after takeoff In a speech of comfort to the nation President Reagan quoted from the poem ldquo High Flight rdquo in which John Gillespie Magee a World War II pilot had written of ldquo the high untrespassed sanctity of space rdquo and the sense of putting out his hand to touch ldquo the face of God rdquo nbsp Although we can rsquo t literally touch God rsquo s face we sometimes experience a stunning sunset or a place of meditation in nature that gives us an overwhelming sense that [... more]