DEAR EDITOR: It was 1961. I was 10 years old. My father was out of town at a bowling tournament. My mother screamed, calling me to the bathroom. “Get the hol
Sovereign God, it is your will to gather up all things in your beloved one, reigning in the universe in the power that is love, mercifully grant that the whole of creation, freed from slavery, may serve and praise you through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.