Reading at a Wedding The Blessing of the Hands. These are the hands of your best friend - young and strong and full of love for you - that you are holding on this, your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, …
Virgil’s Corner #30
AUTUMN MUSINGS What is this feeling when Autumn winds begin to blow? Sending leaves of summer past swirling to and fro… tossing, twisting, tumbling in the air as they break away from trees they once called home. Some ready, …
Virgil’s Corner #29
A WAY TO LOOK AT LIFE Once all the villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an umbrella. That is Faith. When you throw babies in the air, they laugh because …
Virgil’s Corner #28
A RAINY AFTERNOON They fall….and fall…and fall… Silver drops…tiny drops… But…so many… They plummet from the high above…from.. Clouds that gave them birth… They fall and fall and fall Through the …
Virgil’s Corner #27
A Woman Named Bobbee "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree." The words of Joyce Kilmer. Bobbee loved trees. Confronted by the sight of green leafy branches set against the blue skies of summer, she …
Virgil’s Corner #26
Lessons from a Wedding Not long ago, my wife, Shawn, and I attended the wedding of the son of some long time friends. I have always loved weddings for they provide the opportunity to see so much love and joy and so much …
Virgil’s Corner #25
MAKING NUMBERS COUNT I am reading a book. It is about numbers. Big numbers. Thousands, millions and billions of numbers. Its premise is that when numbers grow so big it is impossible for our brains to comprehend them. The …
Virgil’s Corner #24
A Simple Act It is a life that almost wasn't. He was born in 1927, three months premature. Most people thought the baby would not live. Desperate and afraid, the mother sought out a fortune teller. She predicted the little …