by Michael Murphy
Sometimes It Takes Two To Accomplish What One Man Cannot Do I grew up on a sixty-acre farm. My chores were to feed the chickens, geese, and ducks. Besides those chores, I had to milk our Guernsey cow twice a day for a quarter of a pail of rich milk, and one experience...
by Michael Murphy
Have you ever thought of writing a Christmas carol? Every year, the radio begins playing Christmas carols earlier and earlier. Whatever music idiom you listen to, along with the classical carols, people write lyrics and melodies that might be sacred, simple, clever,...
by Michael Murphy
Somewhere I read that if you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. A buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without...
by Michael Murphy
Back in about 1990, I was visiting an elderly lady who was in Hospice. I was a Hospice Chaplain at that time. She lived about twenty miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a little village called Dykesville. She was dying of cancer. As we sat in her living room...
