‘There was a cantankerous old man who lived with his wife in the backwoods. He was so ill-tempered, bad-mouthed, and in all other ways obnoxious and annoying that hardly anyone could stand being around him. One day the old man fell and struck his head against a rock. ‘When his wife found him, he appeared to […]
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Prayer is Great Travail
“From the Lakota [Sioux] Native American tradition comes this parable. It is called The Jumping Mouse Story: They say that one day the Great Wolf was standing by alone and crying.In his sadness, loneliness and pain, he had lost his eyes and was blind. And as the Great Wolf stood there crying, his Little Mouse […]
Prayer is Great Joy
“Bishop Bill Lewis of the Dakotas tells of four bulls deciding what they want to do when they graduate from school. “One bull said, ‘I want to go to Rome and become a papal bull.’ “The second bull said, ‘I want to go to New York City and be a bull of Wall Street.’ “The […]
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