It's one of the dangers of scanning your emails.

The title read, "Honor the Dead by Helping the Living."

I read it as, "Humor the Dead by Helping the Living."

As a verb, "humor" means 1 to comply with the mood or whim of (another); indulge 2 to act in agreement with the nature of; adapt onself to.

What would be the mood of the dead? What would they want to tell us right now? What message would they send us, if they could?

It might be a worthy exercise to imagine the mood of the dead and "humor" them by passing that mood on to the living.

Then we might be more ready when our day comes to join them.

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." --John Updike.

Substitute "nature" with "God," and you have a very true statement.

Reminds me of 2 Thess. 1.11, for some reason.

This good quote from Francis of Assisi:

"When there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter."

What is guarding your house?

Somebody wrote this, no name attributed:

A mission statement is defined as "a long, awkward sentence that demonstrates management's inability to think clearly." All good companies have one.

This site has offered it since the beginning, but just today I downloaded a small program to receive RSS feeds. I'm still getting the hang of it, but it avoids email notices, and people say it's a way to avoid the problems of IP blocking, spam problems, etc. We'll see how it goes.

For a short, sensible explanation, see this explanation. For the long of it, go here:

http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/

One good thing about it: you don't have to give out an email address, no personal information, to subscribe to the feeds.