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Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 9, 2025
WISDOM SAYINGS ON A SUNDAY A young Paul Simon wrote wisdom was found written on a bathroom wall. I have stumbled over wisdom in fiction pages, a Mary Oliver verse, and a comment by a friend over coffee. This Sunday I offer informal sayings and comments whenever and wherever you may stumble over my gathered…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 2, 2025
Supportive Thoughts in A Week of Troubles & Challenges Each week may bring news and events of harm and injustice to those who live, work, and worship around us. Destructive weather in Jamaica and Bahamas has changed food, housing, employment for so many. Immature blaming and general lack of compassion has created additional hardships for…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 26, 2025
THESE KEEP MY EYES FORWARD AND MY HEAD UP This week’s Sunday Letter is about the individuals, causes, and life events that Inspire me. This Gives Comfort, and Teaches me what is important for my health, my joy, my marriage, and my experience of the Sacred. Willie Nelson has communicated all of life’s emotions since…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 19, 2025
CREATIVITY AND NOURISHING YOUR CREATIVE GARDEN Julia Cameron has published 20 books…including books of poetry, plays and music about the art of creativity. Her break-out book, “The Artist Way,” introduced the public to Morning Pages. Her insights on creativity are shared in “Walking in This World, The Practical Art of Creativity.” Cameron has inspired me…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 12, 2025
WHO WOULD YOU INVITE TO YOUR TABLE? A Netflix favorite is “Somebody Feed Phil.” This popular food and people show introduces the culture of food, chefs, and cities nationally and internationally. Each episode ends with Phil inviting 6 to 8 food guides and chefs of that episode to share and enjoy a table and meal…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 5, 2025
WISDOM THAT TEACHES, COMFORTS, & CHALLENGES One of Beth’s life enjoyments is finding and copying wisdom quotes and sayings into one of her now five journals. I have lifted today’s writings from one of her journals. I am confident SL readers will find favorites to read more than once, perhaps to write into your own…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for September 28, 2025
THOUGHTS ON FAITH – THEN AND NOW This week’s letter is the third in a series…recent Sunday Letters have been about Crosses, Prayers and Meditation. Faith is the focus for the third in the series. I chose Faith last as it continues to evolve even now as an elder. We are all pilgrims in this…
Roy’s Sunday Letter For September 21, 2025
THOUGTHS AND WRITINGS ON PRAYER AND MEDITATION Most of us, perhaps all of us, seek the best way to live our lives with wisdom, kindness, and joy. Two widely accepted practices to do so are prayer and meditation. Each bring us closer to God, the Divine within our Souls, our family and friends and our…
Roy’s Sunday Letter For September 14, 2025
This Sunday, I invite you to take a deep dive into the Number 3. There are religious, cultural, and scientific research that indicates the significance of the Number 3 in many societies and countries. The Number 3 is mentioned 485 times in the Bible, 75 of these in the New Testament. What are 3 books…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for September 7, 2025
SEPTEMBER IS MORE THAN A TURN OF THE CALENDAR The earlier wintering months gave way to the greening and garden hope of spring. September lifts our spirits from the heat dome of a Southwestern summer. September reminds us there is coolness and rain showers with the turn of calendar pages. September is also a check…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for April 13, 2025
ON BEING A NEIGHBOR Mr. Rogers began the PBS Children’s Show singing “Won’t you be my neighbor? Could you be my neighbor? I really want a neighbor just like you.” Jesus responded to the question “Who is my neighbor?’ With a story of breaking through walls and the rituals that separate us, that kept us…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for April 6, 2025
THE SLOW AND THE BLUR OF CHANGE In the mid-1980’s, I decided to sign-up for a Sierra Club hiking trip in the Colorado mountains. Beginning at base camp in Creed, eight of us hiked Colorado mountains and over the Continental Divide. On day three, I sat in a mountain meadow, with Elk nearby, watching river…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for March 30, 2023
ABOUT TREES “Who plants a tree plants hope” Lucy Larcom “A true meaning of life is planting trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” Nelson Henderson Why write a Sunday Letter about trees? When Beth and I returned to Fort Worth, we experienced the joy of trees of all types, sizes, and…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for March 23, 2025
If you want to hear a bird sing, don’t buy a cage…..Plant a tree A Personal Share: An early Melanoma growth was identified and removed by our Dermatology surgeon. The infection from the surgery moved to my left eye, which became at first swollen, then 90% closed. On a return clinic visit, I was told…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for March 16, 2025
In the midst of perceived darkness, I hold high my candle, saying look, see the path, witness the Hope. Yes, these are challenging days. I am finding, as may we all, my sense of the up and downs of daily life stretched and bent into new shapes by the streaming of the faces, voices, and…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for March 9, 2025
The CEO of Starbucks said he wants Starbucks to be everyone’s “third place,” after home and work. Come with friends, visit, perhaps purchase food and drink, but come and be a part of our place. In a similar way, I would like the Sunday Letter to be an ongoing source of encouragement, support, always with…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for March 2, 2025
FINDING MY PURPOSE IN WRITING THE SUNDAY LETTER 2025 The past weeks have been chaotic, upsetting, and stressful for me, for many of us, perhaps for you too. I stared into a blank screen wondering what I could write about, what would I write about, as well as should I even write or not. After…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for February 23, 2025
NOTES FROM FULL POCKETS I may not be alone in making notes on daily life or maybe even a random thought. In this Sunday Letter I am emptying my pockets of crumbled papers and notes as each might become lost. One topic in our Tuesday Meditation group was Balance, in ways consistent with in and…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for February 16, 2025
A Writing On Pets I am writing a Sunday Letter about the benefit of having a pet, fully understanding not every one’s life is matched to care for a pet or may have a medical situation that prohibits a pet. This Sunday Letter will hopefully be welcomed and enjoyed by readers blessed by our pets,…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for February 9, 2025
A LENTEN SEASON WRITING I attend a writer’s table hosted by Broadway Baptist. We writers were invited to draft a short piece for the individual Sundays of Lent 2025. As a Southern Baptist youth, I am not familiar with, nor practiced the historic rituals of the Lenten Season. For this Sunday Letter readers who also…