Listen to “The Good Commission” by Fred Smith Some blogs are diaries – personal and revealing by making you feel you have been invited into the interior of the author’s life. [...]
Listen to “One Way or Another” by Fred Smith Discoveries made through a mistake, battles lost by a sudden change of wind, unintentional inflection points in a life through a [...]
Listen to “Ears to Hear” by Fred Smith I pray none of my college professors read this late confession. I went to school in a time that valued citations and footnotes – not so [...]
Listen to “On An Even Keel” by Fred Smith A friend asked me, “What do you think your best contribution will be? And for what would you like to be remembered?” I did not need [...]
Listen to “Talking to Elephants” by Fred Smith As a young man stationed in Italy in the Navy I invited my family to come and join me for a tour of the country. One day in Rome [...]
Listen to “Some Larger Way” by Fred Smith Some of you know I have taught a Sunday School class for 40 years. It’s my anchor as much as my pulpit. For much of that time I [...]
Listen to “Do the Next Thing” by Fred Smith Now and then I host what Quakers call a Clearness Committee for an individual working their way through an issue about direction or [...]
Listen to “Is It Too Much To Ask?” It’s not just me but a growing number of people have made comments about a theme running through commencement speeches for the last several [...]
Listen to “More” by Fred Smith Periodically, I think about full retirement and what that might mean. I asked one friend about it, and his response was, “Retire from what? You [...]
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