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...Zeoli began sending him a weekly devotional memo that would be waiting on Ford's desk on Monday mornings. It always had the same title - "God's Got a Better Idea" - and began with scripture (always from the King James version, Ford's preferred translation) and ended with a prayer. Zeoli sent 146 devotionals in all, every week through Ford's presidency. "Not only were they profound in their meaning and judicious in their selection," Ford said, "I believe they were also divinely inspired." Beyond the memos, Zeoli and Ford would meet privately every four or five weeks for prayer...
...Ford did have a private source of spiritual sustenance, which was in every way different from Nixon's public displays of piety. For years Ford faithfully attended a weekly late-morning prayer session with several friends in the House: John Rhodes of Arizona, Mel Laird of Wisconsin and Al Quie of Minnesota. The sessions, which began in 1967 and continued off and on through 1975, were "very quiet," totally off the record, Ford said. Talk about going to Bible study, he worried, and people will get the idea that you think you're somehow better than they...
...easier to understand the pardon when you reckon with the prayers. The question of what to do about Nixon landed hard on Ford from moment he was sworn in. Apart from everything else, Nixon was a longtime friend. Ford worried about what putting the disgraced President in prison would do to him, as well as to a country so shaken by the betrayals of those years. Mercy and healing were very much on Ford's mind on Saturday, Aug. 31, when he spent the morning discussing an amnesty plan for Vietnam draft evaders. When the meeting was over, Ford went...
...Winter's Night" is another lonely-in-the-cold ballad - "If I could only have you near / To breathe a sigh or two / I would be happy just to hold the hands I love / On this winter's night with you" - that McLachlan treats as both a prayer and a plea. In her take on Joni Mitchell's "River" she gives us a little epiphany. Twice she sings "I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly" - and the second time, she holds the last word for 10 seconds, as it gathers strength, touches...
...Archie C. Epps III: “Harvard can again inspire its students to develop a philosophy of life that brings dignity and honor to human affairs if it signals those values in everything it does.” It is our hope and, dare we say it, our prayer that Harvard will do so, keeping its excellence while regaining its soul...