Each
year as spring approaches, we begin to hear references to hay fever, the allergy to pollen spreading from blossoms and grasses, and, in rural areas, sensitivity to the dust produced when the fields are mowed.
It made no difference to Jesus whether materiality looked ugly or beautiful, placid or stormy, sick or well—he always looked beyond the material appearances to the divine reality.
At
this writing, Kids, a hotly controversial film, which follows the lives of a few teenagers for twenty-four hours in New York City, has been playing in the United States for some weeks.