Herodotus mentioned it in ancient Greece as early as the 5th century, B.C.E; Ponce de Leon went looking for it in Florida in 1513; and in the twentieth century, Este Lauder made a fortune from devotes desiring it. Still, no one has discovered the Fountain of Youth. As hard as we may reach for it, …
We want to know that in the end, there is something beyond the end. We desire some assurance that when that Abyss finally creeps to our doorstep, we will somehow be able to step over it into the beyond, into an Everlasting that’s kind and good to us. A dear lady in my church spoke …
Engaging in elaborate schemes to hide secrets can quickly evolve into a full-time occupation. Cover-ups can be exhausting. Some are on a grand scale, secrets that, when exposed, affect thousands, as in the Watergate variety, (“Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe,” pined Richard Nixon, when it was all over.) Or, hidden maneuvers …