Cornerstone United Methodist Church

Hello Cornerstone Family,

Mark 4:35-41

John Wesley could hardly have been called a faint-hearted stay-at-home. But there were times when even he lost his nerve. During one of Wesley’s several Atlantic crossings, a frighteningly fierce storm broke out, pitching and tossing the ship about like a bathtub toy.

Hello Cornerstone Family,

“I never knew what happiness was until I got married, but then it was too late.”

“Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to spend the rest of one’s life in an institution.”

Without the lumps and bumps, woes and warts of marriages, stand-up comics would starve.

Hello Cornerstone Family,

As the staff and I prepare for our church’s annual Council on Ministries planning retreat I have found myself thinking of Thomas Merton in a February 21, 1966 letter to friend Jim Forest (Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters, Harper One, 2008): “Do not depend on the hope of results.