Dr. Larry Pittman Goddard Blog

O Lord, Please bless our friendship. Our friendship is like a long steady soft rain. It's not so harsh that it will destroy. Yet it is not so soft that it goes unnoticed. Our friendship is growing in your grace. Please bless our friendship, and keep it holy at all times. friendship is a gift from you, O Lord, and we thank you. May our friendship always produce the fruits of the spirit. And may the soft rain of our friendship nourish the heart forever Amen! Love to all of you and all you love.

This Fourth of July, look closely at one of those printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. See it? The woman’s name at the bottom? It’s right there. Mary Katharine Goddard. If you’ve never noticed it or heard of her, you aren’t alone. She’s a Founding Mother, of sorts, yet few folks know about her. And some of America’s earliest bureaucrats did their best to shut her down. Same old, same old. Goddard was fearless her entire career as one of America’s first female publishers, printing scoops from Revolutionary War battles from Concord to Bunker Hill and continuing to publish after her offices were twice raided and her life was repeatedly threatened by haters. Yup, she faced down the Twitter trolls of 1776. In her boldest move, Goddard put her full name at the bottom of all the copies of the Declaration that her printing presses churned out and distributed to the colonies. It was the first copy young America would see that included the original signers’ names — and

I've been thinking about images--moments in one's life--that strike the heart and set it blooming like a wild flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that if you spent your whole life searching for and never find.  The images, those moments in life just happen.  Never planned.  Never the way you imagined.  I have many of those images and my heart loves beauty in all forms; the images make my heart grow.  I would not trade for them.  Yet, describing those moments is close to impossible.  You have the same.  I think that is what we will take with our soul--those images of great beauty and touching moments in our lives.  Nothing else truly matters.   Some funnies: The people who need firecracker safety tips aren't the people who read firecracker safety tips.... Always remember and don't ever forget...He who goes forth with a fifth on the Fourth MAY not go forth on the Fifth!  There are two secrets to success in Life.  #1:  Never tell everythi