In Response

• Spirituality and Mental Health by James W. Patterson, Ph.D., 5/7/98
  • What is spirituality by Claire Salisbury, 5/12/98
    • RE:Spirituality by Dale R. Smith, 5/16/98
      
      

Dale,

I am once again touched by you across all these miles and through this depleted connecting medium...Somehow, through words on a page or in a book we meet... and God is there. I'm posting this quote from Elie Wiesel (one of my favoruite quotes) as a gift to you ..

" When man speaks to God there is a dialogue. The creative process is a strange one: it comes from solitude, it goes to solitude and yet it is a meeting between two solitudes. It is just like a man's solitude faced with God's solitude. Once you have this confrontation, you have art and religion and more. You have a certain communion in the best and purest sense of the word. Exactly the same thing happens when you write and someone reads you; your solitude is faced with the reader's and you join with that solitude. When both are sincere, God is there. Whenever one man speaks to another, ultimately he involves God."

Elie Wiesel

• nicely wrapped too .... by Dale R. Smith, 5/17/98