Month: May 2026

Your Heart

Post author By billyschmidt
Post date May 17, 2026
Categories In Poems & Prayers, Uncategorized

The heart is the center of the spiritual life. If the fruit of a tree is bad, you don’t try to fix the fruit; you treat the roots. And if a person’s actions are evil, it’s not enough to change habits; you have to go deeper. You have to go to the heart of the […]

First Paragraph

Post author By billyschmidt
Post date May 7, 2026
Categories In Books

Here’s the first paragraph from what I’m reading now. I, Julian Fabius, an advocate for discretion in all things, should have known better. Take that as a given. But even the best shield can drop with age, weariness, and wine and the truth is I would like my epitaph to be more impressive than “He […]