Walt Albritton Articles

Stop worrying before it kills you

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Robert Frost famously said, “The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”So, if worrying can kill us, it will not be a waste of time to reflect on the nature of worry and decide to stop worrying before...

The healing gift of understanding

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Understanding may be the best thing one person can offer another person. There are moments in life when nothing is more important than having someone understand how you feel and forgive you for something wrong you have done.I can testify...

The healing gift of understanding

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Like most Americans, our family came together to celebrate Thanksgiving. It seems a good thing that the fourth Thursday of every November is set aside by our nation as a holiday to give thanks for our blessings. It is indeed a healthy...

Imagination’s value

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Gene Moore, my dear friend from Auburn days, lives with his wife Jan in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Like me, Gene is a nonagenarian, both of us having lived beyond our octogenarian years. (“Nona” comes from the Latin word meaning “the...
My Boat Is So Small

My Boat Is So Small

RELIGION — It was a simple statement. On a plaque in a friend’s office. Just 13 words: “O God, Thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.” I...

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My Boat Is So Small

I Went to the Cemetery

RELIGION — It was her birthday, June 4. She would have been 91. My son Tim, a forester, took me to the cemetery — the old one, in Wetumpka, our...

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Life’s Sacred Moments

Life’s Sacred Moments

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Books have been a wondrous source of blessing in my life. None more than the Holy Bible. It tops my list of valuable...

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Life’s Sacred Moments

Shouting and Singing

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — In the beginning my preaching was so poor that some people were going to sleep before I got halfway to the...

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Life’s Sacred Moments

A Captivating New Idea

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — I love discovering a captivating new idea, like the one I found in “Resilient,”  John Eldredge’s recent book — that...

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Life’s Sacred Moments

Hold On!

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — When I was young, I read Thor Heyerdal’s “Kon-Tiki,” a true adventure story of five men who survived a dangerous...

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My Boat Is So Small

Don’t Cry for Me

RELIGION — Upon the death of his mother, the Dutch priest Henri Nouwen wrote a little book titled “In Memoriam.” It is an intimate account of the...

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Life’s Sacred Moments

How Blessed Are You?

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — A friend asked me if I had travel plans for the summer. I laughed and said, “Yes, I’m planning to drive over to...

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