Few men know each other as Mason do, because few have recurring contacts with one another that goes beyond the casual "Hi" over the backyard fence or a bottle of beer before a TV  set.

Because we know each other more deeply, having invested hours of our  lives together, we tend to care more deeply for each other.  Indeed we give a portion of our hearts to each other so that when one of us passes the bar, they take a part of us with them.  Never forget that each time we meet, we have no guarantee that we will ever meet in life again.  Let us pray for our brothers with troubles, remembering that as we give, so too do we receive in kind.

We observe these days, there seems to be an ideological war between religion and science among some people.  Our founding Fathers from a different age, the age of Enlightenment, were enable to embrace both the notion of a Supreme Being and of Science.  They saw this prospective combining the two as natural, without contradiction.

These days, the unified perspective of the past has largely fractured into the Religionist and the Science types.  Someone said that "intelligence is the ability to hold opposite ideas in mind at the same time."  If so, we of our time are less bright than the Founding Fathers, men of faith and science.  These days, we have fanatics then rather then reasonable men.  The founding Fathers, many of them Masons, were of good will and reason.

It is interesting to note that there is no such thin as an atheist.  An atheist, disbelieving in any type of being superior to himself, places himself at the height of that is.  In short, to him, he is god.  Cool huh?  An atheist, therefore, is a man who venerates a god with feet of clay whom we can view in a mirror.  Kind of a ramshackle god.

Be of good will and if upset, make it momentary in order that your days may be full of light.

The blessing of days to you, My Brothers,

Victor Li

Junior Warden