Good morning, everyone. A very cordial welcome to Moments of Melody, five minutes of pearls and parables to help you begin your day. William Lyon Phelps was called the most beloved professor in America. He's also been former president of Yale University. Once he made this interesting statement, I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women. But I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible. Yes, the Bible, God's Word, is more valuable than the best college course in the world. And it's available to all. Now for a few moments of melody. If we could see beyond today at watch and see, If all the clouds would go away, the shadows be, The treadless For many joys are waiting yet For you and me If we could see, if we could know we are But God in love availed us through a cross our way. We cannot And so we bring to Him the Lord. Here are a few verses from the sacred scriptures to help you begin your day. We're reading from the translation of Monsignor Ronald Knox. This translation has the imprimatur of Francis Cardinal Spellman. The Gospel according to St. John chapter one, verse one. At the beginning of time the Word already was, and God had the Word abiding with him, and the Word was God. He abode at the beginning of time with God. It was through him that all things came into being, and without him came nothing that has come to be. In him there was life, and that life was the light of man. And the light shines in darkness, a darkness which was not able to master it. A man appeared sent from God whose name was John. He came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, so that through him all men might learn to believe. He was not the light, he was sent to bear witness to the light. There is one who enlightens every soul born into the world. He was the true light. He through whom the world was made was in the world, and the world did not recognize him. He came to what was his own, They who were his own gave him no welcome. But all those who did welcome him, he empowered to become the children of God, all those who believe in his name. Their birth came not from human stock, not from nature's will or man's, but from God. You've been listening to Moments of Melody, five minutes to help you begin your day. Tune in again tomorrow morning at this same time for another program.