Wake Up!
A number of years ago someone put together a combined list from the Bureau of Safety Statistics and The National Transportation Safety Board reporting the following U.S. annual accidental death
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Tear Down Those Walls
Two men sitting next to each other on a flight struck up a conversation. “What do you do?” asked one. “I’m a rancher,” the other replied, “What do you do?”
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Peace and Brotherhood Now!
There is a tendency throughout life to search for the easy way of doing things. We all search for that elusive “Easy Street.” In fact, in Honolulu, Hawaii, if you
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Today is the Day!
A man had been bitten by a mad dog and it looked as if he were going to die. The treatment for rabies wasn’t working. The doctor told him he
A Beautiful Gift of Light
Twenty-seven hundred years ago, King Ezechia had a real problem because Jerusalem’s water supply was outside the city’s walls. This made the people of Jerusalem very vulnerable to enemy attacks,
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The Hardest Thing Of All
As a University student hurried to her two-hour, final exam in chemistry, she encountered one of the campus chaplains. She immediately stopped and said to him, “Will you pray for
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The Trouble With Us!
A woman answered her telephone. She hardly had time to say “Hello” when a man’s voice, dripping with repentance, began reciting a lengthy list of regrets: “Darling, I’m so sorry.
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Because God Is Love
A duck, a rabbit and an eagle enrolled in an animal school which held classes in swimming, running and flying. The duck already was an excellent swimmer, so it went
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Keep Working On Love
There is a very moving story about a plane crash of several years ago in which a small boy was the sole survivor. All of the other passengers were killed
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Live Wisely!
In Matthew’s account of the Wise Men’s journey to Bethlehem in today’s Gospel, we read: … there in front of them was the star they had seen rising; it went
Don’t Just Sit There!
A few hours before setting out to sea, the captain and the first mate of a large commercial ocean liner had a bitter argument. During the heated conversation, the captain
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One Man’s Family
Oh my friend, do not have children! You bring them into the world and they send you out of it. You give them life, and they give you your death
A Gift We Will Love
It was December 22nd and the mother of several children suddenly realized that she hadn’t sent out any Christmas cards. In dismay, she sent her 10-year-old son to the drugstore
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Don’t Forget The Baby!
A woman named Betty tried to cram all of her Christmas preparations into a single day. Starting at 9 a.m., she shopped her entire Christmas list, bought a Christmas tree
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It’s Time To Move On
One Sunday morning a certain country preacher opened a sermon on faith with these words: My dear brothers and sisters, your fields are drying up and you have come here
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Take A Flying Leap
On his return from a trip into the wilds, a birdwatcher told this story of an encounter with a bear… I was hiking through the woods, he said, and came
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Reset Your Clock
There once was a small iron-working town where the mills were kept running day and night. The great steam-hammers, some of them weighing several tons, were night and day beating
Someday?
A woman arrived at a prayer meeting which was already in progress … She spotted a vacant chair and asked the man who was sitting next to it, ìIs this
Well Done!
A popular preacher once delivered a sermon entitled ìGodís Ownershipî … Later that day he was invited to the home of a rich parishioner. The wealthy man conducted the preacher
To Cry Out, ìNo!î
When a new parish church was built in an upper middle class suburb, Sunday mornings in the immediate neighborhood were no longer as quiet as they used to be …
