PARTIAL COVERAGE The other day I read this little quip: "You know it's going to be a bad day when you wake up in a hospital in traction and your insurance agent tells you that…
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LIVING BEYOND HARDSHIPS Lord Nelson, England's famous naval hero, suffered from seasickness throughout his entire life. Yet the man who had destroyed Napoleon's fleet did not let illness interfere with his career. He not only…
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. By G.K. Chesterton
WHEN LOVE IS GONE How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she hasn't called the police…
GET RICH QUICK The wolves were wiping out the farmers' sheep. So the authorities raised the bounty on them. Two hundred men decided they could use the extra money. They headed out to the wide…
TOUCHING SENSITIVE SPOTS A man who played golf in a foursome with President Eisenhower at the Cherry Hills Club in Denver shanked an approach shot. To his horror, the errant pellet flew toward the President…
A MINORITY VIEW? Rev David Francoeur, the editor of The Ecclesiastical Times, reports that two resolutions introduced at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Phoenix, AZ, did not receive the attention of the…
Solutions occur when we think things out. Worries occur when we think things in.
HECKLER HUMOR Speaker to heckler: "Please -- if I wanted a hard time I could have stayed home and talked to my kids." From System Forms Brochure, August 1988
WORTH THE WALK On December 24th, 1982, within a few hours over 24 inches of snow fell in the city of Denver, Colorado. I had chosen to go to work some 13 miles distant, earlier…
DISCOURAGED BY DECEPTION During the siege of Milan in the twelfth century, the inhabitants filled grain bags with sand and used them to reinforce the battlements. The besiegers under the German Emperor, Barbarossa, thought the…
LOSING MOMENTUM Jack Hayford tells about an incident in High School. He and his basketball team were playing an "away" game. There were few of their home crowd in attendance. The team was on its…
STATE OF THE WORLD "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love." By William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
HOW HIGH CAN YOU FLY? Remember the first helium balloon you lost? It slipped out of your hand and up it went... up... up... up... until it was out of sight. A child's first lesson…
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER My wife, a registered nurse, once fussed over every pain or mishap that came my way. Recently, however, I got an indication that the honeymoon is over. I was about to…
THE WORLD VERSUS MY GOD THE WORLD ROARS I cannot hear my God... but... MY GOD HEARS MY SILENT ANGUISH. THE WORLD GLARES I cannot see my God... but... AS MY GOD SEES THE SPARROW,…
TERTULLIAN: CHRISTIAN BLOOD IS SEED But go zealously on... Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust... The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood…
KINGDOM LIVING SUFFERING Now it is true that Kingdom living can be here and now -- in the believer's heart. However, when it comes to the external conditions of life and the Christian's circumstances in…
POWER & CHARACTER Adversity can be a test of character, but most people can stand adversity. If you really want to test their characters, give them power.
AGE & WISDOM Taught by adversity, old age, learns, too late, to be wise. Chorus in Antigone by Sophocles
