RUSH, RUSH I heard recently about a man who prided himself on being exceedingly punctual. He followed a very precise routine every morning. His alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. He rose briskly, shaved, showered,…
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WORKING TOGETHER Charles Osgood tells the story of two ladies who live in a convalescent center. Each of these ladies had suffered incapacitating strokes. Margaret's stroke caused her left side to be restricted while Ruth's…
KINDNESS/SERVING Salem Kirban tells the following story: East Berlin is communist controlled. West Berlin is free. Some people in East Berlin one day took a truckload of garbage and dumped it on the West Berlin…
THE VALUE OF A GLIMPSE A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a…
INVISIBLE LIFE The day was warm and sunny, and after lunch I took Tricia into the woods behind the house to explore with her the places I remembered from my own childhood. A dark stream…
OBEDIENCE God willing, I will push and politick no more . . . the mountains are too high, history is too long and eternity is longer. God is too great, man is too small, there…
POWERS TO BURN Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth . . . Compared with what we ought to…
COMMUNICATION/TRUTH/GOSSIP -- THE "F.O.A.F." STORY Did you know that there are catfish so large down at the ____ dam, divers refuse to go down there? They say they can eat a man!" The first time…
THE INTERPRETATION MAKES THE DIFFERENCE What do you see in the circumstances of life? As people of faith we see the hand of God active in our lives. The person without faith does not. Two…
THE TRUTH WILL OUT A Deputy District Attorney asked several robbery victims to study a lineup of five people. He had placed the suspect in the middle, and had told each man to step forward…
SUCCESS AND THE BEATITUDES The one thing we must see is that the Beatitudes by which Jesus begins this sermon are not a mild and sentimental collection of platitudes. They are a frontal challenge to…
RUSSIAN JOKES Apparently even the Russians have the ability to laugh at themselves. They pass around stories such as the following, which is one of President Reagan's favorites of this genre: It seems a Russian…
BALANCE I spent much of my ninth summer on a bicycle. About a mile from our house the road went down a steep hill and turned sharply at the bottom. Coasting down the hill one…
DEMILLE AND THE WATER BEETLE Cecil B. DeMille, the famous motion- picture producer, was a man of great talents and keen insights. He liked to get off by himself at times to think out a…
HERO OR FOOL -- THE CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE In the fourth century, a Christian named Phocas lived outside of Sinope in Asia Minor. Hundreds of travellers to the city passed by his door. They would stop…
PERSPECTIVE There was a distraught woman staying at a Boston hotel who one day telephoned the manager: "I am dizzy, faint, and at my wit's end. Someone in the next room has been banging on…
THE SENSITIVITY OF A GRATEFUL HEART If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search…
PRAYER FOR A BUSY DAY Dear God, When the day is too busy and the voices too loud, When there is too much on my mind and too little in my heart, When I plan…
POWERFUL MOTIVATION This announcement appeared in the bulletin of the Church of the Incarnation in Sarasota, Florida: "The Magic of Lassie, a film for the whole family, will be shown Sunday at 5 p.m. in…
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS In an article called "The Happy Huckster" we learn about James Kabler, the Master of Upscale Novelties (Success, Dec, 87). Kabler picked up his education in a variety of…
