PUT IT IN WRITING And speaking of Funny, Funny World I find quite a few good little stories in this publication -- 8625 Holloway Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90069. ($35.00 per year) Like this one:…
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CONFUSION A middle-aged woman was sitting in her den when all of a sudden a small black snake crawled across the floor and under the courch. The dear lady, who was deathly afraid of snakes,…
THE POWER OF BEING Legend has it that a missionary, lost at sea, was by chance washed up out of the sea on the edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from starvation, exposure and…
GOOD RITING Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Don't use no double negatives. A writer mustn't shift your point of view. When dangling, don't use participles. Join clauses…
PERCENTAGE PRAYERS Three Indians (or Native Americans, if you prefer) -- A Navajo, a Hopi and an Apache -- were speaking about how powerful their prayers were. The Navajo said, "You know, we Navajos pray…
FOR THIS OUR BOUNTY We thank thee for this smiling land of ours, For all the beauty and the grandeur here; We thank Thee most for freedom, dearly bought By Pilgrim band and sturdy pioneer.…
THANKSGIVING Heap high the board with plenteous cheer And gather to the feast And toast the sturdy pilgrim band Whose courage never ceased. Give praise to that All-Gracious One By whom their steps were led,…
COSTLY THANKS The story is told that when Pythagorus discovered the law of the hypotenuse he was so grateful for discovering this great mathematical insight that he sacrificed 1000 oxen to the gods as a…
THANKSGIVING IDEALS I return to this place for Thanksgiving, Hills created with scarlet and gold. And hear whispered from treetop The nostalgic memories they hold. I bow now in prayerful remembrance And thank Thee, O…
A BILLION How much is a billion? According to a recent government publication: A billion seonds ago Harry Truman was President A billion minutes ago, was just after the time of Christ A billion hours…
COUNT THE COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION A first grader came home from school one day and said to his little brother who was in kindergarten: "Don't ever let anyone teach you to spell 'cat'." The…
LUTHER ON MOTHER In commenting on the nature of women, Martin Luther is reported to have said: "When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most…
UNDERSTANDING MOTHERHOOD Not until I became a mother did I understand how much my mother had sacrificed for me; not until I became a mother did I feel how hurt my mother was when I…
PSALM 23, JAPANESE VERSION Maribel Kraybill of Lancaster Pennsylvania sent in this version of the familiar Shepherd's Psalm as translated into English from the Japanese version: r17601 The Lord is my pace setter, I shall…
MOTHER'S DAY The children next door told their mother she wasn't to lift a finger on Mother's Day. They were going to do all the cooking. So they got out three pots, two frying pans,…
AGING Do you get the cartoon strip The Wizard of Id in your paper? I often find some clever lines I can use from this strip by Parker and Hart. One day the little King…
LOSS OF A CHILD The Apr/82 issue of Family Life Today carried a series of articles and interviews on the death of one's child. Included were a number of moving testimonies to the power of…
THE COMPANY WE KEEP A mother was concerned about her only son going off to college. She wrote the following letter to the college president: Dear Sir: My son has been accepted for admission to…
THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE SUCCESSFUL MOTHER When all is said, it is the mother, and the mother only, who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. The successful mother,…
NOVICES Did you read in the Reader's Digest about the bachelor who moved into his first apartment? He asked a neighbor lady who had a motherly and helpful look about how to make coffee. She…
