SHARING OUR DEEPEST EXPERIENCES A mother was writing an excuse for her first-grader, who had been home with a stomach-ache. As the child observed her writing he observed, "Okay, but don't say I threw up.…
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UNAMBIGUOUS SELF-DENIAL One single act performed with true self-denial, in renunciation of the world, is infinitely more of a revival and more of Christianity than 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 persons, so long…
SORROWS IN PERSPECTIVE Sorrows are often like clouds, which though black when they are passing over us, when they are past become as if they were the garments of God thrown off in purple and…
POSTER WISDOM "Attention Teenagers, If you are tired of being hassled by unreasonable parents, now is the time for action! Leave home and pay your own way while you still know everything!"
SURE FIRE TIME PIECE Victor Borge told a friend that he could tell time by his piano. His friend was incredulous, so Borge volunteered to demonstrate. He pounded out a crashing march. Immediately there came…
UNDERSTATEMENT According to the November 25th issue of Fortune. magazine, Kenneth J. Semelsberger, 49, senior vice president at Scott Fetzer commented on his company's decision to accept a takeover bid from cash-rich Berkshire Hathaway: "When…
A CURE FOR HATRED A woman testified to the transformation in her life that had resulted through her experience in conversion. She declared, "I'm so glad I got religion. I have an uncle I used…
COMPASSION In 430 B.C. Thucydides wrote, "It was in those who had recovered from the plague that the sick and the dying found most compassion. A preacher who has never needed comfort is not likely…
BEYOND THIS VALE OF TEARS A little girl's cat had died. Her mother attempted to console her by saying, "Tabby is in heaven now." The little girl looked up and asked, "Gee, Mom, what would…
THRUST OUT INTO THE SKY There is an awkward moment at the top of a ferris wheel when, having come up the inside curvature, where we are facing into a firm structure of confident girders,…
FILLER Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck
THE GUILTY PARTY EXPOSED The father was brushing his teeth when his seven-year-old daughter barged toothpaste!" The Rotarian, Oct, 1985.
EXPLAINING THANKSGIVING In a Dennis the Menace cartoon, Dennis is talking to one of his little friends, as they peer into a department store window that is decorated for Christmas: "Last month was our giving…
THE UNGRATEFUL CHILD A fourth grade Sunday School boy was experiencing his first summer at a church camp. Soon he sent his mother a brief but pointed letter: "Dear Mom, please send me lots of…
FOREVER THANKFUL On the tombstone of her husband's grave, a southern mountain woman had chiseled in rough and uneven letters this epitaph: "He always appreciated." From J. Kenneth Morris, Premarital Counseling (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,…
ALMOST EXPRESSED THANKS In Vermont a farmer was sitting on the porch with his wife. He was beginning to realize how much she meant to him. It was about time -- for they had lived…
THANKS FOR LITTLE THINGS It was Thanksgiving season in the nursing home. The small resident population were gathered about their humble Thanksgiving table and the Director asked each in turn to express one thing for…
THE HEART'S GRATITUDE As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of the wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its…
A GOOD DAY "I know it's going to be a good day when all the wheels on my shopping cart turn the same way." Patrick White, Mayflower Congregational Church, Godfrey, Illinois."
SAY THE MAGIC WORD One woman is overheard saying to her friend: "I have a marvelous meat loaf recipe. All I do is mention it to my husband and he says, "Let's eat out." Chestnuts
