TOMORROW: Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.…
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Life is short and we have not too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. By…
People often say to me, "What would you do if you met a really modern man on a train and you had just an hour to talk with him about the gospel?" And I've said…
LAST FIFTY KISSES I recently read of a father who was sitting in his living room one day. It was his fiftieth birthday, and he happened to be in an irritable mood. Suddenly his 11…
LONG-WINDED DRIVING We were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for the Christmas holidays. Since they live in Illinois and we live in Minnesota, the drive down can become quite long, especially if you are…
LONG TERM DRIVING A little boy was riding along with his father from New Mexico to Colorado. They were traveling 250 miles to go fishing. After about fifty miles the excited son asked his father…
A BETTER WAY I spoke recently with Daniel Davila, the director to Summit School of Theology in Broomfield, Colorado concerning time. Daniel highlighted the difference between the concept of time in the United States and…
NEVER TOO EARLY Bob called his wife from work in the middle of the afternoon. "I am able to get two tickets for the show we wanted to see. It's playing now. Do you want…
TIME: We only have time for that which we take time. By Connie West, Gilcrest, CO
MEETING ONE'S SELF An Englishman, Osbert Sitwell, once wrote a novel that had a memorable scene in it, even though it was only fancy. The novel was entitled, The Man Who Lost Himself. In the…
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." By Alexander Woollcott, Long, Long Ago, published by Viking Books
TAKE TIME: Take time to think. . . It is the source of power. Take time to play. . . It is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to read. . . It is…
TIME SPENT It actually takes a lot of energy to live. If we are not careful, we will use it all up living. A man may be allotted threescore and ten years. If he is,…
WORDS: Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Adlai Stevenson)
ACTIVITY: Never mistake motion for action. (Ernest Hemingway)
IMPOSSIBLE: I have learned to use the word "impossible" with great caution. (Wernher Von Braun)
Don't find a fault. . . Find a remedy. (Henry Ford)
NATURE: Nature never breaks her own laws. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Knowledge itself is power. (Francis Bacon)
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. (Goethe)
