"SWEET" SHORT SHOT EXPERIENCE: Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke, from Kraft Sugar, Kraft Inc. Dist., Glenview, IL 60025
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"SWEET" SHORT SHOT BUSINESS: We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble and still others make excuses. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke. from Kraft Sugar, Kraft Inc. Dist., Glenview, IL 60025
"SWEET" SHORT SHOT OPTIMISM: An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke, from Kraft Sugar. Kraft Inc. Dist., Glenview, IL 60025
"SWEET" SHORT SHOT SUCCESS: If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke, from Kraft…
"SWEET" SHORT SHOT FRIENDSHIP: Never explain - your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. Submitted by Diane Van Dyke, from Kraft Sugar, Kraft Inc., Dist., Glenview, IL
"SWEET" SHORT SHOT SATISFACTION: If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. This collection is taken from packets of sugar that were given to me…
GOD'S PICTURE There's an old story about a little boy who was so engrossed in drawing that his mother finally asked him what it was he was drawing. "God," he said. "But nobody has ever…
RESURRECT MY LOVE When love dies in me and I feel angry and bitter; judgmental and righteous, thinking that I have just cause not to love....come into my dead empty places where I have forbidden…
WHICH ONE IS IT? I visited Jerusalem about eight years ago. While there I visited two possible sites for the tomb of Jesus. One had so much religious trappings on and around it, that there…
THE MIGHTY SEED In Hamburg, Germany, some years ago, there was a woman who became an ardent disciple of Dr. Strauss, a theologian who denied the fact of the resurrection of Christ. She gave instructions…
THE FAMOUS TOMB If Easter says anything at all to us, it is that Jesus will always be with us. The pyramids of Egypt are famous because they contained the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptian…
KREMLIN CHRISTIANITY The Washington Post quoted George Bush after he returned from a visit to Russia: "An amazing thing happened at the funeral of Soviet leader Brezhnev. Things were run with military precision; a coldness…
RISEN INDEED! Many years ago in Russia, during the time of Lent and Easter, Christians used a greeting other than "How are you?" and "I am fine." Upon meeting, they would say: "CHRIST IS RISEN!"…
MORE BEYOND Francis Bacon had on his bookplate an engraved picture. It was the picture of a small ship sailing out between the great Pillar of Hercules into an uncharted , unknown sea. Inscribed on…
SAVED BY THE BELL As the armies of Napoleon swept over Europe, one of his generals prepared to make an attack on the little town of Feldkirch on the Austrian border. It was early Easter…
TO DIE LIKE JESUS As an aged man lay dying in the hospital he summoned his nurse. "Would you call to me my lawyer and my doctor, right away?" he requested. Within a half hour…
EGGS DON'T FLY! It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird; it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We're like eggs…
THE IMAGE OF CHRIST It is recorded that Studdert-Kennedy told of a single experience in the first World War when he stumbled over the dead body of a German, a mere boy, and as he…
THE MAN FROM GALILEE There was a man, a quiet man, who came from Galilee. They said this man, this quiet man, a king could never be. But one fine day he made his way,…
CERTAIN OF EASTER On a Good Friday morning, during a heavy action in World War II, a young American soldier was severely wounded. He called for help and none came. He signalled to planes overhead,…
