THINGS ARE GOING WRONG WHE N... You call your wife and tell her you would like to eat out tonight and she says there will be a sandwich on the front porch. The Gypsy fortune…
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PRAY FOR ME! On a recent Sunday in a Midwest city a young child was "acting up" during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the…
CHECKING VITAL SIGNS When my oldest daughter Med had open heart surgery, we were allowed to visit her in Cardiac Surgery Recovery just minutes after her surgery. Her mother and stepmother looked her over carefully…
TIME TO GO HOME The parsonage was next door to the church that I was serving. One Sunday night after the evening service, our family ran home to get in the car to go to…
GOT RELIGION There is a story told about a Baptist lady from South Carolina who was visiting her daughter in New York City. It was Sunday and the two women decided to go to church…
AN OPTIMISTIC HARVEST An optimist is a person who saves the pictures in the seed catalog to compare them with the flowers and vegetables he grows. Editor's Addition: A pessimist is the optimist at harvest…
LOVE NEEDED AND UNDERSTOOD If I were sitting on the end of the pier on a summer day and enjoying the sunshine and the air, and someone came along and jumped into the water and…
A CHAPEL IN OUR HEARTS It is not needful always to be in church to be with God. We make a chapel of our heart, to which we can from time to time withdraw to…
PARTIAL COVERAGE The other day I read this little quip: "You know it's going to be a bad day when you wake up in a hospital in traction and your insurance agent tells you that…
SPACE DOG A stray dog with its head stuck in a fish bowl wandered around Yakima, Washington for three days, looking like a primitive astronaut. Finally, on Friday, Dec. 20, 1991, some employees of a…
LIVING BEYOND HARDSHIPS Lord Nelson, England's famous naval hero, suffered from seasickness throughout his entire life. Yet the man who had destroyed Napoleon's fleet did not let illness interfere with his career. He not only…
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. By G.K. Chesterton
A CHARMING WIFE "An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't."
WHEN LOVE IS GONE How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she hasn't called the police…
GOLF SOCKS The local golf club has issued a new rule: New members must wear two pairs of socks. The reason: they might get a hole in one. By Sam Abramson, Rotarian, Shreveport, Louisiana
THE VICTORY SHIFTS What a difference a generation can make! Cousin Pearl saw her son watching the old movie, "Remember Pearl Harbor," on a Sony TV set. From "The Way I Heer'd It" by Jim…
ORNERY VIEW "What a beautiful view you have," the tourist said to the Ozark farmer. "Maybe," replied the farmer. "But if you had to plow that view, harrow it, cultivate it, hoe it, mow it,…
WHEN YOU BOTH SEE JUNK "You know it's going to be a good day," observes Dusty Rhodes, "when your wife returns home from the auction and says, 'Shoulda seen all that junk.'" From "The Way…
ANTIQUE OR JUNK Grandpa says one way to get rich is to develop the ability to tell exactly when a piece of junk becomes an antique. From "The Way I Heer'd It" by Jim Reed,…
THE COST OF THRIFT Tip Taylor told the boys down at the boat dock that sometimes people carry thrift too far, like his Uncle Maynard, who was taking long steps to keep from wearing out…
