A SMALL PRICE FOR LIFE Recent wire reports carried the story of a motorist who stole $9 worth of gasoline and died in a fiery wreck while making his getaway. The speeding car exploded when…
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RESURRECTION POWER Don Marquis, the New York newspaperman who charmed readers with tales of the cockroach and the cat, Archy and Mehitabel, in the 1920s loved to tell this story which was passed on by…
CUT SHORT My friend Ida is 76. She is sprite, energetic, faithful, and witty. And she is dying from lymphoma. The other day she said that her dying has reminded her of girlhood days when…
A DIARY'S WITNESS Two hundred years ago, a diary was found floating on the open sea. On one of the pages the sailor had written: "If you should hear that our ship has been sunk…
TORTURE TO TRIUMPH Crowns are reserved for God's faithful servants, like Adoniram Judson, a missionary who served in Burma. He was arrested and falsely accused of being an enemy agent. Imprisoned in a tiny cell,…
NO NEED FOR SORROW One of the stories that is told about Deitrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and pastor who was executed in 1945 by the Nazis for his participation in a plot to assassinate…
HOW YOU SPEND IT If God granted you 70 years of life You would spend: 24 years sleeping; 14 years working; Eight years in amusement; Six years at the dinner table; Five years in transportation;…
DIED IN SERVICE A 7 -year old boy attending church with his parents noticed a white flag with gold stars on it, and asked, "What's that, Daddy?" His father whispered, "That's a reminder of all…
LIVING AND DYING Elisabeth Kubler-Ross said, "I want people to know me as the 'life and living lady,' not the 'death and dying lady.' I help people to live, not die. I try to help…
WHERE I WALK Where I walk -- to come and back again to our little Buford home, I see what every walker sees, life and death, death and life. Death struts and swaggers, proud and…
WHAT DEATH IS Death is not termination, but transition, It is not a cessation, but a separation, It is not an ending, but an eternity.
HE KNOWS "Time to come in now!" -- the mellow voice of love in the darkening dusk of a distant day, my barefoot, carefree days of firefly lanterns, cricket-chirped curfews, and the serious business of…
NEAR DEATH PERSPECTIVE A Near Death Experience almost always leads to spiritual curiosity. Many Near Death Experiencers study and accept the spiritual teachings of the great religious thinkers. However, this doesn't mean that they become…
NOTHING SERIOUS The doctor was giving a physical exam for a life insurance policy and asked, "What did your father die of?" The worried patient wanted to pass this exam. The patient paused, "I don't…
GETTING THROUGH THE GATE In Abraham Lincoln's younger days, he served as Captain of a company of militia during the Black Hawk Indian War. Because he was inexperienced in the formalities of military drill, he…
CHALLENGER DISASTER Editor's note: We have been unable to substantiate the authenticity of this account. After a number of months, we have chosen to release it with this disclaimer... About 60 million Americans watched the…
THE DEACON'S THANKSGIVING Old Deacon Bedell was the cheeriest man You'd meet within many a day; He allowed that the Lord had a pretty good plan For running the world, and he'd say: "I'm thankful…
"SEE YOU LATER" By Barbara Stinnett In memory of her grandmother, Grace C. Troy Alone beside your bed I sit/ To hold your hand and pray/ That God will grant me benefit/ To hold it…
A CALL FROM BEYOND I take my wife out for breakfast on occasion to a little diner in Castleton, New York aptly named "The Hungry Monk" (aptly named for me that is!). The owner also…
HE JUST TOUCHED LIVES In a small town in the Midwest where Milton spent six years of his early youth, he knew a mentally retarded adult named Myron. It was during depression years and there…
