MY GRANDPA'S IN HEAVEN In Bill Keane's "Family Circus," Dolly is talking to another little girl. The girl has a postcard in her hand and she says: "My Grandfather is in Florida." Not to be…
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GREAT GRANDMOTHER Like an ancient Valley Oak, she sits stooped upon her chair. Once eager hands, now gnarled and bent, are reposing there. In her summer she bore much fruit, and there was greenness inher…
LOOKING AT LIFE FROM THE OTHER SIDE Toward the end of the last century, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel woke one morning to read his own obituary in the local newspaper: "Alfred Nobel, the inventor of…
KNOCK LONG AND LOUD ENOUGH Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,…
TAKE SIDES Elie Wiesel, accepting the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize: "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
IT'S HOW YOU SEE IT! "I don't want my face washed!" cried Jane. "Oh come now," Grandmother coaxed, "I've washed my face three times a day since I was a little girl like you." Jane…
OLD FORTUNES Old folks are worth a fortune, with silver in their hair, gold in their teeth, stones in their kidneys, lead in their feet, and gas in their stomachs.
CUSTOMER CREED: 1) The customer is our reason for being here. 2) It takes months to find a customer, seconds to lose one. 3) Always be courteous and polite during each customer's contact. 4) Always…
WHAT TO WIN "It's better to lose the battle and win the man Than win the battle and lose the man." By Bob Munger, First Presbyterian Church of Berkley
FULL-TIME FATHER Teddy Roosevelt once said about his 16 year old daughter, "I can either be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot do both."
MISPRINTS: The Church is offering a series entitled "The Church Explores the Issues." Tommorrow's lecture will be "Recycling - Our Garbage is a Resource." There will be a potluck supper at 6 P.M. On a…
ENTER THE OLD MAN This matter of being courteous is not a modern idea either. It is as old as human relationships, as is evidenced by history. For instance: It is said that upon a…
WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE While touring historic buildings in Alexandria, Virginia., we visited an old church. The guide said that George Washington had attended services there and pointed to his pew. A reverent silence fell. The…
COMMUNITY OF BEES In Maeterlick's treatise on the "Life of the Bee," he remarks on the need of the honeybee for community: "She will dive for an instant into the sea that is filled with…
PERPETUAL ASSISTANCE I recently preached a sermon in which I told the following story: There is an organization which never meets, has no officers, no formal charter or anything which would qualify it as an…
TOO REAL TO LIFE When Nikos Kazantzakis was a small boy, the Turks sometimes entered his little village and massacred people. One time, after another massacre, Nikos's father took him out to where the massacre…
AMY GRANT'S INFERIORITY As told by Amy Grant -- "One day I got up early, came downstairs and set up the ironing board. First, I put my head down, stretched out my hair as far…
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY In 1933 two young men, Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, created a comic strip for a publishing company in New York. Money was hard to come by in those…
GET RICH QUICK The wolves were wiping out the farmers' sheep. So the authorities raised the bounty on them. Two hundred men decided they could use the extra money. They headed out to the wide…
PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD A number of years ago, I made a little investment in the stock market. - It was not much, only a few hundred dollars. - But suddenly I was a partner in…
