ELEMENTARY LOGIC My wife, Mary, is a fifth grade teacher at Mary Moore Elementary School. They had just finished a short week due to a Monday holiday. She and a couple of her students were…
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ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD My grandmother worked at a bakery, and she always brought something home. She put her goodies in a Tupperware container on top of the refrigerator. Whenever I came to visit, I went…
NOW THEY ARE FAMILY In an ironic twist, a brother and sister were reunited a couple of months ago. James Austin and Yvette Richardson, both 34 years old, discovered that they were brother and sister.…
KATHY'S LITTLE PAINT CAN She came to our front door Tuesday morning, dressed in dirty rags, holding a little aluminum paint can in her arms. From the second she stepped inside our shelter, she mystified…
UPS WILL GET YOU! When the father of a little girl in our congregation had taken all he could and would finally get fed up and holler at his daughter, he would yell, "If you…
ANGUISHED ENGLISH by Richard Lederer Student bloopers worthy of "Pullet Prizes: -- I expected to enjoy the film, but that was before I saw it. -- It is bad manners to break your bread and…
WELL BEHAVED CHILDREN A condo committee was screening a couple interested in renting an apartment. "What kind of work do you do?", they asked. "My husband is an engineer and I'm a school teacher." "Any…
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP A wise old pastor told how some people get mad at the church and decide they will hurt the church by leaving. He explained that they were wrong in thinking that their leaving…
DEATH WAS AVOIDABLE Finley was employed as a camper salesman and was hauling a camper across the Klamath Mountains on November 14, 1994. On May 22, 1995 a front- loader dug DeWitt Finley's pickup out…
SO EASILY PROVOKED A sense of humor enables us not so much to laugh at the people who provoke us as to laugh at ourselves for being so easily provoked. By Robert Power
IS MICHIGAN LIKE HEAVEN? A young three-year-old who lives in Phoenix, Arizona enjoyed the winter visits from her grandparents and great grandmother. One day in early summer she talked to her mother and asked, "Is…
50 CREATIVE DATING IDEAS 1. Sketch your dream-house floor plan and talk about the possibilities for each room. 2. Write the story of how you met. Get it printed and bound. 3. List your spouse's…
MASS SALVATION SUSPECT In a warning similar to that of C. S. Lewis concerning the dangers of mass repentance as evoked in his essay, "The Dangers of National Repentance," John Wesley Lord, the Bishop of…
HOLDING The flaming noonday heat compelled Dora to withdraw from the lush garden into her mother-in-law's cool and comfortable country cottage. Dora had been caring for her husband's mother several months. Every morning Dora would…
GOD'S HOSPITAL TOUR Reggie White, defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers is considered by many to be one of the best defensive players of all time. Reggie is also an ordained minister. Reggie writes…
FEELING SHAME A 16 -year-old Maryland boy who is serving time in a juvenile-detention center for sexually molesting his 9-year-old sister wants to go home. But before Montgomery county court officials will release him, the…
WEIGHT LOSS A BATH AWAY Childhood is now looked back to with nostalgia because it was the one wonderful time when all you needed to do to lose weight was to take a bath.
TOLERANCE OVER COMMUNICATION A couple were asked, "What is the secret for staying married for such a long time?" "That's simple," one of them answered, "One of us talks, and the other one doesn't listen!"
WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF An old country preacher was preaching about the prodigal son: "The young man became so destitute, he sold his coat to buy bread, then he sold his shirt to buy…
THE NEED FOR PRAYER This week, if you believe at all in opinion surveys, more of us will pray than will go to work, or exercise, or have sexual relations. Studies conducted by Andrew M.…
