A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE My doctor had recommended surgery and referred me to a specialist. Arriving early for my appointment, I found the door unlocked and the young surgeon, deeply engrossed in reading,…
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COMMUNICATION Do you ever wonder how the message gets through? I clipped these two from a column by Harry Farrell in the San Jose Mercury News. Harry was reporting on some of the delightful calls…
ONE THING FOLLOWS ANOTHER Directors Capital finished 1982 dead last out of the 526 funds ranked by Lipper Services, with a 58% loss. The fund, however, has been unhappily consistent. Its shares had dropped 76%…
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION Margaret Reinitz tells the following story: While I was shopping one Saturday, I sprayed my wrists with an expensive scent from a perfume counter's tester bottle. I then continued my shopping, exulting in…
A GREAT INVENTION If you could build a small package, something small enough to carry in your coat pocket, a machine which would instantly start and stop, in which you could instantly reverse yourself or…
WE EACH HAVE OUR OWN AGENDA Picture the scene: It is in the recreation room of a Californian retirement facility. Four ladies are playing bridge and chatting and keeping an eye on the flow of…
DON'T TALK TOO FAST The trouble with people who talk too fast is that they often say something they haven't thought of yet. Stephen Fast, North Oak Community Church, Hays, Kansas.
WATCH YOUR AIM Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither." C. S. Lewis
A LAW OF LIFE A bad fitting suit never wears out. Kim Hubbard
ATTENTION SPAN The attention span of a typical human is ten praises, six promises or one preachment. Jocco Grand
TEAMWORK The wife has been poring over the family's financial figures and finally concludes to her husband: "Well, I've worked out a budget -- now you'll have to work out a raise!" Goddard Sherman, Our…
READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when he was just…
LET LOOSE In his drama The Trial of Jesus, John Masefield has the centurion Longinus report to Pilate after the crucifixion of Jesus. Longinus had been the officer in charge of the execution, and after…
LANDMARK Carroll S. Ringgold tells of a white cross which stood on the outskirts of a city. A little lad was lost in the city. A policeman inquired, "Where do you live? Just tell me…
BEYOND THE CROSS Every year thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps, passing the "stations of the cross" to stand at an outdoor crucifix. One tourist noticed a little trail that led…
GOLGOTHA: YOU ARE THERE Come with me, if you dare . . . experience with all your senses Jesus' travail, his torture of trial, scourge and crucifixion. It wasn't an antiseptic, lily-white spectacle. It wasn't…
A REMOTE HOPE A few years ago a young man in the metropolitan New York area took a step before his death at 24 which he thought would safeguard his future. Upon his death, Steven…
THE STONE The heavy, ponderous stone that sealed Jesus in the confines of that rock-walled tomb was but a pebble compared to the Rock of Ages inside.
A BIBLE WITH A SAD ENDING In the 18th century, the U. S. Congress once issued a special edition of Thomas Jefferson's Bible. It was a simple copy of our Bible with all references to…
BURIED According to a Persian legend, when God created the earth, it was barren and without any sign of life. In due time, God sent out an angel to scatter all sorts of seeds over…
