LISTENING TO A SNAKE One warm spring day we were driving on a road so thick with trees that we could not see the sun. Our four year old grandson Luke was with us, and…
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SATAN'S SIDE He who rejoices in another's fall rejoices in the devil's victory. By St. Ambrose
OPPORTUNITY KILLED Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. -- Victor Kiam
WATCH OUT FOR MOM An exasperated mother sent her naughty son to his room to discipline him. He stormed up to his room and defiantly hid under the bed. When the boy's father got home,…
MONDAY MORNING COACHES A good example of not second-guessing your decisions comes from legendary football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. After a tough loss on Saturday, Coach Bryant went to the barber shop for a haircut…
TRY SOFTER A boy came to see the Master. "What do you wish of me?" The Master asked. "I wish to be your student, and become the wisest master in all the land," the boy…
ASK YOUR FATHER The young daughter's mother was gone for the evening, so the daughter was sitting in her mother's chair and "playing mother" for her father and her brother. Her father watched this maternal…
BIG THINGS FIRST Management consultant Steven Covey tells of standing before a seminar with an empty canister. He filled the canister with large rocks and asked, "Is it full?" Almost everyone concluded it was. He…
BETTER GRASS Sometime ago there appeared in a newspaper a cartoon showing two fields divided by a fence. Both fields were about the same size, and each had plenty of the same grass, green and…
CHURCHILL'S WEAKNESS A person's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness. Winston Churchill started out his life with a speech defect knowing he could never have the career he wanted…
LOVE LOST Bishop Richard C. Raines once told of a bright young woman who had decided that she wanted to dedicate her life to helping others, especially people in trouble, so she attended a Red…
UNBREAKABLE COMB SALES A man was selling "unbreakable combs" in front of a department store. To convince his skeptical audience, he bent two ends of a comb together until they touched. There was a loud…
GIFT OF CONVICTION On May 7, 1996, Good Morning America interviewed several consultants concerning public speaking. One of the consultants summarized what public speaking is really all about by advising: "Give them the gift of…
OPPORTUNE SPANKINGS Spank your children every day. It you don't know what for, they will!
JELLY BEAN TRADING The Apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians that they would know how "wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge..."…
LOGICAL LAWS Harding's Homily: "It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything." Johnson's Law: "There's nothing to scratch but the surface." William's Law: "There is not a mechanical problem so difficult that it…
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OPPORTUNITY TO BE A SON Leo Tolstoy tells in one of his folk stories of an aged man who overheard the conversation of three women at a well. The first one to speak described her…
UNSEEN TREASURES The February 5, 1996 issue of Newsweek, told of a wonderful work of art created by Michelangelo, the great fifteenth century artist. People had walked by it every day and hardly even looked…
STRETCHING THE SOUL It's a good story which was told many years ago by R. Lee Sharpe. And a short but big sermon it was too! Let's relate it mostly in Mr. Sharpe's own language:…
INDUSTRIOUS HORSE I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse…
