DUMBING DOWN HOLIDAYS Schools do more damage than good when they address only the secular elements of religious holidays. This trivializes religion, withholding important learning, while blinking the message that religion is dangerous and divisive.…
GRATEFUL CONTENTMENT In order to experience contentment on a regular basis, all you have to do is learn liking what you get rather than getting what you want.
LIMITED GRATITUDE A couple of fellows were walking down the street, when one said to the other, "Hey, that girl smiled at me." His friend answered him: "Don't be too surprised; the first time I…
NEED TO SIT STILL All the troubles of man come from his not knowing how to sit still! - - Blaise Pascal
ARISE MY SOUL by Isaac Watts Arise, my soul, my joyful pow'rs, And triumph in my God; Awake, my voice, And loud proclaim His work; Arise, my soul, awake, my voice, And let all tunes…
SPACE TURKEY If NASA sends a turkey into space, what sound would it make? I suppose: "Hubble, hubble, hubble."
TWO OF DAVE'S TOP TEN On Dave Letterman's Late Show on November 25, 1994 Dave read his top ten list. He told the top ten "Things Overheard at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." There were…
DAVE'S TOP SIX On Dave Letterman's Late Show on November 26, 1994 Dave read his top ten list. He told the top ten "Signs You've Eaten too Much." Here are the best six: Number nine…
PACKS HIS OWN LUNCH A group of high-rise construction workers would eat their lunches on the top of the sky-scraper they were building. Everyday they would complain that they always had the same thing in…
CHOICE OF TURKEYS Two employees returned to work after the Thanksgiving weekend. "Did you have a good Thanksgiving?" one asked the other. The second employee answered: "We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We invited all the…
WRONG MAN There is nothing quite like a story of humiliation to make us thankful--thankful it was not one of us! Here is one such story: An unidentified English woman, according to the London Sunday…
BORN IN A BARN A four-year-old girl often forgot to close the door when coming in from outside. Finally, her father scolded her, "Shut that door! Were you born in a barn?" She looked at…
SISTER ROBBED A STORE A grandmother took her two grandchildren to the store with her. When returning to the store, the older brother told his grandmother that his sister had taken an item from the…
JELLY TOAST PROCLAMATION The Christmas program was just one week away, and the little girl was practicing her songs. Her mother overheard her daughter in the other room practicing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." As…
JESUS CAME FOR US ALL In a world of increasing divisions and hatred, at Christmas we welcome the Prince of Peace, Christ, for "it is he who is our peace, and who made the two…
LOVE STORIES NEVER END The best love stories do not have happy endings, Because the best love stories never end. Michael Hodgin
STORY OF THE CANDY CANE There were once two villages in a far off land. One was in a valley, and one was on a mountain top. The folks in the mountain village wanted to…
GOD MUST LIKE PEOPLE God likes people. He sent his Son to be one!
FRESH CHRISTMAS STORY She was five, sure of the facts, and recited them with slow solemnity, convinced every word was revelation. She said they were so poor they had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…
STOLEN GIFTS When Adlai Stevenson worked for the Agricultural Administration, he received a Christmas gift from a walnut company: a large sack of individually packaged walnuts. He received this gift well before Christmas and realized…
