NOT ENOUGH GREAT FOLLOWERS The great home run hitter, Babe Ruth, during an interview is said to have made the following comment: "I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we…
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GARDENING RULES FOR LIVING There is an old French saying: "Chase away nature and it comes back at a gallop." Mountain pieties are a form of earth wisdom that we ignore at our own peril.…
DISCIPLESHIP IS EASIER Mothers have been known to rush into burning houses to rescue their infant children--burning themselves cruelly in the process, but not even feeling the burns in the thrill of saving their loved…
FATHER'S EYES Bob Richards, the former pole-vault champion, shares a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart. Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being…
BEST THINGS ARE FELT The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller
MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PAST In the early days of the Tennessee Valley Project (TVA), a dilapidated log homestead had to be abandoned to make room for a lake behind the dam. A new home…
PURPOSE OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal priest and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) pointed out, "that one difference between the church & AA is that no one ever goes to AA to get a…
A STRANGE VICTORY It seems that God had finally had it with the Earth. So He invited Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates to dinner. Afterwards, He told them that He was going to…
GOD'S OR OURS Speaking of what is God's and what is ours he writes, "The struggle is, at least in our minds, between what is ours and what is God's. I am in a position…
VICTORY OVER SEXUAL TEMPTATION Whenever I feel particularly vulnerable to sexual temptation, I find it helpful to review what effects my action could have: Grieving the Lord who redeemed me. Dragging his sacred name into…
BETWEEN TWO OPPOSITES No man is able to progress when he is wavering between opposite things. -- Epictetus
POWER & JOY You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BUDGE When the usher noticed a man stretched across three seats in the movie theater, he walked over and whispered, "Sorry, sir, but you're allowed only one seat." The man…
BROTHER'S KEEPER OR KEEPER'S BROTHER The zookeeper walked by the cage and noticed the ape was reading two books: the Bible and Darwin's Origin of the Species. The surprised zookeeper asked the ape why he…
DIFFERENT ELEPHANT One day an explorer is out in the jungle. As he wanders along, he comes upon an elephant, crying with pain, a large thorn lodged in its foot. Feeling sorry for the elephant,…
TWO THINGS THAT LAST Only two things will last for eternity: the Word of God and the souls of men. -- Gene Warr, Oklahoma City businessman
LOVE IS Love is Silence--when your words would hurt. Love is Patience- -when your neighbor's curt. Love is Deafness--when a scandal flows. Love is Thoughtfulness--for other's woes. Love is Promptness--when stern duty calls. Love is…
CRACKED POTS A water bearer in India had two large pots that hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and…
CAST FROM HEAVEN I was at the beach with my children when my four-year-old son ran up to me, grabbed my hand, and led me to the shore, where a sea gull lay dead in…
WHAT'S HER NAME? During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What…
