ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS Not sure who this is from: "A distinguished professor at the University of Chicago tells of his three year old granddaughter who liked to visit him late in the afternoon…
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FUTILE GAIN A man found a magic lamp, rubbed it, and out came a genie, offering him one wish. After thinking hard, he asked for a copy of the newspaper dated one year from today.…
HUMBLE BEYOND TEMPTATION Let us never grow up so far that we can no longer look up. Nothing sets a person out of the devil's reach so much as humility. -- Jonathan Edwards
THANKS FOR ALL THAT HAS BEEN Dag Hammarskjold wrote: "Night is drawing nigh For all that has been -- thanks! To all that shall be -- Yes!"
THE POOR FAMILY One day, a father and his rich family took their son for a trip in the country with the firm purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a day…
DEBT PAID Fiorello LaGuardia, one-time mayor of New York, was presiding at police court on a bitterly cold day. A trembling old man was brought in, arrested for stealing a loaf of bread. His family,…
NOT A WRINKLE IN MY SOUL Here's a poem by A. D. Goldsmith: II Corinthians 4 - 5:10 "My hands are trembling, My feet are slipping, My back is aching, But there's not a wrinkle…
MAKE ME BE LIKE ME There is an old story about a rabbi who prayed, "O Lord, make me holy! Make me like Moses!" The rabbi paused. Then he heard God say, "What need have…
PUSHING AGAINST THE ROCK There was a man who was asleep one night in his cabin when suddenly his room was filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man he had…
HELPING HER KNOW SHE IS LOVED There is a beautiful story that comes out of the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Christian church about a priest named Father Demetrius. Father Demetrius was a good and…
MY RIGHTS OR GOD'S GRACE In his satire, The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis takes us with a busload of ghosts who have made an excursion from hell to heaven with a view to remaining…
AGELESS QUALITY OF MIND Age is a quality of mind, If you have left your dreams behind, If hope is lost, If you no longer look ahead, If ambitions fires are dead, Then you are…
SETTLING FOR GOD'S GRACE From Exit Interviews by William D. Hendricks: "There is a splendid moment in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie Jurassic Park, when world-class paleontologist Allen Grant, who has devoted his life to the…
WHAT I STILL POSSESS Martin Luther wrote "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
BREAD AND FISH From a sermon by William Carter. He writes this about the feeding of the 5,000: In Matthew's gospel, when the twelve said, "Lord, get rid of the crowd," Jesus responded, "You give…
THANKSGIVING SAYS THE RIGHT THING Lucy is down in the dumps & says to Linus, "My life is a drag. I've never been so low in all my life." Linus, the great spirit tries to…
WILLIAM TEMPLE ON WORSHIP William Temple said that worship is: To quicken the conscience of the holiness of God, To feed the mind with the truth of God, To purge the imagination by the beauty…
PARROT CONVERSATIONS While the rest of us will have turkey for Thanksgiving, researcher Irene Pepperberg of the University of Arizona in Tucson, will spend Thanksgiving with her parrot Alex--talking with Alex. Dr. Pepperberg purchased Alex…
LETTER FROM HURRICANE VICTIM Here is a touching letter from Krista Keck in Greenville, North Carolina to her friends and family after Hurricane Floyd: Dear family and friends, Thank you so much for the concerned…
REMEDY FOR WORRY Pastor Robert D. Jones writes that the remedy for worry is to seek the Lord, to believe his promises, and to orient your life around his priorities. He says that... God gives…
