If you want to have your financial needs met–give of what you have! If you want to have a friend–show yourself friendly! If you want to keep your life–give it away! These are spiritual truths, but they sure don’t make sense to our natural way of thinking– give and you ...
Read More »Yet They Gave Thanks
This is a story of being thankful, a story of the lives of three composers who lived centuries ago. The music they wrote lives on today, sung from hymnals in churches around the world as believers gather together on the Sabbath. When you know something of what they experienced in ...
Read More »Between Two Dates:What Will Our Story Be?
Yellowed and torn with age, the newspapers held obituaries as varied as the lives they represented. There were stories of childhood lost, lingering illness with hope for recovery, the mentioning of a graduation still looked forward to, a marriage ended in one spouse’s death when only months old, and the ...
Read More »“Sweet” Revenge?
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) Revenge can be a temptation, a natural desire in the face of a threat or a hurtful act on the part of another. It can certainly seem deserved when an injustice is done. But ...
Read More »Be Careful Little Mouth What You Say…
Dr. Seuss inspired wedding vows with a lighter side to traditional words promised at the altar. In part, they state the following: Will you love through good and bad? Whether you’re happy or sad? Will you love each other if you’re rich? Or if you’re poor, and in a ditch? ...
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