“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of ...
Read More »An Open Letter To the Living From the Dead
Dear Living Ones, I thought I’d write to tell you what I’ve learned since being dead. It shouldn’t take long. I know you are very busy. I used to think as you do now. You have to prepare for the future. You must study to get the job, and then you ...
Read More »Keeping It Real On Social Media
We scroll through everyone’s life and see all the happy, happy people doing fun and amazing stuff, looking perfect in their perfect lives. Oh, once in a while we will run across a full-time complainer and sharer-of-all-that-is-wrong-in-the-world, but so often it is about showing everyone the best parts of us. ...
Read More »Get Off My Nerves!
No matter how much we love our family, they are naturally going to get on our nerves from time to time, especially the ones we live with. That is just human nature. It is probably a good idea for us to remember we are no picnic to live with either ...
Read More »When Is the Best Time To Be Saved?
When is it the right time to get saved? Today? Tomorrow? Next week? How about after you’ve lived it up and had a taste of all that life has to offer? After all, there’s no time limit on salvation, or is there? I observed the following scene on a television ...
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