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Stories to amuse, provoke thought, or provide a laugh...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Creativity

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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Perspective

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De-program yourself. The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is deliberately shocking. The more you accept it as the news, the more...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

A Key Choice

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This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

What is needed

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Risk and Timing

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Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Traps We Make

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No lions are ever caught in mousetraps. To catch lions you must think in terms of lions, not in terms of mice. Your mind is always creating ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Another Step

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Most Important Thing

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The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, the thing t...
Monday, September 22, 2014

An Incredible Power

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Imagination lit every lamp in this country, built every church, performed every act of kindness and progress, created more and better things...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Do it well...

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare ...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Traffic Cop Gives Tickets but Avoids Complaints

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By the very nature of the business, L.A. County traffic cops receive plenty of complaints about their work. After all, most motorists don...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Test For Indifference

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Are you indifferent to anything but the will of God? Ask God to show you where you might be attached to anything other than God's will. ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

TV Show Breaking Bad on the Dangers of Pride

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The critically-acclaimed TV show Breaking Bad centres on the story of Walter White, a bored high school chemistry teacher who discovers that...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Ultimate Victory

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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Pain

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When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilise them into a common search for life, those very pains ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Hidden Gems

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Sometimes God's best plans are hidden in that inconvenient phone call that interferes with your routine, or in a conversation someone en...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Asking 'Why' in the Wake of Parents' Divorce

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Tullian Tchividjian tells the following story about trying to deal with the pain of his parent's unexpected divorce: I remember going t...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

NFL Replacement Refs Show Need for The Judge

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For the first three weeks of the 2012 NFL season, replacement referees took the place on the playing field of the regular refs. The team own...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Man Spends Rare Coins at Face Value

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In 2012, a 19-year-old man from Washington state named Dakoda Garren was charged with stealing a rare coin collection worth at least $100,0...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Anger

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even...
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Husband and Father, teacher and student of life, love, philosophy, spirituality. Seeking to be an authentic follower of Jesus in a hectic world, in community with others.
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