This profound little story made the rounds on Facebook a while back:    One day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few days and nights on the farm of what […]
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By Tom Bodett, Small Comforts, 1987, pages 156-159.    Among the thousand and one truisms that were hurled at us as expectant parents was one I especially wanted to believe:  “You are going to learn the most important things from your children.”  It sounded so promising, and when accompanied by a smug veteran-parent grin, it
By Stephen Witmer, posted July 1, 2018 at: http://www.desiringgod.org    Envy is a stingy and demanding master. It’s stingy because, unlike many other sins, there’s absolutely nothing pleasurable about experiencing it. Most sins bait the hook: lust offers excitement and escape, greed promises wealth and pleasure, gossip promises power and participation in the inner
“Ya, I believe in change, all right. Let’s change everything back to how it used to be.” ************************** From a letter by C. S. Lewis to Mary Van Deusen (November 21, 1962), on the difficulties of moving and on the lessons we are taught by life’s many changes.  From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis,
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In John 14:26, Jesus promised that after he went away, he would send the Holy Spirit to “remind you of everything I have said to you.” Â One of the ways the Holy Spirit reminds us of Jesus is by the lives of people who have been inspired by the example of Jesus’ life, as
   In 1963, when he was twenty-one, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) was diagnosed with ALS and given just two years to live.  It might be that Hawking’s illness helped him become the noted scientist he became.  Before the illness, Hawking had been a lazy student.  He still did well because he was so intelligent, but
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TWO PICTURES  –By Annie Douglas Robinson (1842-1913) An old farmhouse with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each side; A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day: ”Oh, if I could only fly away From this dull spot, the world to see,
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   (…continued)  For almost a century Winston Churchill walked like a giant on the world’s stage.  But even that was not enough to satisfy him.  He knew that whatever he had going for him, it would only be in this world, and only for this century– and then, he would have to leave everything.
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) ——————    I saw printed on a T-shirt these words:  “The best is good enough for me.”  Perhaps whoever wrote that got it from Winston Churchill who once said, “My tastes are simple; I am easily satisfied with the best.”  And Winston Churchill, for all of his 90 years, did have
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    In Luke 6:21 Jesus says, “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.”  SATISFIED. Did anyone ever tell you to ‘just be satisfied’? I’ve been told that. I used to be told that all the time by my parents. Like most other kids, whenever I got into a store, there was
