1379) No Complaints

From Your New Money Mindset, by Brad Hewitt and James Moline, 2015, Tyndale House Publishers.      My Grandpa Colby was a young teen when he was summoned to a…

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1369) Knowing What to Want

From Your New Money Mindset, by Brad Hewitt and James Moline, 2015, Tyndale House Publishers. -----------------------------      Contentment and peace can come by managing our expectations.      I…

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1366) A Visit From Father Time

This meditation is from my grandson's devotion book, The One Year Devotions for Boys, December 30th, Tyndale Publishers, copyright 2000 by The Children's Bible Hour.  He read this to me…

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845) Thou Shalt Not Covet

"Most of us don't know exactly what we want, but we're pretty sure we don't have it."  (Mad magazine, Issue #110) "Even the man who has everything is envious of the…

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762) Life Getting Easier

By Garrison Keillor, Life Among the Lutherans, pp. 82-3      ...It's bad luck, but nonetheless she was thinking it:  there does come a point in life where a great…

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550) Wow!

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:…

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526) How Much is Enough?

A vacationing American businessman was standing on the pier of a quaint coastal fishing village in southern Mexico when a small boat with just one young fisherman pulled into the…

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