1531) Psalm 100 (a)

     Once upon a time there was a single dad named Ernie, who had two kids in elementary school.  His ex-wife had abandoned the family, was nowhere to be…

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1323) ‘Much Obliged, Dear Lord’

----------- "We should devote 364 days a year to being thankful and set aside only one day for grumbling and complaining." ------------------------      Fulton Ousler (1893-1952) was a journalist,…

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1261) Nothing Left?

From The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, 1952,  p. 20-22 (ed.):      A man 52 years of age consulted me.  He was in great despondency.  He said he…

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1121) Who Owes Who What?

Auschwitz Concentration Camp ---------------------------- The following three quotes are from Jewish survivors of  Nazi concentration camps.  They are quoted by Reeve Robert Brenner in his book The Faith and Doubt…

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1104) Good Old Summertime

     Temperatures in the upper 70's these last few days have Minnesotans thinking about summer, even though it is still mid-April.  The first warm days of Spring have people…

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1051) The Black Dot

     One day, a professor entered the classroom and told his students he had a surprise test for them.  They all waited anxiously for the exam to begin.  The…

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