I heard about a man who was drafted into the army. While in the army he developed a very strange habit. As he walked along each day he kept picking up pieces of paper, saying to himself aloud, "That's not it!" He would pick up one piece of paper after another and say,...
"Sing to the Lord a new song and his praise in the congregation of the saints" (Psalm 149:1) NKJV"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs ,singing with grace in your hearts...
The story is told of a woman who bought a parrot to keep her company, but she returned it the next day. "This bird doesn't talk," she told the owner."Does he have a mirror in his cage?" He asked. "Parrots love mirrors. They see their reflection and start a...
An old lady had been married for many years when suddenly her husband died. This is what she put on his tombstone:THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE HAS GONE OUTNot long afterward she met, fell in love with and married another man. After thinking at some length about it, she went...
(A spiritual comparison)In the past working as a Bail Supervisor working in a local court system, I had a number of individuals assigned to report to me on a weekly basis. Many of them had substance abuse problems and It became obvious to me that they were using drugs...
There's a story that Thomas Wheeler, CEO of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, tells on himself. He and his wife were driving along an interstate highway when he noticed that their car was low on gas. Wheeler got off the highway at the next exit and soon...
It is said that during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, his troops were battling in the middle of yet another small town in that endless wintry land, and Napoleon was accidentally separated from his men. A group of Russian Cossacks spotted him and began chasing him...