"Hey you, come here!""Why should I?""Because I want you to.""You don't even know my name! Why should I even care?"The life of a teacher isn't always that easy. How is this poor person supposed to remember the names of all the students at his/her school? I know one...
"Love others as well as you love yourself." (Matthew 22:39b, MSG)Abbé Adolphe-Julien Fouré's vision was to become a priest and to serve the people of his beloved Brittany. He did this with passion until he had a stroke at the age of 55, which left him completely deaf...
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13, NIV2)They had faith. At least we hope so, for they were a company of Benedictine monks in a monastery on Pointe St-Mathieu, France, established in the 6th...
"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." (Psalms 23:6, NIV2)Why do we face adversities? Some are bigger than others and some are almost insignificant, but these too can still be quite...
I was in a local Goodwill store today looking for a shirt for my son. As I was glancing at the clothing racks I noticed a young mother with her two daughters. The youngest was barely a year old and sat patiently in the shopping cart while her mother browsed through...
"When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. 'Get up,' he said, 'take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.'" (Matthew 2:13, NIV2)The New Zealand...
I was in a local grocery store the other day sorting through some bananas, when suddenly I heard, "Daddy!" And simultaneously felt two tiny arms wrap around my right leg. I looked down to see a lovely little girl no more than three years old looking up at me. She wore...
