Angels in the Alley
Angels in the Alley Diane, a young Christian university student, was home for the summer. She had gone to visit some friends one evening and time passed quickly as each shared their various experiences of the past year. She ended up staying longer than planned and had...
How God Defines Success
How God Defines Success Very early in life (almost from birth) we are trained to be successful according to the world's definition of success. We are driven by goals and accomplishments from the day we take our first steps and ride our first bike. As we grow older, we...
Six Easy Ways to Gain
Check out these six ways: 1) Give a smile or gift to someone. Each time you give a gift or a smile, it will make someone's day.....you gain. 2) Donate a wheelchair to a hospital. Each time a sick person uses it, you gain. 3) Participate in building an orphanage,...
A Surprise Lesson from Squeezing an Orange
A surprise lesson from squeezing an orange as told by the late Dr. Wayne W. Dyer: I was preparing to speak at an I-Can-Do-It conference and I decided to bring an orange on stage with me as a prop for my lecture. I opened a conversation with a bright young fellow of...
What’s in Your Sponge?
What's in Your Sponge? There are five sponges laying on your kitchen countertop. Each member of your family has been cleaning up different areas of your home, but all the sponges look the same. You are curious as to what was cleaned in your home, but you can't tell by...
Where God isn’t
Where God isn’t He was just a little boy, on a week's first day. He was wandering home from Sunday School, and dawdling on the way. He scuffed his shoes into the grass; he found a caterpillar. He found a fluffy milkweed pod, and blew out all the "filler." A...
Rich or Poor?
Rich or Poor? One day, a financially comfortable father decided to take his son to the country, with the purpose of showing him how poor people live, and that the son could understand the value of things, and realize how fortunate they were. They stayed overnight at a...
God’s Holding Patterns
God's Holding Patterns Many times God will allow a painful situation or a painful circumstance in our life to "swallow us up." This season in our spiritual growth is a holding pattern. We can't move to the left or the right. All we can do is sit, like Jonah sat in the...
Forever Friendship
Forever Friendship Red roses were her favorites, Her name was also Rose, And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door. The card said, "Be my Valentine," like all the years before. Each year he sent...