Category: Spiritual
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Life without left turns
My father never drove a car.Well, that’s not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.“In those days,” he told me when he was in his 90s, “to drive a…
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Discouraged?
No Need to Be DiscouragedAs I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was.“We’re behind…
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God is a little like…
General Electric. He lights your path.Bayer Aspirin. He works wonders.Hallmark Cards. He cared enough to send the very best.Tide. He gets out the stains that others leave behind.VO-5 Hair Spray. He holds through all kinds of weather.Dial Soap. Aren’t you glad you know Him? Don’t you wish everyone did?Sears. He has everything.Alka Seltzer. Oh, what…
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Housecleaning
Last Week I threw out worrying,It was getting old and in the way.It kept me from being me,I couldn’t do things my way.I threw out those inhibitions,They were just crowding me out.Made room for my New Growth,Got rid of my old dreams and doubts. I threw out a book on my past(didn’t have time to…
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Perspective
This is good to look at when you are having trouble putting things into their proper perspective.Most of us never really have given this any thought whatsoever, but it’s rather dazzling to see it presented this way!Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.The universe is…
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Too Busy for a Friend…
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.It took the remainder of the…
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Selfish Creed
If I want it, it’s mine.If I give it to you and change my mind later, it’s mine.If I can take it away from you, it’s mine.If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.If it’s mine, it will never belong to anybody else, no matter what.If we are building something togehter, all the…
