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Just as individuals can overcome hardship and surmount challenges, so can communities and nations. Very often, it is in the soil of difficulty that...
Years ago, Jenkins Lloyd Jones wrote the following about marriage, and about life: “There seems to be a superstition among many thousands of our...
Have you ever seen a painting by the artist Renoir—in a museum, perhaps, or in a book of impressionist art? We marvel at the...
Nineteenth-century American writer Christian Bovee once said, “The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater, ennoble it.”1 Sometimes, with the pressures and stresses of life,...
On a blustery winter evening in 1956, Martin Luther King attended a church meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, leaving his wife and baby at home....
Very often, the surest way to make an adversity or heartache a little more bearable is to think a little more about the adversities...
The beginning of a new year is a good time to remember that most darkness is temporary. No matter how bleak or dark things...
One hundred and fifty years ago, Christmas of 1861, the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was too filled with grief to celebrate. Only months earlier his beloved wife had died in a tragic accident. At the same time, the country was caught up in a terrible civil war, and it seemed to Henry that sorrow filled not only his own life but the whole world. He wrote, "How inexpressibly sad are all holidays.”1
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed…...
The first Christmas carol that many children learn invokes a tender scene: “Away in a manger, no crib for his bed, The little Lord...
Sometimes the most extraordinary things happen in the most ordinary places. Two thousand years ago, in a very common setting, a shepherd’s field, angels...
The month of December is a time of joyful anticipation. The sights, sounds, and smells of the season evoke feelings of excitement and wonder....
True gratitude manifests itself in how we choose to give to others. When we truly feel grateful, we feel a compelling desire to help...
On July 10, 1940, German bombers and fighter planes filled the skies above England, launching brutal air attacks that would last through October. The...
If we are open and willing to learn, life has a way of teaching us. We learn what is most important, where we should...
A young soldier, with tears in his eyes, hugs his wife and child and boards a transport plane, bound for foreign conflict. It is...
A farmer’s son once watched with great compassion as a tiny chick stirred within its shell. Slowly the bird made a small crack in...
Things are not always as they appear. It’s easy to make assumptions, only to find out that our quick judgment is not at all...
The late Alex Haley, author of the novel Roots, kept on the wall of his office a picture of a turtle sitting on a...
Make firm plans and be flexible.” This good advice from a father to his children may, at first, seem contradictory. Everybody needs goals, purpose,...
Life is a study in forgiveness. No one gets through life without needing to forgive. And no one escapes the need to be forgiven....
During the difficult days of World War II, enrollment at universities in the United States had fallen so much that many venerable schools were...
What we think about others and ourselves has the power to shape our world. How often have we heard ourselves say things like “I’m...
It’s been ten years since 9/11. And yet we continue to tell stories of the children, parents, and families, airline passengers and air traffic...
When Benjamin Franklin was a boy, he traded all his money for a friend’s whistle. And he enjoyed the whistle until he learned it...
It’s remarkable what we can accomplish if we have courage, if we refuse to be afraid. Fear is a toxic feeling that can consume...
Life, in this world, can be hard on anyone. We hear and see things that are discouraging, even disheartening, and at times we may...
The simple scene is played out someplace every day: A teenage employee serves customers in a deli and ice cream shop with uncommon cheerfulness....
A few hours after closing on his new home, Josh Ferrin noticed a tiny scrap of carpet hanging out from the attic in the...
Many a sailor has been storm-tossed on a windy night in the midst of unfamiliar seas. Brave seafarers know that they must press forward....