I put a nightlight on it Even though I know you’re not there. It helps me to feel a bit better Knowing I have to…
Fishing in the Park
A kind-hearted Presbyterian was walking through Central Park in New York and was astonished to see an old man, with rod in hand, fishing over…
Dear Baby Jesus
A little boy is told by his mother that he has been very bad this year. Thus, he would probably not get anything for Christmas….
Simplicity
I recently started working part-time at a discount store. I have had the opportunity to observe customers from all walks of life. Even though the store is a “discount” store, shoppers range from well-to-do to the plain and simple whose economic needs probably necessitate their shopping at discount stores. Of course I already knew that having a bright loving persona isn’t by any means related to how affluent a person is, and that is what this little story is about…
Catholic Dictionary
Time to brush up even if you’re not Catholic! You never know when, or by whom, you might be tested! AMEN: The only part of…
The Dark Candle
A man had a little daughter — an only and much-beloved child. He lived for her — she was his life. So when she became ill and her illness resisted the efforts of the best obtainable physicians, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.
Analogies from School Essays
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. His thoughts tumbled in his…
Life Lessons
1 – First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady. During my second month of college, our professor Gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious…
Cowboy and Big-City Church
Cowboy Joe was telling his fellow cowboys back on the ranch about his first visit to a big-city church. “When I got there, they had…
Burdens II
“Why was my burden so heavy?” I slammed the bedroom door and leaned against it. Is there no rest from this life? I wondered. I stumbled to my bed and dropped onto it, pressing my pillow around my ears to shut out the noise of my existence.
Burdens
An old legend relates that long ago God had a great many burdens which He wished to have carried from one place to another on…
Be A Kid Again
Try the following: Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today. Grow a milk mustache. Open a pack of cupcakes and give one…
