There are lessons to be learned everywhere in life. Parables, allegories, metaphors, and fables help teach us the deeper meaning of life and all the blessings it holds.
There was once an elderly, despondent woman living in a nursing home. She wouldn’t speak to anyone or request anything. She merely existed – rocking in her creaky old rocking chair, day in and day [continue…]
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less than today, a 10-year-old boy entered a coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of [continue…]
A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it usually lasts forever. None are so rich that can get along without it, And none are so poor, [continue…]
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive [continue…]
A teenage boy was telling his grandma how ‘everything’ is going wrong in his life lately – school, family problems, health problems, peer pressure, etc. There was much stress and anxiety in the troubled young [continue…]
One day, a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, that the [continue…]
If we want to know what happiness is, we must seek it – not as if it were a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but among human beings who are living [continue…]
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers near the ditch along the highway a woman travels on to work. One year, a particular blue flower caught her eye. It bloomed only in the morning [continue…]
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