When you thought I wasn’t lookingYou hung my first painting on the refrigeratorAnd I wanted to paint another. When you thought I wasn’t lookingYou fed a stray catAnd I thought it was…
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A mother’s walk
The young mother set her foot on the path of life. “Is this a long way?” she asked. The guide said, “Yes, and the way is hard. You will be old before…
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I sat in my chair quietly next to my Mom & Dad as my Grade-IV teacher gave them an update on my progress at school. “Your child is a slow learner,” said…
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The house with the golden windows
Once, a little girl lived in a small, simple house on a hill. As she grew up playing in her small garden, she could see, over the garden fence and across the…
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Building bridges
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, labour and…
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Hasty to judge
A man and his daughter were playing in the park. The little girl spotted an apple vendor and asked her father to buy her an apple. The man didn’t have much…
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Listening
When a man, whose marriage was in trouble, sought his advice, the Master said, “You must learn to listen to your wife.” The man took this advice to heart and returned after…
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The mountain
Once there were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. One day, the mountain people invaded the lowlanders and, as…
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The trouble tree
The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tyre made him lose an hour of work, his…
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Why mothers cry …
“Why are you crying?” a little boy asked his mom. “Because I’m a mother,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. She just hugged him and said, “You never will!” Later,…