A little boy attended a church that had beautiful stained-glass windows. The stained-glass windows, he learned, contained pictures of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint John, Saint Paul, etc. One day…
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Good things take time
It took Leo Tolstoy about six years to write the classic War and Peace. Cervantes published Part I of Don Quixote in 1605, but it was 10 years later — in 1615 — before he…
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Never give up!
This happened in November 2009. A South Korean woman celebrated after passing the written exam for a driving licence – on her 950th attempt. After four years of trying, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon…
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford dropped out of school at the age of 15. He walked from his family’s farm in Dearborn, Michigan, to Detroit, and found work in a machine shop. He would eventually…
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Humble beginnings
In the year 1873, there was a country-bumpkin who applied for a sales job at a store in upstate New York. He looked like anything but a potential salesman to the owner,…
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Let me be thankful….
Matthew Henry, the great Bible commentator, was robbed one day. He wrote in his diary: “Let me be thankful, first, because I was never robbed before. Second, because although they took my…
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Mindfulness
Do you enjoy the blessings in your life, or are you always wanting more? Dr. Don Colbert, in his book The Seven Pillars of Health, says people need to learn to practice mindfulness to…
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The male emperor penguin and childcare
One of the oddities of nature is the male emperor penguin of Antarctica. What makes him so odd is that he excels at childcare — not always the strongest suit for the…
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Kindergarten
In the 1980s, the #1 bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten was published. The author, Robert Fulghum, realised one day that “what’s necessary to live a meaningful life” wasn’t…
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The Gandhi ‘talisman’
To a friend, who was tormented by doubts, Gandhiji wrote a letter. The letter was mislaid, but on a later occasion the words were recalled to memory and transcribed. The following is…