Julia Lake Lellersberger served with her husband in Africa among the lepers for more than 40 years. Well after the proverbial four-score years, she wrote the following: “At 81 years of age I am taking a post-graduate course in the University of Life. It is different...
Whether you live in Manila, Miami, or Mumbai, stand-still traffic is a uniformly despised pain. When you're stuck in traffic, you're on a journey all right, but you feel like you're getting nowhere. The full stops of life are even more disheartening. As you were...
I am not a quitter—and yet I have quit a time or two. Sometimes it’s smart to quit. I am not a loser and yet, I have lost a time or two. They say you can never win by quitting. And yet, sometimes that's exactly what it takes to win. Winning is not always about sheer...
In Psalm 91:11, we have a beautiful image of the Lord’s love and protection: He shall give His angels charge over you. Inside the Tabernacle were two angels made of gold, facing each other above the mercy seat. And it was there that the glory of the Lord appeared. God...
A little child, accompanying his father to a cemetery, noticed that on most gravestones were two dates separated by a hyphen. “Daddy,” he asked, “what’s the dash between the two numbers?” The father explained, “The first number represents the date when this person...
Have you ever lived through the water-rationing, dead plants, and discouragement of a drought? Brandt was a farmer who had labored three years into a devastating drought. The lack of rain meant that crops weren’t growing, and yet year after year, Brandt kept sowing...
When our Wonderful Creator designed our brains, He equipped them with natural "happy chemicals" that enhance our well-being. These four powerful chemicals—Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, and Serotonin—help shape our mood, energy, and overall happiness. Here’s a...
I see it quite often. It is not limited to gender, race, social position, financial status, or life accomplishment. It does not seem to be connected to the size of the problem or the breadth of the opposition. It is not related to failure. It is not determined by...
“I’ll be home by 9 o’clock.” But nine comes and he doesn’t show. The same thing is true of ten, and eleven. You finally hear the door at 11:50. “I thought you said you’d be home by 9 o’clock.” “Yeah, but something happened.” Then what about the line, “The check’s in...
Words are powerful and that goes for the words we say to ourselves all the time. Do an online search for "affirmations" and in 30 seconds, you'll have 245 million results. We have ourselves convinced that speaking positive words to ourselves or over ourselves will...