The Lost Speech and a Clever Save

  It was a fine evening aboard a grand ocean liner sailing across the Atlantic—white-gloved waiters, glittering cutlery, and the kind of din...

Someone Who Understands

  The sun was already high when the farmer hammered the last nail into a wooden sign that read: “Puppies for Sale.” He stepped back, wipi...

The Wallet and the One Who Never Leaves

  He was just another old man on a pilgrimage train—quiet, soft-spoken, with eyes that held a world of stories. Nobody really noticed him at...

The Banquet of Hands

  One chilly evening, as the fire crackled in the hearth, a curious little boy turned to his father and asked, “Dad, what’s the real differ...

The Kindness That Came Back

  It was one of those long, dragging days. Howard, a young college student trying to pay his way through school, had been walking door to do...

The Boy Who Noticed

  The sun was already high when an old man stopped to rest beneath a shady tree, his donkey beside him, loaded with two sacks of wheat. He d...

Why She Gave It Away

She had walked these mountain paths many times before. The air was cool, the stream water sharp and clear. As she bent to fill her flask, so...

🧡 Freckles and Wrinkles

It was a sunny Saturday, perfect for the zoo. Margaret held her grandson’s hand as they wandered from one animal exhibit to the next. Owen w...

Who's packing your Parachute?

Charles Plumb, a US Navy Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surfac...

A Powerful Message of Life and Reality - The Three Stringed Violin

  On November 18th, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York ...

Flowers of sorrow.

  We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 33 years ago. During the early morning ride from the suburb, ...

A Story of change - Small Victories

Standing in the noisy cafeteria of the old school, I was watching the students line up for lunch. Having wearied of trying to "cut...

The Good News with a Surprise! and Bad News with a Shock!!

  The soldiers had been in the field for two  weeks and hadn't had showers or been able  to change their clothes.  Then one day the Gene...

The Congregation of liers

  At the end of mass one Sunday a priest told the  congregation, "Next week, I plan to talk to you all about the sin of lying. To help ...

The Trouble Tree - Just Hang Your Problems Here

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour ...

Desire, Belief, Expectation - The 3 Mighty Forces of Power

Events can be manipulated to solve problems you are faced with. You can change things you're not satisfied with.  While there...