A Picture Of Peace

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The...

Did God Make Evil? A Professors Thoughts

At a certain college, there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the first class every semester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade and mock their statement of faith One semester, he asked the question and a...

A Tear To The Eye

Barbara was driving her six-year-old son, Benjamin, to his piano lesson. They were late, and Barbara was beginning to think she should have cancelled it. There was always so much to do, and Barbara, a night-duty nurse at the local hospital, had recently worked extra...

Comes To Encourage

I required knee surgery a few years ago; I prayed a lot before surgery asking God to guide the hands of all those in the theatre and to bring me safely out of the anesthetic. I apparently inhaled too deeply the anesthetic and had a hard time coming back into...

The Brightest Day

August 26, 1999 is a day that many New Yorkers would probably like to forget. However, this New Yorker will always remember that day because that is the day that I learned what a powerful gift appreciation can truly be. On August 26, 1999, New York City experienced a...

Lizzie Velasquez : Hi, I’m Lizzie

When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed “The World’s Ugliest Woman” in an 8-secon…d-long YouTube video. Born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it, Velasquez has no...