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Obsessed With Possessions
I was fascinated by a story in the news awhile ago The story came out of Sydney, Australia where police suggest “a bicycle enthusiast became a little obsessed with his hobby later in life after discovering 435 bikes in his house after his death…It took police seven days to remove the bikes along with hundreds […]
Wisdom for today
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.
Obituary
Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more than a normal person’s share […]
Nit’s Chief Picker
I cannot count the number of hours I work each week. I work for a company called NIT. I have been with them for years and have now been promoted to the position of Chief Picker. There are thousands of employees worldwide, but it seems we always have room for one more. Despite the cruel […]
Nails In The Fence
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it […]
Are You Ready To Change?
a.. Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. (Anthony J. D’Angelo) b.. Nothing endures but change. (Heraclitus). c.. Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. (Goethe). d.. The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of […]
How Do I Begin The Change Process?
Many folk have asked me over the years exactly how to start to change. I have been in that position too. Sometimes we are very aware that we need to change, but there are so many areas to work on, that we do not have a clue where to begin. This is a most horrible […]
Quotes on evil and goodness
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal ‘The worst evils in the world are not done by evil people, but by good people who do not know they are not doing good’ – Reinhold Niebuhr “Half the harm that is done in this […]
Letting the Past Be Past
Is it difficult for you to forgive? To let the past be past? It is for me. Nearly impossible sometimes. I’m a little like the elderly Virginian woman who lived to see her beloved Richmond occupied by Union troops after the American Civil War. The matron was walking down a Richmond street when she tripped […]
Self-Justification
Self-Justification (from Kim Thoday) Self-Justification is the golden vein of truth that binds together every big lie. – Kim Thoday, Hewett Community Church of Christ, South Australia
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