John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library.
Taking a book off …
Two guys are walking through the woods and come across this really big, deep hole.
“Wow.. that looks deep!” “Sure does. Toss a few pebbles in there and see how deep it is.” They pick up a few pebbles, throw them in, and wait…..no noise. “That is REALLY deep… here throw one these big rocks and see how long it …
Bob Richards, the former pole-vault champion, shares a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart.
Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the other boys, he got absolutely nowhere.
At all the games, this hopeful athlete sat on the bench and hardly ever played.
This …
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule ‘braying’ — or –whatever mules do when they fall into wells.
After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of …
A flock of wild ducks were flying in formation, heading south for the winter. They formed a beautiful V in the sky, and were admired by everyone who saw them from below.
One day, Wally, one of the wild ducks in the formation, spotted something on the ground that caught his eye. It was a barnyard with a flock of …
A farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of burden: among them was his favourite donkey, that was always well fed and often carried his master. With the Farmer came his Lapdog, who danced about and licked his hand and frisked about as happy as could be. The Farmer felt in his pocket, gave the …
“This is a reminder of the legacy we have been given and the responsibility we have to pass it on to our children and those that we mentor by our example and words.
He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from a dock at his family’s cabin on an island in the middle of a …
Two boys went ice fishing. They were sitting only a few feet apart, but one boy noticed that while he was catching nothing the other boy kept catching fish every time he put the worm in the water.
So the first little boy asked the other boy, “What’s your secret?”
The other replied, ” Ma motta meep ma Morms merm!”…
The Master called my name one day because he needed someone to go.
I said “Lord, in my spare time, between school, spending time with my husband, working from 8 to 6, and trying to coordinate a program for my community to help our children do better, I will help you look”.
“See, I know I can’t go right now …
Of the many Olympic events, to win the Marathon is one of the most prestigious. Yet in the 1968 Olympic Marathon, it is not the winner, the one who finished first, who is most remembered, but the runner who finished last.
Darkness was falling. Only a few thousand spectators remained in the stadium. The Marathon had been won over an …