REFLECTION

You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is... More...

The Awakening

A time comes in your life when you finally get it... when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and begin to... More...

Ben Stein's Confession - CBS Sunday Morning - Commentary

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened... I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are... Christmas trees. More...

Cosmic Occurrences that Affect Our Planet and Ourselves

It has been hard not to notice the recent weather changes on our planet and wonder what might be causing this phenomenon. As I write this in January 2008 in PA, the temperature is 70 degrees. The mild weather this week has wrought an unusual out-of-season swarm of 23 tornadoes in the Midwest that destroyed many homes and killed two people. More...

Canine Tales and Tidbits - A collection of stories and poems about our furry friends

DOG, My Friend

Rainbow Bridge

Welcome at Rainbow Bridge

Lend Me A Dog

Walkin' In A Doggie Wonderland

Gotta Laugh Links

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Coty's Gift - A canine after-death gift for anyone who ever had to put down a pet

In a temporary moment of insanity, after we lost our first dog, we adopted from the Internet a liver Dalmatian named Coty who was totally wild. Day one he started playfully lunging at our throats and tried to jump out the window at the vet's office... shaking and whimpering the whole time. More...

The Dash - Two-minute video about reflection... definitely worth watching!

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Footprints in the Sand - by Mary Stevenson

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: One belonged to him, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, You said that once I decided to follow You, You'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why, when I needed you most, you would leave me." The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child. I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

God / Allah Redefined - A challenge to terrorists around the world

Throughout this article it is presumed that God is not a who or a what. There is no word in the English language to accurately describe God so, although we can talk about the concept of God, we can never really pinpoint a simple and concise definition. More...

Interview with God - Thought-provoking silent power point presentation

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Grieving - A collection of writings to help deal with death

The Clock of Life

The Lady in the Harbor

A Million Times

Death

I'm Free

The Armed Guards - A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church

"While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point." More...

Hole in the Fence

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks... More...

Kid's Korner - A collection of up-lifting stories and poems for Children

How Butterflies Came To Be

The Three Trees

Winkin, Blinkin and Nod (or) Dutch Lullaby

Little Boy Blue

The Elf and the Dormouse

The Giving Tree

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Lucky's Love - A dog's love saves a life

... Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and John had company come for a weekend visit they would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably, someone would forget and something would turn up missing. More...

Nobody Knows It But Me - by Patrick O'Leary

There's a place that I travel when I want to roam and nobody knows it but me.

The roads don't go there and the signs stay home -- and nobody knows it but me.

It's far, far away and way, way afar. It's over the moon and the sea.

And wherever you're going, that's wherever you are, and nobody knows it but me.

One Solitary Life

A child is born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He is brought up in another obscure village. He works in a carpenter shop until he is thirty, and then for three brief years is an itinerant preacher, proclaiming a message and living a life. He never writes a book. He never holds an office. He never raises an army. He never has a family of his own. More...

The Paradox of Our Time

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. More...

Pongo's Nose - This is a true story of a small miracle that happened in answer to a prayer

It was a sunny day in early November 2000. The woods surrounding the house were losing their colorful leaves. Crisp autumn freshness was in the air. There were no bugs, flies or mosquitoes anywhere. Our 6 1/2 year old Dalmatian, Pongo, had died suddenly five months earlier of an aneurysm. He was still missed and continually in my heart and on my mind. More...

Trees - by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear a nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.

Vietnam - by a soldier killed in combat 9/3/68

Take a man, then put him alone. Put him 12,000 miles from home.
Empty his heart of all but blood. Make him live in sweat and mud.
This is the life I have to live and why my soul to the devil I give. More...

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

I saw you feed a stray cat and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.

I saw you make my favorite cake for me and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life.

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What if...

If we could shrink the earth's population to precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: More...