Showing posts with label J-. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J-. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

STORY : Joy In Suffering by Joel Fritz

Story title : Joy In Suffering
by: Joel Fritz

    I remember a crippled man in the hospital where I was chaplain for a few years.  He was unbelievably disfigured. His body was twisted like a corkscrew and all he could do was sit in bed, day and night. If someone came to visit him, he could not even turn his head enough to make eye contact.
    Whenever I came around to visit him, my standard greeting would be, "Well, how are thing today?"

Saturday, February 20, 2010

STORY: Johnny, The Walker by George Will

Story title: Johnny, The Walker
by: George Will

  Let us consider the virtues of walking. It is wine of life, good for body and soul, as many well-known people agree.
    Samuel Johnson walked 52 kilometers of muddy road out of Birmingham, England, every day. The philosopher Immanuel Kant walked so regularly through town that the shopkeepers set their clocks by