STORY: How To Make A Job Easy by Corinne Updegraff Wells

Story title: How To Make A Job Easy
by: Corinne Updegraff Wells


When I was small, my brothers and I were expected to keep the vegetable garden weeded. Of course, we hated the job and we would put it off as long as possible and usually we ended up using a precious Saturday catching up on our work.
    One day a visiting uncle rambled into the garden and saw us there scowling at our work. He stopped and asked, "Do you boys know why you're pulling those weeds? It's because they are

STORY: A Home Is Where

Story title: A Home Is Where

    A real estate agent met a very modern woman, who had grown up in a big city. He tried to interest her in buying a new home.
    "A home!" she snapped."Why do I need a home? I was born in a hospital, grew up in boarding schools, was educated in a college, did my company keeping in automobiles, and was married in a church.

STORY: Learning To Fall by Rev Wm Phifer

Story title: Learning To Fall
by : Rev Wm Phifer


     What we today call the youth culture is really not new. Through the ages, young people have made significant contributions. Consider the accomplishments of these"kids":
    Alfred Tennyson wrote his first classic at 18.
    Napoleon had conquered Italy when he was 25.

STORY: Sunday Collection by Douglas Woodruff

Story title: Sunday Collection
By: Douglas Woodruff

    They tell the story about two English coins: the red penny and the valuable half crown. As they were being manufactured in the Royal Mint, they got acquainted. They passed along the assembly lines near one another, and as they left, to be put into circulation in the country, they decided to keep in touch and tell the story of their adventures whenever they met.

STORY: One Day At A Time by Les Stanwood

Story title: One Day At A Time
By: Les Stanwood

      When 52 Americans were held hostage at the embassy in Teheran, Iran, Thomas Schaefer was the senior military officer of the group. Of a total of 444 day in captivity, he spent more than 100 in solitary confinement.

STORY: Yesterday, Today, Tommorow by Gems of Thought

Story title: Yesterday, Today, Tommorow
by Gems of Thoughts

Today is in the full bloom of life,

The petals of yesterday have shriveled into the past.

Tomorrow is an unopened but.

Today is a gorgeous blossom of beauty and fragrance.

It is yours-for today.

Today is a new page in the book of life.

It awaits your pen.

STORY: Blacks And Whites by Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

Story title: Blacks And Whites
By: Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

    Some years ago a missionary revisited a congregation in Tanzania. After the service, the pastor called upon the oldest member of the congregation to present the gift they had for the visitor. Barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, the man carried in his crippled hands a baton carved from ebony wood and wrapped in an old newspaper. Ebony is normally very black, but there may be light spots where branches have grown out of the tree's trunk. The baton had a sizeable light spot at one end.