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Many great ideas have been lost because of people who had them couldn’t stand being laughed at. Reader’s Digest, March 1978, page 36

In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Doug Cummings writes: Lonnie Edwards, a physical-education instructor...was explaining square-dancing to his 5th grade class at Hooper Alexander Elementary School in DeKalb County, GA. As he called the children to their places, boy-girl, boy-girl, Nancy, a little…

Plutarch tells a pretty story of how an epidemic of suicide among the women of Miletus was suddenly and completely ended by an ordinance decreeing tht self-slain women should be carried naked through the marketplace to their burial. The Story of Civilization II, The Life of Greece, by Will Durant, page…

At the end of their first date, a young man takes his favorite girl home. Emboldened by the night, he decides to try for that important first kiss. With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, he says to her, "Darling, how 'bout a goodnight kiss?" Horrified, she replies,…

According to the Chicago Tribune, on Monday August 26, 1996, tragedy struck a Fort Lauderdale, FL family. Two boys found their 12-year old brother dead in their yard. He had hanged himself from a tree. Beneath the tree were a step stool and a flashlight. There was little mystery about what had provoked…

When Cory was 2 years old, he was swinging an attachment from the vaccuum cleaner around and happened to hit the wall, making a two inch scuff mark on the wall. The mark couldn't be taken off by cleaning it. It need to be completely painted over. Cory felt so guilty about the scuff on the wall that he…

His Hands Are Re-Forming The Potter’s skillful hands re-form as well as form us. Remember the potter from Jeremiah 18. When he saw that the vessel seemed marred, he squeezed the clay into a new lump and started to re-form it. Sometimes we think we’re unusable and even unredeemable. We’ve done something…