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~~~ Here's to Mom! ~~~ My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE WHAT I HAVE - "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going to kill each other…

SHARING YOUR FAITH IS NOT HARD Typically, a person wants to tell everyone about a gift he or she received. Yet many people treat salvation like it's some kind of secret. They know what a wonderful thing they have but they're reluctant to tell others. * Sharing is called many things. The Bible calls sharing…

I have heard of a fine gentleman in London, dressed in all his best, walking out in the park. He had a poor old father who lived in the country, and who came up dressed in his rustic clothes to see his son. As the son was not at home when the father reached the house, he went into the park to find him.…

In the dark and dreadful night, the destroying angel is let loose, with noiseless wings, and with a sharp sword that never misses its mark. He is speeding from house to house throughout all the land of Egypt, and from the firstborn of Pharaoh upon the throne to the firstborn of the slave woman behind…

The servant in your house, however diligent, is not your heir; for a servant to claim to be the heir would not be tolerated for a moment in a court of law. The servant may be able truthfully to say, “I have been in my master’s house these many years, neither have I transgressed at any time his commandments;…

Faith is like a metalworker who is about to prepare some work of fine art, such as smiths used to produce in the days of wrought iron. Faith, like a strong and vigorous smith, has love as its arm. Faith does not lift a finger without love. Faith believes and resolves, and then it proceeds to action,…

If I am a child of God, I learn to trust my Father. I do not know a more delightful act of childhood than trustfulness in a parent. And how often if we trust God we shall be rewarded! Yesterday, I received a note from one of the trustees of the orphanage to say that the running account was so low that,…

I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…

Michigan firefighter Brandon Mulvaney was one of several firefighters who received a late-night call about an animal trapped in a storm drain. When they arrived, they found a small kitten trapped below ground. Mulvaney climbed down a maintenance hole to reach the pipe with the trapped cat. He called…

A 13-year-old boy who was abandoned by his previous adoptive family found a new forever home with a very understanding parent. Tony Mutabazi had been in the foster care system since the age of two, and was adopted the first time at the age of 4. Seven years later he was left at a hospital and his parents…

Donnie Davis was Tristan Jacobson’s guardian. She wanted to adopt the 9-year-old was by his birth mother. She could not afford the $10,000 in legal fees so Tristan took matters into his own hands. He began selling lemonade on the street. His little stand began to attract hundreds of generous customers…

Communities across the United Kingdom are being invited to adopt the famous red telephones boxes. British Telecommunications has initiated a program to convince local communities to adopt and use local red telephone boxes that are no longer needed. The growth in mobile phone usage has rendered the boxes…

On a routine call in September, Albuquerque police officer Ryan Holets noticed a man and woman doing heroin behind a convenience store. The woman was not only injecting a needle into her companion's arm, she was also eight months pregnant. As Holets warned her of the damage she was doing to her baby,…

A stray dog is being called a hero after a passing motorist found the dog protecting a litter of kitten on a cold Canadian night. Authorities said the driver spotted the dog, named Serenity, curled up on the side of the road. When he stopped to check he found the dog curled up around five newborn kittens.…

In “Adopted for Life,” Russell Moore writes, “As soon as you peer into the truth of the one aspect, you fall headlong into the truth of the other, and vice versa. That’s because it’s the way the gospel is. Jesus reconciles us to God and to each other. As we love our God, we love our neighbor; as we love…

Authorities say a pet cat that was believed to have died along with its owner and 22 other people in a California mudslide in January 2018, unexpectedly returned. The Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Santa Barbara County said the cat, named Patches, was brought in as a stray, and a microchip scan…

When police officer Jason Smith saw a kitten stranded on the barrier wall of the freeway, he immediately stopped to rescue the cat. Footage from his body camera shows Smith removing the cat from the wall and bringing it into his patrol car, where it quickly calmed down and stopped making distressed cries.…

Maga Denes, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust says that Nazis forced her brother into the Danube River and then executed him. She describes the scene in an abortion clinic with the same force she saw in the killing fields of WW II. “I have seen brains spilled on sidewalks and crushed forever…

Damien was a 12-year-old with an autoimmune disease that was causing his kidneys to shut down. He lived in foster homes until the disease progressed to the point he had to be hospitalized. Without a stable home environment, and because a transplant involves a lot of loving care, Damien was ineligible…

In Everyone’s Favorite Space Cowboy, Din Djarin, is fleeing from a post-imperial attack aimed at seizing from him the precious little asset known as “the Child,” who’s often colloquially referred to as “baby Yoda.” As the Mandalorian and his posse make their way to a secret hideout, they discover his…

We live in an instant world where we expect to have real-time communication with others. However, technology does not always meet our expectations. On Feb. 14, 2019 users sent well over 150,000 text messages that did not arrive until early November of 2019 due to a problem with one of Syniverse’s servers.…

Sandi, a pit-bull-boxer mix is a 12-year-old dog who had been living at the Marion-Grant County Humane Society shelter longer than any of the current employees have worked there. The staff said Sandi had been there so long, no one knew much about her past. They only knew she had been in the shelter for…

Bitcoin is a type of Cryptocurrency that started as an obscure investment but has developed into one of the hottest commodities in the mainstream market. At first, this currency was the favored currency on the dark web. It was used to buy drugs, murder for hire and other illegal activities. However,…

Animal welfare officials and police in Fort Wayne, Indiana say a puppy found by a trash collector in the back of a garbage truck was adopted within hours. The trash collector found the 5-month-old female Pitt Bull Terrier mix after his finished his route along one street. He wasn’t sure where he picked…

When Chelsey Haley finished school and began teaching, she joined the Teach for America program to make a difference in a low-income school. She never expected to encounter a boy named Jerome, who made her question her motives and future as a teacher. She went to an elementary school in Louisiana, where…