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THE MIDDLE C OF LIFE You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes.…

THE IDEAL WIFE Always beautiful and cheerful. Could have married movie stars but wanted only you. Beauty that won’t run in a rainstorm. Never sick. Just allergic to jewelry and fur coats. Insists that moving furniture by herself is good for her figure. Expert in cooking, cleaning the house, fixing the…

You will miss your comfort when you begin to neglect your work. I know how it used to be with the boys at home. In cold weather they huddled round the fire, almost sat on the fire. It was so cold that they could not tell how they would live through the bitter winter. But when father came in, he said,…

The form of godliness without the power is not worth the trouble it takes to put it together and keep it together. Imitation jewels are pretty and brilliant, but if you take them to the jeweler he will give you nothing for them. There is a religion that is all paste gems—a godliness that glitters but…

The man that has seen affliction, when he is blessed of God, has the disposition to cheer those that are afflicted. I have heard speak of a lady who was out in the snow one night, and was so very cold that she cried out, “Oh, those poor people that have such a little money! How little fuel they have,…

I have often felt, when I have been rambling in the Alps, that nature was too small to set forth God. The mirror is not large enough to reflect the face of the Eternal. You stand in the Alps and hear the avalanche like claps and peals of thunder resounding in the air. You gaze afar off and there it is,…

There have been some men who, puffed up with vanity, have in their hearts said, “I can do all things.” Their destruction has been sure, and near at hand. Nebuchadnezzar walks through the midst of the great city; he sees its stupendous tower threading the clouds. He marks the majestic and colossal size…

Holiness is not the cause of spiritual life and safety; faith is the wellspring of all. In the spring you see the hawthorn covered with a delicious luxuriance of snow-white flowers, loading the air with fragrance, but no one among the admiring gazers supposes that those sweet blossoms caused the hawthorn…

When your adventurous spirit has sought to climb some lofty mountain, delighted with the prospect you scale many and many a precipice. Onward you climb up the rocky crags until at last you arrive at the verge of the snow and ice. There, in the midst of precipices that scarcely know a bottom and of summits…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

A wildlife camera in California captured footage of a mother bald eagle keeping her eggs warm while covered in several inches of snow. The Nest Cam in Big Bear was set up by a wildlife group can shows a bald eagle, nicknamed Jackie covered in three or four inches of fresh snow as she tended to her eggs.…

Authorities in Minot, North Dakota say a man who tried to steal over $4,000 in products from a Hobby Lobby store was foiled by snow. 22-year-old Dustin Johnson tired to push the stolen merchandise across the parking lot but got stuck in the snow, and tipped the cart over. Johnson escaped by running away,…

Reindeer are designed to survive the extremes of the Artic. “As they roam, they look for patches of lichen or moss to dig up from beneath the Artic snow.” A reindeer-nerd notes, “Somehow the reindeer doesn’t even mind the cold weather.” Many of these animals are no longer entirely wild. “The Sami people…

A Romanian university wanted to know if it is safe to eat snow, so they conducted an experiment to answer the question. Scientists collected snow from a park and another location in central Romania in January and February, and then tried to grow bacteria and mold in the samples. Istvan Mathe, professor…

A ventilation problem at a Lindt chocolate factory in Olten, Switzerland created a once-in-a-lifetime event for the Swiss village. The chocolate manufacturer says the fault launched cocoa powder into the air outside the factory and wind carried it across town, leaving a fine dusting of chocolate on houses…

After traveling beyond the orbit of Pluto, the New Horizon’s spacecraft continues to send back data about distant objects in space. The spacecraft encountered what scientists originally called a space snowman. They said the 22-mile long object resembles a snow man and is likely made up of methane. It…

As he prepared to graduate with an aviation degree, Gavin Becker decided to use his piloting skills to propose to his girlfriend. He used a snow blower to carve a giant message in the snow on a frozen lake. He wrote the words “Marry Me” surrounded by an oversized heart and offered to take his longtime…

Cory Krambule only planned to take a short hike in the Utah wilderness, when a sudden snowstorm overwhelmed him. As a result, he could not find his way back to camp. He tried to get back to his camp, but eventually gave up and decided to light a small fire. He spent the night huddling over the fire trying…

The police department in Depew, New York put up a joking social media post saying that they had arrested winter. After much of the state experienced wintry weather and power outages caused by high winds, the department said they had taken action and that any more snow winter produced would be held against…

A random act of kindness got a Kansas City man named Dave tickets to the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots. Chief’s Offensive linesman Jeff Allen got stuck in the snow on his way to the game with the Indianapolis Colts. Allen said a nice guy named Dave stopped…

As wildfires ravaged California in 2018, the city of Paradise was essentially destroyed. Amidst the fire and destruction, families fled their homes, leaving everything behind. The Copsey family was one of the many families that left as the fire raced toward their home. In their haste, they were unable…

Nine-year-old Dane Best took on the authorities in the town of Severance, Colorado and convinced them to rescind a century-old ban on snowball fights. The Colorado town gets a lot of snow and Best thought it was keep thinking about snowballs fights from the time he learned that the town had outlawed…

The US postal service creed says, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” but it doesn’t say anything about turkeys. Mail carriers in Ohio said a rafter of wild turkeys kept them from getting the mail to more than two…

Venezuelan Adrian Solano nearly fell at the starting gate of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Finland. Then after a wobbling start, he took a tumble at one of the first curves, repeatedly falling while making it about one-third the way around the course before he ran out of time. An examination…

In the winter of 2014 -2015, the tower of snow that the city of Boston piled up was a constant reminder of a winter that seemed to have to have no end. By the time, the snow stopped falling; the pile had grown to be 75 feet high. Though it reminded residents of a winter than made them shiver, there were…