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If I were asked to visit you tomorrow evening, I am sure you would make some preparations for my call—even for one so commonplace as myself. You would prepare, because you would welcome me. If you expected the Queen to call, how excited you would be! What preparation good housewives would make for a…

In the center of my lawn, horseradish will sprout up. After the smallest shower of rain, it rises above the grass and proclaims its vitality. There was a garden there once, and this root maintains its old position. When the gardener cuts it down, it resolves to rise again. Now, if the gardener cannot…

See the sentry pace the rampart. He looks in one direction and he sees the brushwood stirred; he half thinks it is the foe, and suspects an ambush there. He looks to the front, across the sea—does he not discern a sail in the distance? The attack may be from the seaboard. He looks to the right, across…

A child would generally stand on his feet in a gust of wind if he knew it was coming. But when the wind happens to come around a corner furiously, he may be taken off his feet. Mind you are well ballasted by prayer every morning before your vessel puts out to sea, or carrying the quantity of sail you…

Years ago, when they dug into a disused pit in a village, they took up some old rags, and as a consequence nearly all the people in that village died of the plague. They did not know what was in the old rags buried in the pit. So we are afraid of the old rags of sin; we do not like digging them up. Spurgeon,…

I remember talking once to a lady who assured me again and again that she prayed daily for me that I might be kept humble. I told her that I would pray the same prayer for her. When she said, “Oh, I am never tempted to be proud,” I replied, “Well, dear friend, I am afraid you are very far gone in that…

In the long line of portraits of the Doges in the palace at Venice one space is empty, and the semblance of a black curtain remains as a melancholy record of glory forfeited. Found guilty of treason against the state, Marino Falieri was beheaded and his image as far as possible blotted from remembrance.…

Jackie wore the same shirt to her company’s zoom meetings during the pandemic. She knew that someone would say something, but they didn’t—not even when she finally broke down and said something about it herself on her final day of work. No one had noticed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-hawaiian-shirt-264-times-zoom-meetings_n_60d387f0e4b06005129e14a9…

A mama bear and her cubs were perched atop a cinder block fence in Bradbury, California when the dogs that lived in the backyard responded by running toward the intruders and barking at them. The mama bear did what mama bears do, she started swatting at the dogs. Hailey Morinico, a teenage girl looked…

Jesse Johnson of the Las Cruces, NM Fire Department answered a call on March 28, 2021, to help an Albertson’s shopper. The shopper left the windows of his car down as he ran into the store to buy a few things. As he was driving away, he discovered that he had a few unwanted passengers aboard—there were…

The Golden Globe Awards, pandemic style in 2021 had the nominees at home watching the show and being filmed simultaneously. The twitterverse went crazy when it appeared that Al Pacino was sleeping (or looking down so it appeared that his eyes were closed) during his category-- Best Actor in a Television…

Nick Slatten was excited to tell his fiancée that he’d won $1,178,746.00 in the Tennessee Lottery, so he headed over to her work, taking the ticket with him. Afterward, he ran some errands but later discovered that he’d lost the ticket—so he retraced his steps, finding the ticket about an hour later…

Maybe you’ve heard before that without a shepherd to follow, sheep will follow sheep, even if it kills them. That happened recently in Istanbul, Turkey. Following the sheep in front of them, one at a time, 1500 sheep jumped off a cliff. Where were the shepherds? They had left the flock to graze as they…

An unnamed resident of Lake Worth Beach, Florida has an interesting 14-year-old pet parrot. His neighbors heard someone screeching from inside his house. “Let me out!” “Let me out!” the voice called. They did what any good citizen would do. They called 911. When four sheriff’s deputies arrived, they…

Signs around the Baunei on the island of Sardina warn tourists in Italian and English that they should not follow directions on Google Maps while on the island. Mayor Salvatore Corrias said they received 144 emergency calls over the past two years from drivers and hikers who got stranded or lost while…

Steel Lafferty was concentrating on his approach to the green when a 7-foot Alligator strolled in front of him. Lafferty didn’t notice. When asked about his steel nerves, Lafferty said, “I had to make par on the hole because we had a bet going and I was more worried about winning the bet than getting…

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…

After all their other efforts failed, National Grid announced they would bring a cannon to scare away hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. The utility company said they were removing the birds because if one landed on the wrong piece of equipment,…

Earlier this year in Cape Wrath, Scotland, Mark Elder was dragged off the fishing vessel North Star, pulled underwater and drowned. Although his fellow crewmen watched as he became tangled in a rope and was pulled off the ship, they were unable to locate and rescue him before he succumbed to the cold…

Dylan McWilliams has survived a rattlesnake bite in Utah, a black bear mauling in Colorado, and a shark attack near Kauai. What are the odds? While three deadly encounters are rare, there is one that you can count on. Satan is always poised to attack followers of Jesus Christ and we must be alert. —Jim…

The United States government has released a new rule that requires hybrid and electric cars to make noise when traveling at low speeds in order to protect pedestrians. The rule is designed to prevent about 2,400 pedestrian injuries a year, by making the nearly silent vehicles more noticeable, especially…

We need to be as diligent as possible when dealing with money. Olesja Schemjakowa received her bank statement and discovered a charge for 7,709.90 Swiss francs for a cup of coffee and a cake. The Russian woman had ordered the snack at a Swiss café and paid for it with her credit card. She discovered…

New research suggests that smartphones are influencing the way people think, even when they are not using them. Adrian Ward of the University of Texas at Austin led a team that conducted experiments to test how smartphones affect the ability to think and function in the world “off-screen” Researchers…

A Kentucky pastor says he gained a new appreciation for God’s care over him after a serious accident in a church van. Pastor Gary Kirby was driving the van with 14 kids inside when a tire blew out. The blow out sent the van across the road and into a ditch. Kirby said no one died in the crash, although…

When Ohio State University student Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car onto the sidewalk on the OSU campus he hit multiple pedestrians and later stabbed several more with a knife. Another student, Armand Ghazi said, “He seemed like he was there for one reason—to do as much damage as he could.” What a perfect…