Today I want to share something that happened a few years ago on Halloween. I was home on duty at the door. The little goblin, princess, vampire, and ghost traffic was just becoming steady. You know, the time that the door barely closes before the bell rings again followed by an anxious “trick or treat!” [...]
Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place” shares the wonderful personality of her Father, one of Haarlem’s watchmakers. Corrie says this of him: “Father was as innocent of business know-how as his father had been before him. He would work for days on a difficult repair problem and then forget to send a bill. The more [...]
I have wept in the night For the shortness of sight That to somebody’s need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret For being a little too kind. – Anonymous At the end of the day, how are we going to fair? Are we going to weep for the [...]
Today’s lesson is a bit different than most of the others. Kadan J Bradley who is also a member of Life’s Golden Rule editorial staff has written a children’s book titled “God’s Glasses”. LGR is in the process of illustrating this book and then we are going to have it published! As a Full Paying [...]
Lesley Ann Shaw is a youth basketball coach. Her team is always very successful. She wrote a poem that captures how she teaches her team to have that success: When your back is against the wall And you feel like you’ve given it your all Dig deep and embrace The challenge you are about to [...]
When something is thought, it changes the mind. When you stop to write your thoughts down it can change many minds. In the book The Three Deceivers, Richard Eyre gives some advice about making a recording of your daily experiences. “Think for a minute . . . . about others you have interacted with, made [...]
We live in a technological world. Within seconds we can contact anyone in the world… and through many different ways. A phone call, a text, an email, a facebook message, a tweet. It’s a miracle, if you think about it. It is an amazing tool that makes the world small enough that we can help [...]
I have always taught my kids that we are judged not by what happens to us but by how we handle what happens to us. The other day I was reading in a great book by Richard M Eyre, “The Three Deceivers.” He was talking about one of the deceivers, control, and brought up this [...]
The Daily Lesson two days ago talked about a friend of mine that had a miracle happen to her and her family. She told me the story during a group conversation that I was having with a few friends. I asked the question, “Can anyone think of a time in their life when someone really [...]
My parents and three siblings were running some errands downtown the other day. When it was time for them to head back home they got in the car and turned the key to start it, only to find that the car battery had died. It was getting dark and rain clouds were gathering. They didn’t [...]