Joy In Calamity?
Celebrate bankruptcy? How foolish that seems to us! Yet author Leo Buscaglia’s mother did just that.
Joy In Living And Victory In Dying
Having lost his beloved wife of many years, a 96-year-old man shared the deep longing of his heart with a retired pastor as he said, “There’s nothing I want more than to be with my wife again.”
Cannibalism
A number of years ago, I had a night out with my 4-year-old son. Halfway through our hamburgers, I detected rumblings in the booth behind me. The muffled anger in a man’s voice soon erupted in a snarl, “What did you say?” A woman shot back, “I said I’d never come crawling to you. I couldn’t get that low.” I cringed as he cursed at her and said, “I don’t know why I ever brought you to this restaurant tonight.” “I do,” she said. “You’ve got a guilty conscience!”
The Beauty Of Life
Author and scientist Carl Sagan says that the material world is the only reality. If we accept this premise, then nature has been cruel to us, giving us, as someone has cynically phrased it, “the endowments of a god and the career of an insect.”
What Would You Do?
I shall never forget being in the “big blackout” of November 1965. Not just one city or one county or one locality was involved in this widespread power outage, but eight states and a part of Canada—covering a total of 80,000 square miles and affecting 30 million people.
Jumping To Illusions
How frustrating to have someone interrupt you, thinking he knows what you’re about to say and then jumping to a conclusion! We’ve all done that. We’ve jumped to “illusions” about what the person was actually saying. We’ve heard the words that were spoken, but we didn’t really listen to what was being said. And what misunderstanding has resulted!
A Change Of Heart
Have you heard about the man who took his old car to a dealer and asked him to sell it for him? When the dealer asked how many miles were on it, the man replied, “It’s got 230,000.” The salesman replied, “It’ll never sell unless you turn back the mileage.” So the man left.
Bad Gifts
A new York City couple received through the mail two tickets to a smash Broadway hit. Oddly, the gift arrived without a note, and they wondered who had sent it. But they still attended the show and enjoyed it immensely.
Supermen And Airplanes
My daughter travels all over the world as a flight attendant and often comes home with some fascinating tales. One such story is about former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who was seated in an aircraft that was preparing for takeoff. A flight attendant, noticing that he did not have his seatbelt fastened, asked him kindly, “Excuse me, sir, but would you mind fastening your seatbelt?”
