Are You Just a Number?
There is an old riddle in the Jewish Talmud that asks: “Why did the Tower of Babel fall?” The answer: “Because the leaders of the project were more interested in the work…
One day I needed a flashlight to shed some light on a drip in the cabinet beneath my sink. I found a flashlight I hadn’t used in almost two years. …
Some time ago a newspaper in England asked this question: "Who are the happiest people on earth?" These were the four prize-winning answers: • A craftsman or artist whistling over a…
A hundred feet above the Apurimac River, near the remote village of Huinchiri, Peru there is a suspension bridge that connects the Limi-Cuzzo Road. It has been there since the…
There was a mother mouse who decided to teach her little mice about the world. So she gathered all of her little ones and set out for a walk. They…
The late Roman Catholic priest and prolific writer on the spiritual life, Henri Nouwen (1932-1996), felt God call him from his faculty position at Yale University to live with the poor…
Both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation's deserts. All vultures see is rotting meat, because that is what they look for. They thrive on that diet. But…
Two men went up in a hot-air balloon one April morning. Suddenly they were enveloped by clouds and lost track of where they were. They drifted for what seemed like…
Babe Ruth and baseball go together like bacon and eggs. For over 22 seasons “The Bambino” achieved many Major League Baseball hitting and pitching records. He hit 714 home runs, batted…