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There was a blind, poor and childless beggar who prayed every day that God would reverse his fate. “Dear God, have pity on me!” he prayed. One day God heard his…
I remember my older brother Tom, who I often disagree with, saying to me one day, “Do you know why God put me in your life?...To teach YOU patience!” Truer words…
Evangelist Tony Campolo says that in his teenage years he was terrified by a visiting pastor's depiction of Judgment Day. This pastor claimed that one day God would show us a movie of every…
A farmer lived on the same farm all his life. It was a good farm, but with the passing years, the farmer began to tire of it. He longed for…
A certain young woman began a journey that led her to five cities in quest of her one true love. She found him in the first city and fell completely…
I grew up on the North side of the city of Chicago. I attended St. Peter Canisius Grammar School. The nuns who taught there encouraged us to stop in the…
Late one afternoon I was walking out of my parish church in Chicago. I was chagrined to see a forlorn-looking man coming toward me. He was a drifter. I’m sure…
By midlife, many of us have become accomplished fugitives from our TRUE selves. We try to fit into the mindsets and the lifestyles of those around us. Maybe we become…
After the first World War, a 100 years ago, the United States gave vast sums of money to the dislocated orphans of Europe, but they still didn’t have enough money…