At one busy airport there was a long line of travelers waiting to buy tickets.  The line grew so long and moved so slowly that patience was wearing thin. At…

Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than 1,000 other things. By December, 1914 Edison had worked for 10 years…

There was a man who in a time of a business recession lost his job, a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home.  To add to his sorrow, his precious wife…

There's an old story told of a native from a remote mountain village who had the opportunity to visit a large modern city for the first time. He could not bring…

H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of dozens of novels and short stories. Wells wrote an essay on a tribe of people he called the "Goodness Sakers".  These were…

There is a legend that says many years ago an old man stood on a Virginia riverbank.  He was waiting to cross the river and, since it was bitterly cold…

Luiqi Tarisio (1796-1854) was found dead one morning with hardly any creature comforts in his home, except the presence of 246 exquisite violins. He was an Italian violin dealer and…

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it, nothing is possible.   The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely…

A little boy who was just learning about addition and subtraction in school looked up one Sunday morning during the service at church. He saw the cross sitting on the…