Brand-spanking new.
Isn’t that something we all see as positive?
The old cooking range with its wood-fired oven or a newly built electronic one?
A 1935 Cadillac touring car or the shine on a new ...
In the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, one of the great classics of all time, the Englishman Sydney Carton switches places with French aristocrat Charles Darnay, who is about to ...
At what point is a sacrifice worth the trade? It does involve a trade, after all. In a story of a boy diagnosed with bone cancer, his parents gave their time, love, and financial resources in trade ...
Why are wrapped packages so special to us?
We don’t know what’s inside. Until we look at the card, we don’t even know who it’s from.
Uncle Bob might have given us a piece of coal because of ...
We love the idea of getting something for free, but most “freebies” aren’t really free at all. We trade our time and resources for the “free” veggies we grow in our backyard garden. That ...
“I have loved you with an everlasting love …”
― Jeremiah 31:3 ―
Everlasting love ... that sounds pretty unbreakable to me. And the word everlasting goes both ways, into the past and ...
Bright lights, shiny bows, and cheerful music.
Christmas is all it’s built up to be. Happiness abounds, and the holiday magic lifts us to heights of joy.
Except when it doesn’t.
The real issue ...
Catch a flight with a layover. What’s your connection? Can you make it? Did you leave yourself enough time to get from one gate to another?
The destination is important, but if you miss your ...
An Internet blogger told this story about money:
A young man, 23, decided he didn’t want to work.
“Not for me! I prefer to play video games.”
He decided he could sidestep the employment line ...
A plaster (or band aid, for the American reader) is a fix for what ails us.
The old-English origin of the word means a bandage with something extra, a curative substance intended to help with the ...
So, your house was repossessed. That’s pretty awful.
A flat tire on the way to work, and that’s the reason you were fired? Man, sympathies to you.
What was said about you on social media? ...
Watch out, watch out!
Isn’t that what we say? Look out for what’s coming our way so that we can avoid the consequences.
Here are 7 Times to Take Care so that we can find success through ...
Who do you trust?
The cashier at the service station? Your postman? Maybe the butcher or your doctor …
Who do you love?
Your spouse … children … parents or other treasured family ...
