Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 24, 2023
If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!”
Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased in that a
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Soon after our last child left home for college, my husband was resting next to me on the couch with his head in my lap. I carefully removed his glasses. "You know, honey," I said sweetly, "without your glasses, you look like the same handsome young man I married."
Her husband
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Praying for the sick – well, we’ve got that one down. I recently saw a cartoon where an elderly woman is standing at the church door talking to the pastor. Her remark, as she hands a thick manila folder to him, “My doctor copied my chart,
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
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CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
You too, my mother, read my rhymes,
For love of forgotten times,
And you may chance, to hear once more,
The little feet along the floor
SOURCE: Robert Louis Stevenson. Citation: The
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Contributed by Mike Hamilton on May 1, 2003
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Little Suzie finished her prayer and said:
Dear God,
Before I finish, I want you to take care of mommy, take care of daddy, take care of my sister and my brother and please, God, take
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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A man consulted a doctor, “I’ve been misbehaving, Doc, and my conscience is troubling me,” he complained.
“And you want something that will strengthen your willpower?” asked the doctor.
“Well, no,” said the fellow. “I was thinking of
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Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Jan 21, 2009
Neil Armstrong as he was heading toward the moon:
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 1, 2022
I was admiring my aunt’s necklace when she surprised me by announcing,“I’m leaving it to you in my will.”I was overjoyed, perhaps too much.“Oh!”I shouted.“I’m looking forward to
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Independent/Bible
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NO JACKET REQUIRED
I shook my head in disbelief. This couldn’t be the right place. After all, I couldn’t possibly be welcome here. I had been given an invitation several times, by several different people, and had finally decided to see what this place was all about. But, this just couldn’t be
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
Here is a story from Amy in Miami Beach about anxiety and worry Dancing Potato Chips
Not long ago I had “one of those days. I had company arriving in a couple of days and the toilet was clogged. I went to the bank, and the “its my first day” teller processing my deposit had to start over three
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 18, 2025
[137]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IF THERE IS DESPAIR SUCH AS IN VIRUS TIMES
This poem was written in the middle of the COVID virus, that terrible scourge from China. Depending on where you lived in the world, you suffered repression from governments, some not too bad, but others were draconian.
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 31, 2003
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Corrie Ten Boom and her family secretly housed Jews in their home during WW II. Their "illegal" activity was discovered, and Corrie and her sister Bessie were sent to the German death camp, Ravensbruck. There Corrie would watch many, including her sister, die.
After the war she returned to Germany
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2008
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JUST AN OLD SHOE BOX
It was just an old shoe box with a pink faded ribbon wrapped around.
The old house was sad and sat strangely quiet…
Ever since momma was called to go home.
It’s like she had just turned loose of living…
Dutifully to follow dad on.
My Brother and I had moved things for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2002
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NO SECRETS HERE
A young couple decided to wed. As the big day approached, they grew apprehensive. Each had a problem they had never before shared with anyone, not even each other.
The Groom-to-be, overcoming his fear, decided to ask his father for advice. "Father," he said, "I am deeply concerned
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 26, 2003
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I had been in full time ministry for eight years when I felt God calling me to come to Winnipeg and do a church plant. For a long time my family, my brother, and his wife were the only congregation I had. We met in my basement. I worked a number of secular jobs to pay the bills, while putting my
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 20, 2006
Max Lucado, in his book, Applause From Heaven, tells the story of the time when his 3 year old daughter, Jenna, awoke him in the middle of the night. He said that he tried to stay asleep but her insistent, "Daddy" wouldn’t allow him to stay in slumber. He writes, "I opened one eye. Andrea was at
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Christian Church
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