EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO THE SAINTS
As people age, they often begin to look back over their lives, remembering important events. Recently, I started to reminisce about my wedding day in June of 1959. It was probably the happiest day of my life. I had found “Mr. Right,” and on the day of my wedding, I was on...
I received a call from my daughter, and as soon as she could quit laughing, she told me what had just occurred. She had picked up her son from school and was on the way to pick up her daughter. As is her habit, she began to talk...
I work for a large insurance company and, surprisingly, one of the complaints I hear most often has nothing to do with our benefit plans, claims processing abilities, or customer service in general. The number-one complaint seems to be our phone system....
Several years ago, I took a boat building class in which we made fiberglass kayaks. The instructor guided the class through all the steps of preparing the mold, cutting fiberglass fabric in the...
When our children were very young, most cars did not have safety belts. Making matters worse, back then there were dangers of car doors coming open, and children were advised continually by their parents to “stay in your seats and stay away from the doors.” Of course, children often push the ...
Recently I looked up a product on the web under the heading of “all purpose” and found 9,370,000 products that fit into that category. There were household cleaning products, vitamins, foods, and seasonings—even all-purpose apparel! I found the last item to be the most interesting. It was...
After a promotion at work, my best friend turned against me. She said things to others that were not true. The comments would have hurt coming from anyone, but she was my best friend—at least I had thought she was! Being promoted had not been my...
My wife and I bought a home with a large backyard, so I decided to put in a garden. This would...
The journalistic strategy informally deemed the “five Ws and an H” is frequently used to ensure thorough investigation of a topic. The simple, one-word questions Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? are designed to cover all the bases and assist a writer in obtaining critical details for a news story or report. In Psalm...
When I was a little girl, my mom would often read aloud bits and pieces of letters she received from her family in New York. Whenever she would send a picture of us, a letter always came back saying how impressed our faraway relatives were that every picture was filled with smiling faces....