I am a huge fan of the late comedian Jack Benny. I really enjoy listening to recordings of his radio show from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. One of Mr. Benny’s running jokes depicted him as an extreme tigh...

A teacher was testing the children in her CCD class to see if they understood the concept of getting to Heaven. She asked them, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale, and gave all my m...

In her book entitled Now This, longtime ABC News correspondent Judy Muller writes about how, in struggling to establish her career and raise two teenage daughters alone, she found herself slipping int...

One day, a man was walking through a field, deep in meditation and reflection. He stood in awe before a huge oak tree, reflecting on the tiny acorns lying around the base of the tree — the ones that h...

Several years ago, I watched part of a documentary that followed the family of an elderly woman who lived in Appalachia in the South. The film crew gave glimpses and insights as they followed the fami...

A woman tumbled off her deck one day, breaking her arm and tearing her rotator cuff. Toward the end of her long and painful rehabilitation, her doctor recommended that she take up some activity to wor...

“Zits” is the daily newspaper comic strip by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman that chronicles the foibles and angst of being a teenager and, of course, being the parents of teenagers. In a strip a number o...

Author Timothy Gallwey tells a story about how one cold winter night he was driving from Maine to New Hampshire. It was around midnight, and he was on a deserted country road. Suddenly, his car hit an...

A Benedictine Monk talks about how he looks at the bulletin board every morning before prayer. The items he pays most attention to are the requests for prayers. They come from all over and are about a...

Throughout His ministry, Jesus performed many miracles; people even came to Him to see the miracles. Some people reacted with wonderment and then went about their business, essentially unaffected. Oth...