Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 21, 2017)
Alligators and Children
Years ago in South Florida, a little boy decided to go to the swimming hole behind his house. He ran out the back door and flew into the water. As he swam...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 15, 2017)
Punching Holes in the Darkness
A young boy with his face to the window watched with fascination as an old lamplighter came down the street.
One by one he was lighting the old-fashioned gas street lamps....
Glad Tidings of Good Things (May 23, 2019)
Quite an Accident
The atheist says that there is no God. All wonders around us are accidental. No mighty hand made the thousand-billion stars. They made themselves. The earth spins itself to keep the oceans...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 28, 2018)
Too Many to Count
One day Abraham Lincoln summoned to the White House a surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland from the state of Ohio. The major assumed that he was to be commended...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (September 19, 2017)
Five Things Elders Need to Hear Regularly
When things are going well, we just assume the elders know we appreciate it. Here are five things that elders need to hear from each member on a...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 7, 2018)
A Brick in the Wall
You may have heard the expression: “He was a brick!” Few know the origin and significance of that expression. The term implies all that is brave and loyal.
Plutarch, in writing...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (May 31, 2018)
The Kindness Line
A lady was waiting in line at the grocery store checkout. The lines were unexpectedly long that day. Ahead, she could see something being passed along from the front of the line....
Glad Tidings of Good Things (September 7, 2018)
Avoid Coverups
Centuries before the time of Christ, near the Greek city of Sparta, a young boy saw his teacher approaching on the path ahead. Fear gripped him.
At the age of seven, the boy had...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 29, 2017)
Racism Is Learned
Last night, a friend of mine told me of an incident that occurred many years earlier with his young daughter.
They lived in Minnesota at the time and, consequently, were fans of the...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (April 18, 2019)
Who Is to Blame?
We read it in the papers and hear it on the air
Of killing and stealing and crime everywhere.
We sigh and we say as we notice the trend;
“This young generation . ....