When I was working as a disc jockey in Columbus, Ohio, I used to stop at a local hospital on my way home. I would walk into different people's rooms and read Scripture to them or talk to them. It was a way of forgetting about my problemsand being thankful to God. It made a difference in the lives of those I visited. One time, it literally saved my life.One night, I came home at about two o'clock in the morning. As I began to open my door, a man came out from behind the side of my house and said.
As Mahatma Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along thetrack to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use."
When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry, so he offered her a Twinkie. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Once again she smiled at him.
Thomas Edison's laboratory was virtually destroyed by fire in December, 1914. Although the damage exceeded two milion dollars, the buildings were only insured for $238,000 because they were made of concrete and thought to be fireproof.
Several years ago, while attending a communications course, I experienced a most unusual teaching process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ashamed of, guilty about, regretted, or incomplete about. The next week he invited participants to read their lists aloud. This seemed like a very private process, but there's always some brave soul in the crowd who will volunteer.
A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away.As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing.He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother." "But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars."The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me, I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers.As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home.
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said,'Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.'The Lord led the holy man to two doors.
One night a man came home to his 14 –year-old son and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office and one of the junior executives came in and he told me that he admired me and gave me a blue ribbon for being creative genius. The blue ribbon that says 'Who I am makes a difference'.
My father had given me so much, in so many ways, and at this moment I also wanted to give something that I had to him. How about the 100-meter gold medal? It was the highest achievement that I got in my athletic. It is also the one thing I could give him to represent all the good things we did together, all the positive things that had happened to me because of him.I had never before taken any of my medals out of the bank vault where I usually kept them.
Jenny was so happy about the house they had found. For once in her life, she would be staying on the right side of town. She unpacked her things with such great ease. As she watched her new curtains blow in the breeze, she thought about how wonderful it was to have her own room. School would be starting and she would have friends over soon. There will be sleepovers and parties. She was so happy. It's just the way she wanted her life to be.On the first day of school, everything went great.