Flattery

A Crow, having stolen a bit of meat, sat in a tree and held it in her beak. A hungry Fox, seeing this, envied the crow and wished to have the meat for himself. So he came up with a cunning plan. “How gracious you are,” he exclaimed, “how beautifully your feathers...

The Advent Conspiracy

As Told by Mother Teresa One night a man came to our house and told me, "There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days." I took some food with me and went. When I finally came to that family, I saw the faces of those little children...

Humility

  Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at...

Champion of the Underdog

Who doesn’t like a story about an underdog who comes out on top? How about these: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Little Engine that Could, Rocky, The Karate Kid, Forrest Gump, Rudy, Brave Heart. Watch this short video about an underdog named Jason McElwain, an...

WORTHY

Have any of you watched the movie, Saving Private Ryan? It is Steven Spielberg’s haunting window on the days surrounding the Allied inva­sion at Omaha Beach. When the film was first released, war veterans broke down in theaters, many unable to process the...