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Helping ourselves

Helping ourselves

Ronan Keane

In one story Jesus told, a young man left home hoping to make his fortune, but ended up wasting his share of the family’s wealth on wild living. Finally, penniless and hu... »

My moment of glory

My moment of glory

Joyce Suttin

During the spring of my junior year in high school, some girls suggested we practice for the junior-senior basketball game, and I thought it might be fun, so I tagged alo... »

Be a giver of kindness

Be a giver of kindness

Maria Fontaine

On a flight I took some months ago, there was a little girl sitting in the catty-cornered seat from me. She had a beautiful new coloring book that her mother had obviousl... »

The courage to be kind

The courage to be kind

Avi Bauer

One sunny afternoon roughly seventy years ago, a young girl and her friends were watching through the mesh of a barbed wire fence as a group of men played football [socce... »

The gift of listening

The gift of listening

G. L. Ellens

I had just moved to a new country with my husband and family. That meant new schools for the children and a new job for my husband. It was a difficult time of adjustment... »

Pausing to care

Pausing to care

Chalsey Dooley

I don’t know how she did it, but the cashier's eyes peered right into mine. I’d been discovered. I had tried to avoid eye contact as I was finishing the grocery shopping.... »

Boomerang

Boomerang

When I was a little girl, I went to my first circus. There, before my awestruck eyes, were three rings in full action—performing animals in one, and acrobats leaping and... »

Change the world

Change the world

Question: I’d like to do more to improve things around me, but I don’t feel there’s a lot I can do. Changing the world seems like such a huge task—how to know where to st... »

The unsung hero

The unsung hero

Abi May

The story of the boy who gave his lunch to the disciples to share with the multitude is well known.[See John 4:1–3.] Jesus took the two small loaves and five fishes, bles... »

Love at work

Love at work

Message from Jesus

There is a special happiness and contentment that comes from putting others and their needs above your own. When you’re doing something kind for someone, it doesn’t just... »