How Much Have You Given?

When we come to the end of life, the question will be, "How much have you given?" not "How much have you gotten?"

Giving Involves Sacrifice

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

Riptide in Alaska

In Man in the Mirror, Patrick Morley tells of a group of fishermen who landed in a secluded bay in Alaska and had a great day fishing for salmon. But ...

More Important Than Me

The most important thing my dad ever taught me is that there are more important things than me.

When Down Is Up

In the movie The Poseidon Adventure, the ocean liner S.S. Poseidon is on the open sea when it hits a huge storm. Lights go out, smoke pours into rooms ...

Happiness in Service

One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Displaced Gratification

People often discuss the importance of delayed gratification; what do you mean when you talk about "displaced gratification"?

In delayed gratification, ...

Unshakeable Faith

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.

A Sacrifice at Auschwitz

In A Book of Saints, Anne Gordon tells the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz in August 1941. A prisoner escaped from the ...

Taking the Sting

A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was ...