Beauty of Character

While many would not hesitate to say that great beauty is the characteristic that makes most women outstanding, several experts on the subject tend to ...

Tragic Loneliness

We need to see that universal sickness, that innumerable throng of men and women laden down with their secrets, laden down with their fears, their sufferings, ...

Winsome Compassion

I read recently of a teaching hospital that found one of its young resident students had a marvelous effect on children. They responded to him with delight. ...

Saying You're Sorry

Women say "I'm sorry" a lot more often than men. Does that mean they're doing more things they have to apologize for? Nope, says Georgetown ...

Show You Care

A young boy, on an errand for his mother, had just bought a dozen eggs. Walking out of the store, he tripped and dropped the sack. All the eggs broke, ...

Burden-Bearers

We need people who, as a part of their responsibility in life, will carry the burdens and wounds of other people and be outraged by them.

Emotional Needs Come First

Meeting the emotional needs of people comes first. They want to know, "Do you like me?" and "Can I find a place here?"

The Wrong Kind of Pity

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. Pity is the capacity to enter into the pain of ...

Are We Talking Problems or Solutions?

The following story shows how the difference between men's and women's communication styles can lead to misunderstanding in marriage:

Eve had a ...

Not So Simple

A missionary friend of mine once said, "Things were simple before I went to Africa. I knew what the African's problem was, and I knew the answer. ...