Today's Key to Confident Living

To think that he had skimped and cheated on the very house that was to become his own.

Is that what you would like to do - get some fresh air in your lungs and clean air under your wings?

Unchecked anger has scarred the lives of many good people.

The child looked up sadly and said, "Mam, I ain't nobody's nothin."

That day the seminary students put shoe leather into what they have been learning. They practiced what they would soon be preaching.

He was the only one to ask me about my sore finger.

Listen to the story behind the phrase, "Go into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of God. That shall be better than light."

Sometimes we get the wrong answers because we don't ask the right questions.

"Dad, you just keep preaching, and I will keep them awake."

Positive minded people develop a "we can do it" mentality.

William James, Harvard psychologist said, "If you wish to possess a qualification or an emotion, act "as if" you already had it!"

Ask, "Is it true? Is it harmless? Is it necessary."

In a moment of time, the old picture hanging on the wall has soared to an unbelievable amount because of the word of a competent authority.

One tourist asked, "Were any great men born in this village?"

While in prison, Dostoevske often thought of the frightful day and the great comfort the received from the caring kindness of the uneducated man.

A man looked for the safest place on earth for his family and moved them there just before a war broke out all around them.

You may feel all alone in your difficult times of life, but God has not forgotten you: this may be the time He is carrying you.

"Everybody wants to live long, though nobody wants to be old."

Watching the vultures fly overhead was all lion and the mountain goat needed to end their quarrel.

The Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game, however what followed that day was anything but routine.

The lady whose purse was returned to her said, "That's funny, before I lost my bag, there was a twenty dollar bill in it Now I fund two fives and ten one-dollar bills?"

Bouquets of flowers and words are important to give while the person receiving them can enjoy them.

The bus driver wa prejudiced agains a specific group of people and it didn't make any difference to him whether the facts supported his position or not.

There are consequences the Manana mentality .

One has to wonder what might have happened if this charismatic and powerful leader had not been so offended by one man's prejudice.

St. Francis of Assisi had an unusual way of preaching.

Mark Twain received a letter from a subscriber who wrote that he had found a spider in his paper.

Are "things" what our children need" Or do they need us and our relationships?

Are you in a perplexing situation and you don't know which way to turn? You are willing to make the right move, if you only knew shat that move should be?

John Curtis said, I believe 90% of stress is brought on by not living in the present moement.

Listen to the following steps for avoiding the destructive reactions to the fuel of angry words!

Sometimes we may not realize how we are speaking to others; to hear how we sound to others, we may only have to listen how they sound to us.

"Mom, where are all of those idiots dad and I saw this morning?"

It is not enough to just seek some kind of salve to put on a guilty conscience; we need to be sure that we are dealing with the problem that is causing the guilt.

Cape Hatteras was miraculously spared the devastation of a terrible hurricane; a spray-painted plywood sign had a interesting message painted on it.

Directions for planting a garden of personal satisfaction and good human relationships.

Would you hire a ball player who set the major league record for the most strike outs and also struck out 5 times in a World Series Game? Maybe!

A desire to own something unique and motivates certain people, but what is really important?

Caring for a handicapped child can be very demanding and yet very rewarding.

It is true: "A society that must install metal detectors at the schoolhouse door has lost the proper safeguards at the family front door."

Thinking they were getting the other ant's treasure, they unvwittingly poisoned themselves.

Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do people ever say to you, "Lighten up a little," or "Don't be such a worry wart?"

"Bill, I will give you every place your set your foot, but you are the one to choose where you set it!"

Could there somehow be a connection between the lady who stopped by the church in the morning and this elderly man?

"I told Jesus if he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas, I would give him a ride around the block in it"

"Lady, are you God's mother?"

The little girl wrapped up a present for Jesus and her mother wondered what it was and did not want her to be disappointed.

It is OK to celebrate Johnny's Birthday, but don't tell anyone why we are celebrating.

Something the father hadn't even noticed became for the son, the most meaningful pat of the entire outing.

The God who cares, cares about our material possessions.

The funny thing a man, who had survived a 150' fall, said to to the EMS people carrying him to the ambulance.