by Mark Edge | Aug 31, 2021 | Emotional Health
There is an old fable that illustrates the destructiveness of gossip. The author is unknown. Once a woman gossiped about her neighbor. Within days she heard that the information she passed along had been false. Feeling remorse, the gossiper decided to visit the...
by Mark Edge | Aug 30, 2021 | Emotional Health
As an older man, Prime Minister Winston Churchill attended an official ceremony. Two members of the audience sat a couple of rows behind him. They began speaking to each other in low voices. “That’s Winston Churchill,” said the first. “They say...
by Mark Edge | Aug 25, 2021 | Emotional Health
Thomas Jefferson was the mentor of James Monroe, and as Monroe matured, they became close friends. Monroe was very patriotic and served overseas in various diplomatic capacities. Still, in doing so, he exhausted his resources and accumulated several debts, including...
by Mark Edge | Aug 24, 2021 | Spiritual Health
My high school principal passed along this story to me several years ago, and it continues to teach today. An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible...
by Mark Edge | Aug 23, 2021 | Employee Productivity
Many years ago, a friend told me about a lady who owned a pet Macaw. The bird had a rasping cough. Naturally, the master was concerned about it, so she took her prized companion to a vet. The pet doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with the bird. Finally, he...
