Why Work?

A man died and woke up in the next world. He found himself in a beautiful place. He rested in that lovely spot, and then he grew bored. He called out, “Is anybody here?”  A servant dressed in white manifested himself and asked in a serious tone, “What do you wish?”...

How Do You Like Working with…

I have a friend who is a retired athletic coach. She coached girls’ basketball for 40 years in Texas. She told me recently about the best piece of advice she ever received. She was taking a job in a small town in South Texas, and before she began, one of the boys’...

When Encouragement Can Lift Weight

I was thirteen years old, and it was May during my seventh-grade year. Our coach had gathered all of us seventh-grade boys in the high school field house, where the school’s only weight-lifting machine was located. It was hot as blazes. There was no air...

Aaron Sings; Nobody Cares

My son has a good singing voice and is musically talented. Still, I’ve never pushed him to get into the singing business. It is a tough field that can be very hard and discouraging. A case in point is a kid named Aaron. He was twenty and had been singing in...