Tag: wisdom

Watch those wants

June 24, 2013 | 15 comments

I eat out frequently because of my extensive traveling, and I’ve had to pray a lot about food choices along the way because the food options handy are often very poor. One lesson I’m learning when sitting down in a

How to double your money

June 13, 2013 | 2 comments

The quickest way to double your money   is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. ~  Will Rogers   For anyone tempted by get-rich-quick-schemes, there’s a treasure-trove of wisdom in these words!  

Don’t build on the sand

May 7, 2013 | 3 comments

Take a good look at this tower.  See anything unusual?   It’s leaning!  Yep, two meters off plumb. When construction on this tower in Delft began in the 1300’s, the builders moved a canal away from the Old Church to

Where do you find happiness first?

August 23, 2012 | 6 comments

Sent in by a reader…it will catch you by surprise… An excerpt from The Road to Happiness by Mac Anderson and BJ Gallagher When I travel on business, I like to talk to the taxi drivers who take me from

A parable of two pebbles

May 29, 2012 | 6 comments

Many years ago, in a small Chinese village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a local rich man.  The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed