Stories Inspiring

Someone once asked me, “if you could be any person in the world, who would it be?” To which I responded without hesitation, “my eleven-year-old son.” My boy’s life is one where the less pleasant elements of reality rarely intrude. His eyes unfocused, his mouth emitting sound effects, he drifts

Some years ago, two teenagers with a long history of crime and delinquency robbed a YMCA on the lowest east side of New York City. On the way out they saw a young man at the telephone switchboard. They were frightened and assumed that the must be calling the police.

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands… 1 Thessalonians 4:11 I don’t know if cell phones give you brain tumors or not, but they sure do make you stupid. I was walking down the street in New

I’m really interested in story about a small candle carried by a man who was climbing the stairs of a lighthouse. In their way up to the top, the candle asked the man, “Where are we going?” “We’re going to the top of this lighthouse and give signals to the

One man says it really happened. At the conclusion of his medical exam, the doctor asked him if he would please call in the next patient. So, he opened the waiting room door and called, “Mrs. Colchester, please.” Then he left the doctor’s office. He had walked some distance along

A young man who was graduating from college told the story about how Oral Lee Brown was his “Real Life Angel.” In 1987, Brown, a real estate agent in Northern California, saw a young girl in her neighborhood begging for money. When she went to the school the girl had

I know a couple who works in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a sales representative and she is a pharmacist. When asked what they do for a living, he is quick to reply, “She makes drugs and I sell `em.” I believe it was Lord Byron who said, “Always laugh

There was a father who was known by his family to be a chronic growler. He complained about everything. He was sitting one day with his family in the presence of a guest in the living room when the subject of food came up. One of the children, a little

Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military generals who ever lived, conquered almost the entire known world with his vast army. One night during a campaign, he couldn’t sleep and left his tent to walk around the campgrounds. As he was walking he came across a soldier asleep on

It has been said, “Be contented with what you have, but never too contented with what you are.”

There is a story that comes out of Asia about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail swishing between two large rocks. In a moment of haste, he grabbed the tail and pulled. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the tail and only two rocks stood between him and the tiger’s teeth and claws! So there he remained, afraid to loosen his grip on the enraged animal’s tail lest he surely be killed.

A monk happened by and the farmer called out in desperation, “Come over here and help me kill this tiger.”

The holy man said, “Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the life of another.” Then he went on to deliver a homily against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding tightly to the tail of an angry tiger.

When the monk finally finished his sermon, the farmer pleaded, “If you won’t kill the tiger, then at least come hold its tail while I kill it.”