— Author unknown While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the …
Read More »Long Live The Queen
When you really think about how long The Queen of England has been around, it gives new meaning to the phrase, “Long Live the Queen.” After looking at all of these photos, you can’t help but be shocked at how long Queen Elizabeth II has been hosting America’s Presidents and …
Read More »Wintley Phipps – Amazing Grace
EDITOR’S NOTE: I personally love this story, because I am a bass singer in my church choir and I am sooo jealous of this man’s talent. At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded. He is the President of the …
Read More »Nothing Beats Family
— By Ridgely Goldsborough I stepped into my hotel room to a pleasant surprise. Lots of room surrounded an inviting king-size bed, flanked by overstuffed armchairs that rested against sliding glass doors that opened onto a private patio. A small dining table sat next to a kitchenette with a separate …
Read More »Daddy From Heaven
Her hair up in a pony tail, her favorite dress tied with a bow. Today was Daddy’s Day at school, and she couldn’t wait to go. But her mommy tried to tell her, that she probably should stay home. Why the kids might not understand, if she went to school …
Read More »Bombshell
BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS. It all started with a skin flick. In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie …
Read More »Senile Serenity
Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, ‘How old was your husband?’ ’98,’ she replied… Two years older than me’ ‘So you’re 96,’ the undertaker commented… She responded, ‘Hardly worth going home, is it?’ ~~~~~~~ Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old …
Read More »More on Mothers
A MOTHERS MOTTO: You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child.” — Unknown “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” — Abigail Van Buren (‘Dear Abby’)“Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s …
Read More »A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000)
Creator of the “Peanuts” Gang The late Earle Nightingale, writer and publisher of inspirational and motivational newsletters, once told a story about a boy named Sparky. For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. Sparky …
Read More »You’re as young as you feel
If you want to see what years of practice together will do for your dancing style, not to mention your physical shape, watch this couple tear up the dance floor to Jerry lee Lewis. Remember, He is 94 and she is a young 91. You may have to scroll down …
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