Coming from a big city, David wasn’t prepared for the approach rural businessmen took toward their customers.

A mother recounts how her kids won four free goldfish at a school carnival. So she went out and bought a used 10-gallon aquarium for a mere five dollars. Of course, it was dirty, but the savings made the two hours of clean-up a breeze. Those four new fish looked great in their new home… at least for the first day.

A mother recounts how her kids won four free goldfish at a school carnival. So she went out and bought a used 10-gallon aquarium for a mere five dollars. Of course, it was dirty, but the savings made the two hours of clean-up a breeze. Those four new fish looked great in their new home… at least for the first day.

A man was being pursued by a roaring, hungry lion. Feeling the beast’s hot breath on his neck and knowing his time was short, he prayed frantically as he ran, “O Lord, please make this lion a Christian.”

On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner that said,
I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, maid, or housekeeper to any leading attorney who will defend him and bring about his vindication.

Charles Dickens drives home a profound truth in a scene from his famous novel, A Christmas Carol.

There was a team of engineers who did an experiment in a wind tunnel to determine why geese fly in a “V” formation. In the experiment, they discovered that each goose, flapping its wings, creates an uplift for the goose that follows.

There was a woman who always went to a certain post office in her town because the postal employees there were just so friendly. One year just before Christmas, she walked in to buy a book of stamps, and the lines were particularly long.

Michael Green tells the story of a young boy trying out for a part in the school play…

Chuck Swindoll tells the story of a fighter pilot shot down by enemy fire during World War II…

At treetop level, he lost part of his stabilizer, a section of his rudder, the tip of his wing, and the landing gear. Finally, he came down in the top of the trees in his cockpit. He breathed a sigh of relief as he sat there in the cockpit, as it rocked precariously back and forth. Enclosed in the cockpit all by himself he was saved, yet so through fire. He was there intact, but he had very little to show for it.