N.W. Smith's Blog – July 2007 Archive (9)

In our world today it seems that not much remains the same and in most cases change is looked upon as a good thing by folks. For the most part I agree, who would want to live in a boring world where there was never any change?



Change however, is not always pleasant, nor welcome, even though sometimes unavoidable.…

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A poor vagabond, travelling a country road in England, tired and hungry, came to a roadside inn with a sign reading: "George and the Dragon." He knocked.…

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There is a story about a man who had a huge boulder in his front yard. He grew weary of this big, unattractive stone in the centre of his lawn, so he decided to take advantage of it and turn it into an object of art. He went to work on it with hammer and chisel, and chipped away at the huge boulder until it became a beautiful stone elephant. When he finished, it was gorgeous, breath-taking. A neighbour asked, "How did you ever carve such a marvellous likeness of an elephant?" The man answered,… Continue

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Fred Craddock tells the story of a missionary family in China who was forced to leave the country sometime after the communists took over.



One day a band of soldiers knocked on the door and told this missionary, his wife, and children that they had two hours to pack up before these troops would escort them to…

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I really enjoy flowers and plants. I often use to take a short break from writing to pull the weeds from a flower bed or trim a few branches to keep a bush in shape.

I was especially proud of some beautiful ferns I had hanging outside around the patio.…

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A biologist once was doing a study of ants. One day he watched a worker ant carrying a piece of straw. Compared to the ant's size and weight, that straw must have been a heavy and unwieldy load. But the ant kept working -- kept carrying his load.

After a…

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My wife, Larisa and I have a special fondness for birds. We enjoy seeing them fly, darting from tree to tree, soaring and wheeling about, riding the wind in joyous freedom.

And it's fun to watch them splash in a puddle or pool of water, bathing themselves and carefully preening their feathers.…

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A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the Good Samaritan, in which a man was beaten, robbed and left for dead. She described the situation in vivid detail so her students would catch the drama.



Then she asked the class, "If you saw a person lying on the roadside all wounded and bleeding, what would…

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