Category: Stories

The Golden Chain of Kindness

Writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” But I was not thinking about the golden chain of kindness one day when a dilapidated automobile, possibly held together with glue and wire, parked in front of my house. During those years, we lived in a small town just across the street from the church I served, and travelers in need constantly found their way to our home. I was growing weary of helping the numerous people who stopped by almost daily. I was frequently awakened in the middle of...

Jesus Saved Me

Before our beginning a long time ago. There began a story of love and woe. It’s a story of giving and of love, It’s about a man that came from above. This man was made of the finest things. His hair was made of golden strings His feet were made of fine brass. His conscience was as clear as a pane of glass. His heart was as good as the world is round If his love were a liquid we all would drown He has a face so perfect it made the angels cry. To save our souls from damnation...

My Quilt

As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives like the squares of a quilt in many piles. An Angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But as my angel took each piece of cloth off the pile, I noticed how ragged and empty each of my squares was. They were filled with giant holes. Each square was labeled with a part of my life that had been difficult, the challenges...

Perfect Peace

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and...

The Parable of the Two Servants

There once was a man who had two indentured servants. One day a disagreement arose between them as to who was the greatest in the eyes of their master. So they went to the master of the house and asked him, “My lord, which of us is greater?” The master of the house replied, “I will let you discover that for yourself. I will ask each of you a question and you must answer truthfully.” So the servants stood before him and he started to question them. To the first servant, he asked, “What do you do for me?” “Sir,...