On a stormy Philadelphia night, an elderly couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The desk clerk apologized, explaining that they were completely booked. “But I can't send nice folks like you out in the rain at 1:00 AM,” he said. “You can sleep in my room.

I was flying over central California at 20,000 feet. The pilot announced “If you look to your right, you’ll have a great view of Yosemite National Park. Sure enough, right below us a miniature version of the Yosemite Valley stretched before us, including Yosemite Falls. It was like someone scooped up Yosemite and put it inside a snow globe.

The world record for the most expensive dress ever designed belongs to a garment entitled “The Nightingale of Kuala Lumpur,” valued by Sotheby’s at $30 million.

A businessman vacationing in Mexico observed a fisherman bringing in his catch for the day. As the fisherman walked past him, the businessman said, “Looks like a good catch.”

I sat in our backyard, my face buried in my hands. I was saying goodbye to the home where our children had grown up and we had lived for seventeen years. In an effort to be good stewards, we had borrowed against our equity, but our investments went south. Now the bank was foreclosing on our loan.

In March 1912, three members of Robert Scott’s Antarctic expedition sat huddled in an ice hut, awaiting death. On perhaps the final day of his life, Dr. Edward Wilson wrote these words to his wife, “Don’t be unhappy… All is well… We will all meet after death, and death has no terrors.

Don and Carol Richardson served as missionaries in New Guinea among the Sawi people.  The couple labored to shared Christ’s love with this tribe, but the Sawis resisted the mercy of God. Their culture didn’t value this quality.