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The year was 1932. A young man was auditioning before a Hollywood talent scout for a screen test. After the audition, the talent scout wrote this evaluation: "Can't act. Can't sing. Can dance a little." The young man doing the audition was Fred Astaire who, in retrospect, is considered to be one of the…

A talent is only useful when used to glorify God. Unless you subscribe to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, you probably missed the story that was in the May 17, 1987 edition. A rock hound named Rob Cutshaw owns a little roadside shop outside Andrews, North Carolina. Like many in the trade, he hunts…

God's Precious Gift "Grandlady, you're the bestest cook in the whole world, you're even better than Mommy." I assure you, this was not the brightest comment I'd ever made. Politely, my Grandmother thanked me for the compliment, as she gently scolded me for the comparison. It got kinda quiet around the…

Cartoonist Charles Schulz offered this comparison: “Life is a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.”

Chapter two “The Lord Passed by”: Boat Potatoes Sometime after Florence, my paternal grandmother died, my grandfather called my mother with an unusual offer. --Kathy, he said, in his heavy Swedish accent, I was going through some of Florence’s things in the attic when I came across a box of old dishes.…

Now you may long for certain qualities you don’t have. Perhaps you’d love to have a great singing voice, and extroverted personality, or a more beautiful face. Perhaps you’d like to be a dynamic evangelist who could preach to millions. But the Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that…