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Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, a professional counselor gives the following advice about coping with anxiety and depression, “Fear of the unknown and uncertainty over how long we’ll have to resort to limiting our daily lives, fear of contracting the coronavirus or even worry about how this will affect one's…

In 1944 Waclaw Domagala was injured at the Battle of Monte Cassino. Doctors removed his left leg in an Italian military hospital. He never forgot the “angel” who nursed him back to health. She was a young 21-year-old nurse named Maria Kowalaka. Domagala is now in a senior home in southwest England. The…

On April 17, 2018 a Southwest Airlines plane lost an engine and experienced extreme damage when a part of that engine penetrated the passenger cabin killing one passenger and creating great fear among the rest of the 142 passengers on board. The Dallas Morning News sent a reporter to learn more about…

German police called an unnamed man to tell him they had found his car. He went to a Frankfurt garage where he discovered the car he had reported missing—twenty years ago. As it turns out it was never missing. The man simply forgot where he parked it. Some things are good to forget. The promise that…

Jerry Merryman was a man who changed the world. When he died in February 2019, friends and family remembered him as brilliant and a kind man with a good sense of humor. Merryman and a team of two other men invented the hand-held calculator while working for Texas Instruments. Their work received a Nobel…

Jyll Justamond was finally able to spend Father’s Day with her biological father after searching for him for decades. All she knew was that her father’s name was Al, he was Italian, and the location of where he worked for 40 years. In a last ditch effort, Justamond made a post in a social media group…

The technology world paused to honor Ray Tomlinson after he passed away in March 2016. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson worked for a Boston technology firm when he decided to devise a way for people to send messages to each other through a computer network. He thought the protocols available were too limited and…

When Ben Moser’s was in the fourth grade, his friend Mary Lapkowicz had Down syndrome. He watched over her, trying to include her in the games fourth graders play. He wanted her to feel included, even though she was different than the other children. He even promised to take Mary to their high school…

Cathy Sadler received a surprise parcel from Miss Twyford, her former teacher—a photocopy of a Mother’s Day card that Sadler’s entire class had signed and given to her on Mother’s Day in 1958. After seeing the card, Sadler said she never realized how much she and her classmates had encouraged their teacher.…

One day when he was 13, Michael Irvin, NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver, decided to ditch school. As punishment, his father brought him to work with him the next day. It was a 14-hour workday, 110-degree heat, with only 15-minute lunch break to eat sardines and crackers. By the end of the day, “Irvin’s…

A lot of people in the St. Louis area remember Steven Stevens for his rich resonant voice, but others say they prefer to remember the way he used his voice. Stevens was a radio and television personality in the area for many years, and since he started broadcasting at a young age his voice influenced…

Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

In a 60 minutes interview on CBS, Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography Steve Jobs, shares this early event in Jobs’ life as related by Jobs. “I was, I remember right here on the lawn, telling Lisa McMoylar from across the street that I was adopted. And she said, ‘So does that mean your real parents…

At his memorial service, speakers remembered a Philadelphia cabdriver as a man who had a unique ministry to the people of the city. Milton Stackhouse, better known to his friends as “Stack” died of a heart attack at the wheel of his cab on his 64 birthday. Family and friends remembered Stack as a family…

BIBLE In Decision Points, President George W. Bush writes about a conversation with Billy Graham, I was captivated by Billy. He had a powerful presence, full of kindness and grace, and a keen mind. The next day, he asked me to go for a walk around the property. He asked about my life in Texas. I talked…

Jackie Chan said, “I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.” -http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jackie_chan.html (accessed: 7132010)…

LOST AND FOUND As of July 1, 2003 a new lifesaving technology became available to millions of Americans. Personal locator beacons similar to beacons used by mariners and aviators, allow lost hikers, campers, and others to be tracked in an emergency when they carry the devices. When activated in an emergency,…

LEGACY How will you be remembered when you are gone? James Henry Smith's friends and family will always remember him as a true Pittsburgh Steelers fan. During his life, Smith spent Fall Sunday in front of the television watching his favorite team. Recently Smith died of cancer, but his passing did not…

The Four Gifts of Three Wise Men "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh." (Matthew 2:11) As we celebrate God's…

SPEECH FAST Saturday I did something that many people feel is impossible for me-I didn't talk. Why? With the slip of a surgeon's scalpel, several years ago, I lost the ability to speak--a fairly important skill to a preacher. My world crashed in around me. As weeks became months, I drifted into depression…

LOVE In the book, Godly Love, A Rose Planted in the Desert of Our Hearts, Stephen Post says he always knew human beings longed for God’s love, but it took an encounter with a man named Jim to help him understand the need. Post says he meet Jim in a nursing home in Ohio years ago. Jim was very forgetful,…

Sarah In 1999, I met Sarah while preaching a revival in the church her father pastors. I enjoyed my time with the entire family. I count her father as a close friend in the ministry and learned to love the whole family while I visited. Sarah is in that wonderful age between childhood and the terrifying…

Promises, Promises "But Daddy, you promised!" These four words strike terror in my heart. Usually the conversation they refer to goes something like this. "Hey Daddy, would you like to get some Ice Cream?" Or, "Daddy, can we go to the mall sometime?" Of course, I say, "Sure, that sounds like fun, we'll…

Accustomed to His Grace You can buy it in a grocery store, a drug store, the mall, from a street vendor, at a baseball game and in a school cafeteria. It comes in red, pink, brown, white, white with black specks, green, green with black specks, and orange. It is very cold, but sometimes people put hot…

Prayer I remember the dark cloud well. Not the kind that tornados descended from or that released the frightening thunderstorms, but the dark cloud of war that hung over my grade school years during the Vietnam Conflict. The news coverage in those days were bland by today's standards, but the images…