While Lent is about giving something up (i.e. fasting), it is also about putting something positive in its place. The best way to remove vice is to cultivate virtue. So, in addition to fasting, Lent has also been a traditional time of helping the poor and doing acts of charity […]

Once upon a time there lived a woman who had two daughters. The elder daughter was very much like her mother in both face and manner. They were both so disagreeable and so proud that they were shunned and avoided by all who knew them.   The younger daughter, however, […]

Once the great King Solomon was journeying in the desert. Across the sand the King’s caravan made its way, the camels’ embroidered saddle cloths as bright as flowers, and their jeweled bridles flashing as brightly as the sun itself. But the heat smote down on the king’s head, and Solomon […]

This week’s Inspiration comes from a story authored by Ivan King titled Man in the Forest. A humble farmer’s son had an inquisitive mind and always asked his father all sorts of questions. One day he approached his dad and asked him what it was that he needed to be successful in life.  […]

One afternoon, a small worm was wriggling its way through the forest when it came upon a frog. Looking up in awe at the frog, the worm began to compliment him on how magnificent he was.   “You don’t have to crawl around on the ground as I do because […]