Many home gardeners, including myself, love the graceful, many-colored petunias that bloom all summer. I found that when a petunia springs up by itself it reverts to original form and color, which may not be as attractive as hybrids, though its fragrance is much sweeter. The fancy petunias we have today were hybridized from two original species...

"I will meditate on the glorious splendor of your majesty, And on Your wondrous works." Psalm 145:5 Nature in all its beauty is so spectacular this spring. We live in southern British Columbia and I don’t remember when the new growth on the trees and grass has been so lush. The flowers are blooming in magnificent splendor. The birds are singing...

John Terry smiled when he heard his foreman's request. "Will you lead the toolbox safety meeting today after lunch?" It was a busy day, but he was willing to take the time. In fact, his eyes twinkled and his apple cheeks shone as he told the foreman, "I'll be glad to do it." The founder and president of the Terry Construction Company of Greenville...

Evelyn Matzko sat back on her exercise bicycle, looked at her mileage meter, then at her watch and sighed. "Two more miles to go," she said softly. "Oh, this is so boring! I wish I could go back to riding my old bike outside as I used to do!" But the streets of her new neighborhood in were hillier than the streets around her former home. Even...

Did you ever read Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? A boy named Jim discovers a map in an old pirate's chest after the man dies. He and two friends set sail on a ship for an island where a treasure chest had been buried by pirates. Jim discovers that the one-legged cook named Long John Silver and other crew members want the treasure for themselves....

Del Lankford really cared about missions. Whenever she had a chance to hear a missionary speak about work on a foreign field, she went to the meeting. Avidly she drank their stories in, nodding her head. "Some pray, some give, and some go," she thought. "Since I'm in my forties now, I'm in the praying and giving crowd and it makes me happy to be...

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me'" (Matthew 25:40). Jeanne Jeffery stared at that verse in her Bible and then read it again. "Why, I've read and heard those words by the Lord Jesus Christ many times!" she thought. "Why...