The Power of Determination This month’s article is from “Today’s Helping of Chicken soup for the Soul” and is dedicated to our son Lowell, the editor, and...
Author - Duane Harder
Duane is a pastor, educator and counsellor.
HELP! When a crisis hits, like it has in Turkey and Syria, people around the world are motivated to help. Even Russia, a country that has caused massive...
What Is Love? The definition of love is probably as varied as the number of people you ask. However, there was one common thread among the hundreds of couples...
Courage Winston Churchill said, “Courage is the most important virtue because the effective practice of all other virtues depends upon courage.” Merriam...
Ambivalence “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take...
The Champion Complainer According to the authors of the book Significa, the world’s champion complainer was a man named Ralph Charrell. Charrel received...
Sage Advice From Lucy In a classic “Peanuts” comic strip, Charlie Brown goes to Lucy for psychiatric help. He says, “What can you do when you...
Finding Hope When Life Seems Hopeless From Parade magazine comes the story of a millionaire, Eugene Lang, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade...
Mind Your Mind My face in the mirror Isn’t wrinkled or drawn. My house isn’t dirty The cobwebs are gone. My garden looks lovely And so does my lawn.I think I...
The Clock and the Compass Think about a compass and a clock two very important tools, but two very different instruments. A compass provides a sense of...