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Adventures on the Light Rail – The Sales Guys

Would you agree with me that sometimes sales guys can have a questionable reputation? I do not know, there is just something about some of them that I can not quite put my finger on. Maybe the thing is I sense that I can not really trust some of them. I have many friends and family members that are indeed great people and great sales people so this does not implicate every single sales person but there maybe some generalizing wisdom that might be gleaned from this experience. Maybe hearing some recent conversations among sales men on the train, better known as the light rail, just maybe these conversations will give us some valid reasons for those queasy feelings in out stomach when dealing with some sales people. Continue reading

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Morning Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit  their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and … Continue reading

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Story of Isaiah 65:24

This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in South Africa====== One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with … Continue reading

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The Paradoxical Commandments: Kent Keith

The Paradoxical Commandments is both a poem and a book by Kent Keith. He wrote the poem as an undergraduate, and it has spread around the world often in slightly altered form. Two decades after writing the original poem, Rozier … Continue reading

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I’m Glad You’re In My Dash

I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone, From the beginning … to the end. He noted that first came her date of birth And … Continue reading

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Our Mirror

The World Is Your Mirror The good you find in others, is in you too. The faults you find in others, are your faults as well.After all, to recognize something you must know it. The possibilities you see in others, … Continue reading

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Seven days

By: Joseph J. Mazzella I saw another one of those seven day advertisements today. They are the ones that claim that you can change your life in just seven days. There are ones for losing so much weight in seven … Continue reading

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The Harvest

There was once a spider who lived in a cornfield. He was a big spider and he had spun a beautiful web between the corn stalks. He got fat eating all the bugs that would get caught in his web.  … Continue reading

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She went gently into the light

By Bob Perks "She went gently into the light," he said. The young child slumped over into his arms and wept. How does one explain death to a child?  I have heard many explanations. Some I thought made sense and … Continue reading

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Everything Happens For A Reason

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there …  to serve some sort of purpose,  teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want … Continue reading

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