God in all things

A woman was serving a life sentence in prison. Angry and resentful about her situation, she had decided that she would rather die than to live another year in prison.
Over the years she had become good friends with one of the prison caretakers. His job, among others, was to bury those prisoners who died, in [...]

A tailor was at work. He took a piece of cloth and with a pair of shining, costly, scissors; he cut the cloth into various bits.
Then he put the pair of scissors at his feet. Then he took a small needle and thread and started to sew the bits of cloth, into a fine shirt. [...]

 With a thundering and ominous boom, lightning struck fiercely into the redwood tree nearly splitting it in half. As the rain continued to pour, Mother Eagle knew she had but one chance to save her offspring before the tree would no longer stand. She knew they all had at least another 30 years of life [...]

The train has started moving. It is packed with people of all ages, mostly with the working men and women and young college guys and gals. Near the window seated, was an old man with his 30 year old son. As the train moves by, the son is overwhelmed with joy as he was thrilled [...]

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none [...]

The caterpillar wasn’t happy. The leaves on his tree were half-wilted, brownish, and tasted like they looked. The weather was cold and windy, and he didn’t like it at all. And for whatever feathery reason, the neighborhood birds seemed to frequent his particular tree much more than all the other trees combined, so even on [...]

The abbot of a once famous Buddhist monastery that had fallen into decline became deeply troubled. Monks were lax in their practice; novices were leaving and lay supporters deserting to other centers. The abbot traveled far to a sage and recounted his tale of woe, of how much he desired to transform his monastery to [...]

” One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The [...]

Some years ago I attended a self-improvement seminar and the speaker was Jim Rohn. He said, “Everything matters in life, some things a little and some things a lot, we just don’t know which is which.” And I believed him.
Now if I may, I would like to relate a personal experience which occurred when [...]

Jacob was a stoutly boy, with round features through and through, including his eyes which glowed almost neon blue from round granite spheres. He accepted his roundness, for after all, good things come in large packages, or so his mother always told him, with a funny grin on her lips. He never understood the grin, [...]