Category Archives: Living Life

Lucky

Posted on October 2, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Johnny Carson, host of TV’s famous Tonight Show, got a big laugh when he read this item from the lost-and-found column of a small town newspaper: ‘Lost dog, brown fur, some missing due to mange, blind in one eye, deaf, … Continue reading →

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God Knows I’m Worth It.

Posted on August 27, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The novelist A.J. Cronin based some of his best selling stories on his earlier experience as a doctor in a small mining community in Wales just after the First World War. There was a nurse there who used to help … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Furniture

Posted on July 21, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The eminent psychologist Martin Seligman said that we need to ask ourselves why our grandparents, when they were thwarted, when the people they loved rejected them, when they didn’t get the job they wanted, and when their children died, didn’t … Continue reading →

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Stepping Up

Posted on July 14, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

There’s an old fable about a donkey that fell into a dry well. The owner couldn’t figure out how to get the donkey out, but since he’d been intending to cover the well he started shovelling dirt into it. The … Continue reading →

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When More Feels Like less

Posted on July 10, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Someone has said that the paradox of our age is that we spend more, but seem to have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses, but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. We have … Continue reading →

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Finding ourselves by not being absorbed with ourselves

Posted on June 30, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Thomas Wolfe once wrote: ‘The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact … Continue reading →

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What I don’t know is where I am going!

Posted on June 6, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Albert Einstein was well known for being absent minded. On one occasion he was travelling on a train and the conductor came to check his ticket. Einstein, however, had become so engrossed in his work that he couldn’t remember where … Continue reading →

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Love isn’t love till you give it away

Posted on May 27, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Mary Martin, star of the Broadway version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, was about to go on stage one night, as she had a thousand times before, when a note was handed to her. The letter was … Continue reading →

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Inexpressible Longings

Posted on May 23, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Some of the most poignant words in the Bible come from the Book of Ecclesiastes which says, ‘God has set eternity in our hearts.’ CS Lewis reflected that we often wonder why it is that we have such deep, inexpressible … Continue reading →

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The Keeper of the Spring

Posted on May 19, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Peter Marshall, of ‘A Man Called Peter’ fame, used to tellan an old story about the ‘Keeper of the Spring’ – a reclusive old man who lived high above an Austrian village and for years cleared away the debris from … Continue reading →

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