This is a story I heard when I was younger which has stuck with me. The message is something of which I continually remind myself, especially when things start to get hectic.
The North Forty
One day a farmer decided to plow the north forty. As he went out to the barn to get on his tractor, [...]
The End of Your Rope
I was on a campout with a bunch of scouts. Around the campfire one of the leaders, an old cowboy, got out a length of rope and called over one of the scouts. He told him to take hold of the end of the rope and then pull it [...]
Once I switched on an old stereo for a friend who was working on the speakers. My ears got blasted with such a piercing screech that they tingled with pain before I could shut it off again. After a few adjustments, my friend asked me to turn it on again. I was a [...]
When I was in the sixth grade several of the classes were outside doing relay races, class against class. I was known as a pretty fast runner so was chosen to run on the third leg of a four-leg race. We were to run from one end of a grassy field, touch the [...]