Jesus‘s Telly A child on Christmas time asked for some paper and crayons in order to draw a crib. Eventually the artistic masterpiece was displayed for parental approval. The mana...

Hasty Interruption   The fine-furniture store where I work has been in business since the 1920s.Recently I received a call from a woman who wanted to replace some chairs from ...

John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn‘t, the girl with the rose. Thirteen months ago, in a Florida library he took a book off the shelf and fou...

  a lovely dream One night just before Valentine‘s Day a woman had a lovely dream about a beautiful necklace. When she woke up, she told her husband, 'I just dreamt that you ...

  She was dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a sma...

1. Two sisters were looking at a book of religious pictures and came across a painting of the Virgin and the baby Jesus. 'See there,' said the older sister, 'that‘s Jesus, and th...

As a teenager，I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious1 out－side，but I wanted to be liked inside. Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend...

1.a bad boy It‘s His FaultBilly and Bobby were small boys．They were brothers，and they often had fights with each other． Last Saturday their mother said to them，“I‘m going t...

 1.The Target My cooking has always been the target of family jokes. One evening, as I prepared dinner a bit too quickly, the kitchen filled with smoke and the smoke detecto...

  Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only...