Ah, love. Love and marriage, you know the drill, though why does it often seem like love and marriage, no matter what the genders, so seldom seem to act very loving. Like this story about STRANGERS ON A TRAIN: More children’s wisdom HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like…

Novelist Peter deVries once said, in his book, Let me Count the Ways: “If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.” What a book a devil’s chaplain…

Do you remember one of the first popular black comedians of TV, Flip Wilson? Most of us are like the old Flip Wilson routine, in which someone asked Flip about his religion and he answered, “I am a Jehovah’s Bystander.”     “A Jehovah’s Bystander?” remarked his friend. “I never heard of a Jehovah’s Bystander.”    Flip looked coy and said, “Well, they…

A man sought medical aid because he had popped eyes and a ringing in the ears. A doctor looked him over and suggested removal of his tonsils. The operation resulted in no improvement, so the patient consulted another doctor who suggested removal of his teeth. The teeth were extracted, but still the man’s eyes popped and the ringing in his ears continued.…

Predictions: David Sarnoff wanted some of his associates to invest in the radio in the 1920s; the response supposedly: “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” — “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”– Marshall Ferdinand Foch, professor of strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre Horse drawn carriages…

This guy goes into a restaurant for a Xmas breakfast while in the old hometown for the holidays. After looking over the menu he says, I’ll just have the Eggs Benedict. His order comes a while later and its served on a big, shiny, hubcap. He asks the waiter, what’s with the hubcap? The waiter sings: Oh there’s no plate like chrome…

In a copy of a family -type magazine (TODAY’S CHRISTIAN WOMAN)-came this story and to fully understand it, you have to know that Barney is a purple dinosaur on children’s young programming who is always singing about how much he loves us. SO that told….” A woman took her four-year-old granddaughter to the doctor’s office with a fever. The doctor looked in…

This comes from one of the many sources from a course on Judaism I took back in the 1980s from a reform Rabbi; I have lost the original source, but find wonderful universal wisdom that I want to share. Remember that we glean wisdom from the world’s religions, interpreting their language. Judaism itself is based on interpretation, even more so than Christianity.…

‘Twas the Night of Thanksgiving, But I just couldn’t sleep.I tried counting backwards,I tried counting sheep.The leftovers beckonedThe dark meat and white,But I fought the temptationWith all of my might.Tossing and turningWith anticipation,The thought of a snackBecame infatuation.So I raced to the kitchen,Flung open the door,And gazed in the fridgeFull of goodies galore.I gobbled up turkeyAnd buttered potatoes,Pickles and carrots,Beans and tomatoes.I…

This joke is not part of sermon and was not told from the pulpit! One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.’The Marine looked…