Cultivating the Heart
Short but touching writings will make the field of your heart rich.
Nov 12, 2025
A Great Way to Remove Weeds
A teacher brought his students to a field overgrown with weeds to teach them one final lesson before ending the semester. Pointing to the field, the teacher asked,…
Nov 10, 2025
It’s Never Too Late
One day, an elderly man, who wanted to learn Russian, went to a Russian language school to enroll for classes. A staff member kindly asked him, “Have you…
Nov 10, 2025
Observation
When Alexander the Great was twelve years old, his father, the king of Macedonia, purchased a prized horse named Bucephalus at a great price. He brought his son…
Nov 10, 2025
The Kneeling Trees
In the tree line zone of the Rocky Mountains, 3,000 meters above sea level, trees cannot grow straight because of the fierce winds. Instead, they bend and take…
Nov 10, 2025
The One Word I Needed to Hear
A customer once stormed into a snack company, angrily complaining. “There was a foreign substance inside the snack bag. I ate several pieces without realizing—what are you going…
Nov 10, 2025
Question Marks and Exclamation Points
When a friend arrives late for an appointment, instead of saying, “What if you’re late again today?” try saying, “It must have been tough getting here!” When a…
Nov 10, 2025
Positive or Negative Suggestions
An experiment was conducted to observe the effect of giving repeated negative suggestions to a healthy person. First, someone said to the person, “You don’t look well. Are…
Nov 10, 2025
The Long Roots of the Moso Bamboo
The Moso bamboo, which mainly grows in China and other parts of Asia, has a very unusual growth pattern. For the first four years, it hardly grows at…
Nov 10, 2025
The Words ‘I’m Sorry’
When you make a mistake but refuse to apologize, the other person receives three unspoken messages: “The problem is yours.” “I do not respect you.” “I do not…
Nov 8, 2025
Our Concert
Unlike today, old pipe organs could only generate sound when a person forced air into the pipes through a bellows. One day, a famous organist held a recital.…
Nov 7, 2025
No Home, but Never Without a Dream
Khadijah Williams was born homeless. Her mother, only fourteen years old at the time, had dropped out of school when she became pregnant and left home. The two…
Nov 4, 2025
Greeting Opens the Heart
A TV show conducted an experiment: A man entered an elevator with his hands full of luggage and dropped a bag as he was getting off. The purpose…
Oct 29, 2025
Little Things Add Up to Spiritual Blessings
Being faithful to God even in little things is the best way to store up spiritual blessings. In Matthew 25, we can find a good example of how…
Oct 27, 2025
Ubuntu
An anthropologist visited the Bantu tribe in Africa. After gathering some children, he proposed a fun game. He put a basket full of their favorite fruits near a…
Oct 21, 2025
The Blessing of Forgetting
The car keys you have been searching for are in your hand; the cell phone you lost rings in the drawer; the remote control you lost is found…
Oct 18, 2025
Unchanging Seeds
You may think that if you sow a sweet persimmon seed it will produce the same sweet persimmon. In reality, if you sow a sweet persimmon seed, it…
Oct 13, 2025
The Tears of the Cauldron
In the old days, Korean mothers made a furnace-fire and cooked rice with a cauldron. Just as building a house, sewing a dress, or writing a paper requires…
Oct 11, 2025
Creation of the Heavens and the Earth, Brilliant Craftsmanship
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for four years. One of the famous pieces of the ceiling is called The Creation of Adam. To complete it,…
Oct 7, 2025
Overcoming with Positive Thoughts and Attitudes
When people are sick, they usually hunch over, thinking they will find comfort and relief. However, research shows that sitting upright is more effective in overcoming pain than…
Oct 5, 2025
Tenacity
The Tarahumara in Mexico are renowned for their running ability. They call themselves “Rarámuri” (running people). To them, running a full marathon in a day is not a…
Aug 13, 2025
The Theory of Affordance
Why is it easier to study in a library? It’s because the space is filled with books, the atmosphere is quiet, and everyone around is focused on learning—conditions…
Aug 13, 2025
The Miracle on the Hudson River
In January 2009, shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, a plane was rocked by a loud explosion. It had collided with a flock of…
Aug 13, 2025
The Beautiful Journey of Two Brothers
In Michigan, USA, a teenage boy named Hunter Gandee has a younger brother with cerebral palsy. Since his seven-year-old brother cannot walk on his own, Hunter began to…
Aug 1, 2025
A Small Tree’s Misjudgment
Next to a tall tree with thick, lush leaves stood a small tree with sparse foliage. The small tree believed it wasn’t growing well because of the large…
Aug 1, 2025
Even the Smallest Things
“A small ray of sunlight can shine through a tiny hole. It’s not the large boulders, but the small pebbles that people trip over.” British author Arthur Conan…
Aug 1, 2025
Why Humanity Was Able to Reach the Moon for the First Time
The first spacecraft to land on the Moon often veered off its intended course on the way there. Yet it was still able to arrive safely on the…
Aug 1, 2025
Just Start
Todmorden, a town in West Yorkshire, England, was once a center of the textile industry. But its factories had long since shut down, and unemployment was high. By…
Aug 1, 2025
A Son to Be Proud Of
During World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He played a key role in bringing the war to…
Aug 1, 2025
The Man Who Gained Freedom
There was once a man sentenced by the court to 13 years in prison—yet he never spent a single day behind bars. In fact, he was ultimately exempted…
Aug 1, 2025
Home: Where I Can Be My True Self
The French writer André Maurois once said that home is “the only place where we can show ourselves just as we are.” At one time or another, we…