Morningside Devotionals

Jack Canfield, noted author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul, and a book that is going over me now, "The Success Principles," is a man that I believe, has what the Nez Perce indians described as a "Big Soul."  Near as I can find from studying the Nez Perce culture, they had a word for human, and it meant a person who acted as they ought, lived as they ought, and respected others as they ought.  The Nez Perce I've heard, had not word, as we do, for someone who wasn't "human," it wasn't conceivable to them that someone would be so, instead they had only two descriptions for a person, they were, "human," or, they weren't described at all.  Think about that- what sort of difference might it make in our lives today if we simply didn't even acknowledge when someone was being a total jerk?  How much effort, time, energy and soulful hurt is engendered inside the Body of Christ, by  people who are expressing that someon...

Wonder why sometimes the people who should be the most giving, aren't?  Ever wonder why the people who have the most to give, don't?  Ever wonder why the people who aren't blessed with enormous resources, seem to be the ones who make the most use of those resources? Ever wonder why those who have huge reserves aren't willing to share them when doing so would have no real consequence to them? We live in an age where for the price of a tank of gas a person can obtain valuable knowledge worth thousands of dollars, and yet, most choose not to? Ever wonder why someone would choose to stay without knowledge? The most perilous thing that we face as a people isn't a threat to our economy, but those who seek to control the population through fear, would want you to believe that, ever wonder why?  The most perilous thing that we face as a people isn't our educational decline in standards, although, those who want to rule you by fear, want you ...