On my four-year-old daughter's first trip to Disneyland, she couldn't wait to get on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. As the car zoomed through the crazy rooms, into the path of a speeding train, and through walls that fell away at the last second, she clutched the little steering wheel in front of her.
When the ride was over, she said to me a little shakily, "Next time, you drive. I didn't know where I was going."
"Be careful when you blindly follow the Masses ... sometimes the 'M' is silent."
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A young fellow by the name of Sammy liked to hang out at Mom and Pop's Grocery Store. Pop didn't know what Sammy's problem was, but the other boys would tease him all the time, calling him Slow Sammy, and punching him on the shoulder as they passed.
To mock him for being slow, they would offer him a dime and a nickel, telling him he could have just one. They said he always took the nickel because it was bigger.
One day after Sammy took the nickel, Pop pulled him to one side and said, "Son, don't you know they're making fun of you? They think you don't know that the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you really grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"
"No," Sammy said, "but if I took the dime they'd quit doing it!"
The clerk in a shoe store was trying hard to persuade his customer that a pair of uncomfortable shoes fit her.
"I'm telling you, these shoes are too pointed and too narrow," argued the customer.
"But, madam," replied the salesman, "everyone is wearing narrow, pointed shoes this season."
"That may be," countered the customer, "but I'm still wearing last season's feet."
"A church cannot survive long-term where members are focused on their own preferences."
- Thom Rainer
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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