“Ready to be shaped” from Between Good and Evil

By D.M. Larson

All of us are born innocent babies, ready to be shaped.  But others

are reborn as a reaction to what we experience in life.  Some of us
grow stronger while other shrink in fear.  And in this lowest
moment, this is when we forge a new path in our future.

There are important moments in our lives where we must make a

choice.  A choice to be good or a choice to be evil.  If others follow,
where will you lead them?  To a better life or to a life that's only
better for you?  That's how heroes are made.  They are the ones
who devote themselves to others, wanting to change what is
wrong and make things right.

Being a hero isn't easy. We might want to help others but

sometimes we are too weak and feel helpless at times.  But the
spirit must remain strong if we are to achieve a greater good.

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In life, even small acts of kindness can create a hero.  There

doesn't need to be a meteor falling toward your planet for a hero
to emerge.

Even the smallest crisis can give us a chance to be a hero in the

lives of others.
Her Tongue

By Henry Arthur Jones

Inconvenience! I haven't had any breakfast! And I had a most pressing

invitation to the Barringers'. They're quite the nicest people in Southsea--one
meets everybody there. Instead of that you bring me over here on the distinct
understanding that you intended--I don't understand your conduct, Mr.
Scobell. Will you please give me some explanation of it? Surely, Mr. Scobell,
you will not dare to leave me in this terrible uncertainty. Before you go on
board we must please have a thorough understanding. Will you or will you not
please give me some explanation of your conduct? Not that I wish to force
myself upon you! Please don't think that. I could never stoop to make myself
cheap to any man! I'm not driven to that necessity! No! No! A thousand times
no! It's simply that my womanly pride and delicacy have been cruelly
outraged. It's simply that I owe it to my sense of what is due to an English
lady not to be dragged over from Southsea without any breakfast, and then
made the sport of your caprice, while you sail off to Argentina, utterly
oblivious of your honour, and of the woman you have entangled and deserted!