Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A schoolteacher once asked a group of children to write down on a card the one thing in the world they were most thankful for. Most of the children wrote down the usual predictable things, but one boy in the class said […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Scientific research is now confirming what many of us have suspected all along – that love plays a big part in the healing of a hurting body. The poet Elizabeth Barrett was an invalid for many years, unable to lift her head […]
Today’s message was written by the Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkle, founder of Dial Hope. One day a man noticed two boys with their faces pressed against a store window, their arms raised above their heads. Curious, he joined them. In the shop window, there was an electronic display depicting the earth and its relation to […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. One of my favorite Peanuts comic strips is one that was printed some years ago, just a few days before Thanksgiving. Lucy is feeling sorry for herself, and she laments, “My life is a drag. I’m completely fed up. I’ve never felt so […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A small dog had been struck by a car and was lying wounded by the side of the road. A doctor driving by noticed that the dog was still alive, stopped his car, picked up the dog, and took him home. There […]
Today’s message was written by the Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkle, founder of Dial Hope. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Friend of Dial Hope, you can make a difference to someone—if you will. There’s a story about […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. I want to begin this meditation with a passage from the New Testament, 1 Peter 1:22: “Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Listen to this profound epitaph found on an English gravestone: “What I kept, I lost. What I spent, I had. What I gave, I have.” Friend of Dial Hope, as you well know, the art of keeping isn’t all bad. There will […]
Today’s message was written by my friend Roger Kunkel, Founder of Dial Hope. In Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island, he writes of five men who escaped a Civil War prison camp by hijacking a hot-air balloon. As they rise into the air, they realize the wind is carrying them over the ocean. As the […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Today I want to suggest an exciting idea – I want you to try giving yourself away. I once knew a man who suffered a nervous breakdown, during which he sat for months in gloom and mental darkness. One day I suggested […]
