Steve Goodier Wisdom: Before Blasting Off

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Lorraine Hansberry wrote a play called, “A Raisin in the Sun.” In that play a sister is completely out of patience with her brother. He has been so dis gusting in her eyes that she never again wants anything to do with him.

But her mother is wise. She tells her daughter that the time to love somebody is not when they have done well and made things easy for everyone. The time to love somebody is when “he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in himself ’cause the world done whipped him so.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Looking for Diamonds

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Albert Einstein said “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once discovered, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.

When I was a church pastor, a man stopped by my office to see me. He held out his hand and in it was a small, plastic gem stone. “I stepped on this gem stone when I was leaving church last Sunday,” he explained. “It became lodged in the sole of my shoe. You had spoken about how we are surrounded by diamonds — we only need to recognize them. I put the plastic stone in my pocket to remind me to recognize the “diamonds” that I need. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: The Power of Together

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

The poet Rupert Brooke set out to travel by boat from England to America. Everyone on deck had someone there to see him or her off - everyone except him. Rupert Brooke felt lonely, terribly lonely. Watching the hugging and kissing and good-byes, he wished he had someone to miss him.

The poet saw a youngster and asked his name. “William,” the boy answered. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: The Broadcasting Station

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

George Washington Carver observed, “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” But it is sometimes hard to hear the message when it is broadcast by equipment that is dirty, corroded and abused. Carver was born 150 years ago, before we used terms like toxic waste, air pollution, global warming and  deforestation. Today, we have figured out that we need to take good care of the broadcasting station if we are to hear what the Divine is saying.

This is a beautiful and fragile planet we live on. As much as we can fall in love with magnificent sunsets and pristine landscapes, few people have ever experienced its beauty as acutely as those who’ve seen it from afar. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Leaving Great Legacies

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Edwin Hubbel Chapin once said, “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” That is the definition of a legacy. Wouldn’t you love to do something that might strike a beautiful chord that will “vibrate in eternity”?

I’ve discovered something about legacies. generous people leave great legacies. I read about a couple in Canada who stopped to help a motorist who had run out of gasoline. It was a regular occurrence in their part of rural Canada. After they got him on his way, they bought a new fuel can, scratched their initials on it, filled it with petrol and stored it in the trunk of their car. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Never Too Late

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Standing at a busy Los Angeles intersection, I once noticed an interesting sight — a shirtless old man in shorts and jogging shoes running toward me. He was in his seventies, short, with a huge barrel chest. His shoulders were wide and his stomach flat and hard. The skin on his thin arms and legs hung loose. His body glistened with sweat — he had the appearance of an absolutely committed runner. When he approached the intersection, he continued to jog in place as he waited for the light to change.

I asked him, “Have you been running long?” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Because We Don’t Have Ear-Lids

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Patricia Goldman, as vice chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board, used to tell a story about how poorly airline passengers listen. She says that one flight attendant, who was frustrated by passenger inattentiveness during her what-to-do-in-an-emergency talk, changed the wording. This is what she actually said:

“When the mask drops down in front of you, place it over your naval and continue to breathe normally.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Your Own Best Friend

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Most people report that they do not usually feel confident. But exciting things can happen when we actually believe in ourselves. Here is a man who believed in his own ability even as a boy, and that confidence helped shape his adult life.

At the turn of the last century, a young boy quit school to help with the family expenses. When he was fifteen, he became interested in automobiles and worked in a garage. He subscribed to a correspondence home study course on automobiles and, after a long day in the garage, studied at the kitchen table by lamplight. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Wondrous Mystery

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Sometimes fact is more mysterious than fiction! The “Denver Post” printed an article December 23, 1981 about a stranger-than-fact event  that occurred in Colorado.

Stan Sieczkowski heard in church about a Denver family facing a rather bleak Christmas holiday. Medical bills robbed them of any extras; they would not even have a tree. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: The Pilot Smiled

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

You might be tossing about in a sea of despair. You might even feel as if your life may crash about you and you will never again be healed, whole or happy.

They say Robert Louis Stevenson told the story first. It’s worth retelling: It seems a storm caught a seafaring vessel off a rocky coast. The wind and waves threatened to drive the boat to its destruction. Read more

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