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Vol. 7 – No. 3805 September 17, 2005
Thought for the week: "The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny." – Frederick Speakman
"We should not think that we have figured love out, because it is not a problem, it's a mystery and always will be." – Garrison Keillor
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." – Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do." – Aristotle
"Show me a person who is hyper-critical, and I will show you a person who is guilty of far worse sin in his own life." – Greg Laurie
"Go the extra yard—it makes a mile of difference." – Paul M. Melia
"It is not who you know, but who wants to know you." – Patricia Fripp
"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" – Sai Baba
"The law of any church is, and always will be, evangelize or fossilize." – George E. Sweazy
"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon." – Alan Loy McGinnis
2. On the Lighter Side
A little boy was riding his tricycle furiously around the block, over and over again. Finally a policeman stopped and asked him why he was going around and around. The boy said that he was running away form home. The policeman asked why he kept going around the block. The boy responded, "Because my mom said that I'm not allowed to cross the street."
– Michael Green, Illustrations for Biblical Preaching
Happiness keeps you sweet,
Trials keep you strong,
Sorrows keep you human,
Failures keeps you humble,
Success keeps you glowing,
But only God keeps you going!
Reportedly to have been taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds.
Gandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of her own. They like other people's.
A grandfather is a man grandmother.
Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them. They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the store and have lots of quarters for us.
When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
They show us and talk to us about the color of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on "cracks."
They don't say, "Hurry up."
Usually grandmothers are fat, but not too fat to tie your shoes.
They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.
Grandparents don't have to be smart.
They have to answer questions like, "Why isn't God married?" and "How come dogs chase cats?"
When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.
Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television, because they are the only grown-ups who like to spend time with us.
They know we should have snack-time before bedtime and they say prayers with us every time, and kiss us even when we've acted bad.
If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his habit, he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat, and the bee.
They are struggling about with all their problems and frustrations, not realizing that the answer is right there "above" them
"If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them ... then the Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt" (Deuteronomy 7:12, 15, NIV).
Television's well-known newscaster, Ted Koppel, said one night on ABC's Nightline: "We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us. 'Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle.' Or 'Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but protect yourself.'
"No! The answer is no! Not because it isn't cool or smart or because you might wind up in jail or dying in the AIDS ward, but because it's wrong!
"What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, but the Ten Commandments!"
Author Dr. S.I. McMillen in his book, None of These Diseases, pointed out how many of the directives given by God to the ancient Israelites were for health and hygiene purposes. God assured his people that if they obeyed his laws they would be free from the diseases the Egyptians suffered. Not to eat pork (for obvious reasons back then) was just one of these. It's the same with all of God's directives and commandments. They are for our total well-being, physical and emotional as well as spiritual. We can't improve on God's plan. The wisest thing to do is to get in on it.
Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me to live by your rules and not mine, because your rules are for my total well-being, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Thank you for giving us these rules by which to live life to the fullest. Gratefully in Jesus' name, amen."
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