January 14
EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE
I LEARNED FROM A JIGSAW PUZZLE
1. Don't force a fit. If something is meant to be, it will come
together naturally.
2. When things aren't going so well, take a break. Everything will look different when you return.
3. Be sure to look at the big picture. Getting hung up on the little pieces only leads to frustration.
4. Perseverance pays off. Every important puzzle went together bit by bit, piece by piece.
5. When one spot stops working, move to another. But be sure to come back later (see #4).
6. The creator of the puzzle gave you the picture as a guidebook.
7. Variety is the spice of life. It's the different colors and
patterns that make the puzzle interesting.
8. Working together with friends and family makes any task fun.
9. Establish the border first. Boundaries give a sense of security and order.
10. Don't be afraid to try different combinations. Some matches are surprising.
11. Take time often to celebrate your successes (even little ones).
12. Anything worth doing takes time and effort. A great puzzle can't be rushed.
Wash Off The Stuff of The Day
One of the most successful and personable people on television is Oprah Winfrey. Movies, book clubs, she does it all. Huge business operations. While all the other talk shows on television are tearing people apart and putting all their illnesses out for public humiliation, Oprah is helping put people and families back together again. . . In a Newsweek magazine interview the interviewer asked her, "How do you separate yourself from work?" Answer, "I take a hot bath. . . My bath is my sanctuary. (Listen to this) It's the place where I can wash off all the stuff of the day" ((Jan 8, 2001, p. 45).
Baptism is a huge symbol -- it's the water of creation. . . .we are born anew. . . . life in the Spirit . . . all the "stuff" of the day is washed off. All of that is true. But at it's basic level, baptism is the death of the old self. Before anything new can be born, the old has to pass away.
MAKE ME HAPPY, LORD, BUT...
I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services. --A. W. Tozer
GOD IS HIGHLY CONFIDENT OF HIS OWN PLANS
He'll work in ways you may not recognize or understand. And He is big enough to do the things you have labeled impossible. He has enough power. He has enough time. He is bigger than your problem. Believe in Him more than in what you may see. Trust in Him more than what you may feel. You can question. He can handle your questions. God is highly confident of His own plans. He can do everything but fail. --Kathy Troccoli
Letter from Anthony (Ione Bushman’s grandson in training)
Dear Dad:
I've been noticing a lot of changes in myself lately; I am not lazy, I don't take my time getting out of bed, I'm not so selfish, we all have to go around and help each other out. All that kind a stuff makes me wish I knew you before boot camp because those are all the qualities you have, did you get them here? Anyway, I know I am always gonna stay like this because I feel a lot better about who I am, and that’s not even the reason I came here, haha, just a bonus. But that is making me pretty sure that this is the best decision I've ever made, as far as looking into my future. People like Cassie & Mom don't need this to get them to realize this kind of stuff but I can see that I definitively do.
WHEN GOD WANTS WORK DONE
God never goes to the lazy or the idle when He needs men for His service. When God wants a worker He calls a worker. When He has work to be done, He goes to those already at work. When God wants a good servant, He calls a busy man. Scripture and history attest this truth.
Moses was busy with his flocks at Horeb.
Gideon was busy threshing wheat by the wine press.
Saul was busy searching for his father's beasts.
Elisha was busy plowing with twelve yoke of oxen.
David was busy caring for his father's sheep.
Nehemiah was busy serving the king.
Amos was busy following the flock.
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea.
James and John were busy mending their nets.
Matthew was busy collecting customs.
William Carey was busy mending and making shoes.
Christian-does this tell you something about thinking we are too busy to do God's work? --Author Unknown
HOLD ON TO HIS HAND
We are only finite human beings. We can only see the present and the past. The future is a little frightening to us. So we need to hold onto God's hand and trust Him to calm our fears. And at those times when we're stubborn and resisting and He shakes us by the shoulders to get our attention, we're reminded that we don't call the shots. God has a plan for us, mysterious though it may seem, and we want to be in the center of it. All the risks notwithstanding, the center of God's will is still the safest place on earth to be. Charles Swindoll
GRACE
Grace: a gift that costs everything for the giver and nothing for the recipient. --Philip Yancey
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
While driving with my daughter and her husband, I noticed that the woman in the car ahead of us had a rather odd vanity plate.
"That's weird," I said, pointing to it. "Why would anyone want to boast about mold on their car?"
"Call me crazy," said my son-in-law after deciphering the phrase, "but I believe that reads 'FUN-GAL.'"
My wife and I, both graduate students, recently celebrated the arrival of our first child. At my wife's insistence, we had paid our entire medical bill and were now worried about meeting other payments. We were discussing our sad financial situation one evening when our son demanded a diaper change. As my wife leaned over the baby's crib, I heard her mutter, "The only thing in the house that's paid for, and it leaks."
A young lady, having committed some small offense, was made to eat dinner alone, at a little table in the corner of the kitchen. The rest of the family was paying her no attention until she began to pray in a loud voice, "I thank you, Lord, for preparing this table before me in the presence of mine enemies..."
Habits
The American educator, Horace Mann, described the predicament of habits saying: “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.” Mr. Mann, you are only half right. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, but it can be broken? There is One who will help you break it, if you desire it. Habits are often practiced without guilt, justified through cleverly devised mental schemes. We have to be continuously converted all the days of our lives, continually to turn to God as children. Life is a continuous conversion. In every setting in which we are put we have to “put on the new person.” There are whole areas of our lives which have not yet been brought into subjection, and it can only be done by this continuous conversion.
We blonds at the ofise are tired of all the the dum stoopid jokes about us. We think this is hairassment. It causes us grate stress and makes our roots turn dark. We have hired a
loyer and he is talking to the loyers at Clairol. We will take this all the way to the supream cort if we have two. Juj Thomas knos all about hairassment and he will be on are side.
We have also talked to the govner to make a new law to stop this pursicushun. We want a law that makes peepol tell brewnet jokes as much as blond jokes and every so often a red head joke. If we don't get our way we will not date anybody that ain't blond and we will make up jokes about you and we will laff.
Sined by the blonds at the ofise
Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to become a great writer. "I want to write things the whole world will read," he declared. "Stuff that will elicit strong emotions from people in every walk of life. I want my writing to make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger." He now lives happily ever after in Redmond, Wash., writing error messages for Microsoft.
I get my large circumference from too much pi.
There's a sign above the scale in my doctor's office that says
"Pretend it's your IQ."
"We Are Never Alone"
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?
His dad takes him into the forest blindfolded and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience. Each lad must come into his own manhood.
The boy was terrified -- could hear all kinds of noise. Beasts were all around him. Maybe even some human would hurt him. The wind blew the grass and earth and it shook his stump. But he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could be a man. Finally, after a horrific night..the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he saw his father sitting on the stump next to him at watch the entire night.
We are never alone. Even when we do not know it, our Father is protecting us. He is sitting on the stump beside us. All we have to do is reach out to him.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Prayer Lord, thank you for always watching over me. Remind me to trust in your presence and protection. Amen
PLANNING
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." -- Jim Rohn
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." -- Tom Hopkins
"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!" -- Brian Tracy
You can never really fathom the mind of another. -- Chinese Proverb
A contented mind is a continual feast. -- American Proverb
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. - Lisa Alther, writer
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940) English medical missionary
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance...A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. William Barclay (1907 - 1978) Clergyman and writer
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diet.
"You don't buy a fiddle today and play in Carnegie Hall tomorrow."
In moments of despair and doubt and desolation, Martin Luther would say to himself as a reminder, "I was baptized."
CHURCH BUMPER STICKERS
1. God grades on the cross, not the curve.
2. Are you wrinkled with burden? Come on in for a faith lift.
3. Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
4. A family altar can alter a family.
5. We don't change the message -- the message changes us.
6. This Church is 'prayer-conditioned'.
7. When God ordains, he sustains.
8. Plan ahead -- it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!
9. The perfect church -- for those who aren't!
10. Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous!
11. Wisdom has two parts: Having a lot to say and not saying it.
12. Hem your day with prayer and it will be less apt to unravel at the edges.
13. A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
14. Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
15. He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
16. A fellow who says it can't be done is likely to be interrupted by someone doing it.
17. Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
18. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed.
19. Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
20. Forbidden fruits create many jams.
21. Deciding not to choose is still making a choice.
22. God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called.
23. Give God what's right, not what's left!
24. 'Pray' is a four-letter word that you can say anywhere.
I LEARNED FROM A JIGSAW PUZZLE
1. Don't force a fit. If something is meant to be, it will come
together naturally.
2. When things aren't going so well, take a break. Everything will look different when you return.
3. Be sure to look at the big picture. Getting hung up on the little pieces only leads to frustration.
4. Perseverance pays off. Every important puzzle went together bit by bit, piece by piece.
5. When one spot stops working, move to another. But be sure to come back later (see #4).
6. The creator of the puzzle gave you the picture as a guidebook.
7. Variety is the spice of life. It's the different colors and
patterns that make the puzzle interesting.
8. Working together with friends and family makes any task fun.
9. Establish the border first. Boundaries give a sense of security and order.
10. Don't be afraid to try different combinations. Some matches are surprising.
11. Take time often to celebrate your successes (even little ones).
12. Anything worth doing takes time and effort. A great puzzle can't be rushed.
Wash Off The Stuff of The Day
One of the most successful and personable people on television is Oprah Winfrey. Movies, book clubs, she does it all. Huge business operations. While all the other talk shows on television are tearing people apart and putting all their illnesses out for public humiliation, Oprah is helping put people and families back together again. . . In a Newsweek magazine interview the interviewer asked her, "How do you separate yourself from work?" Answer, "I take a hot bath. . . My bath is my sanctuary. (Listen to this) It's the place where I can wash off all the stuff of the day" ((Jan 8, 2001, p. 45).
Baptism is a huge symbol -- it's the water of creation. . . .we are born anew. . . . life in the Spirit . . . all the "stuff" of the day is washed off. All of that is true. But at it's basic level, baptism is the death of the old self. Before anything new can be born, the old has to pass away.
MAKE ME HAPPY, LORD, BUT...
I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services. --A. W. Tozer
GOD IS HIGHLY CONFIDENT OF HIS OWN PLANS
He'll work in ways you may not recognize or understand. And He is big enough to do the things you have labeled impossible. He has enough power. He has enough time. He is bigger than your problem. Believe in Him more than in what you may see. Trust in Him more than what you may feel. You can question. He can handle your questions. God is highly confident of His own plans. He can do everything but fail. --Kathy Troccoli
Letter from Anthony (Ione Bushman’s grandson in training)
Dear Dad:
I've been noticing a lot of changes in myself lately; I am not lazy, I don't take my time getting out of bed, I'm not so selfish, we all have to go around and help each other out. All that kind a stuff makes me wish I knew you before boot camp because those are all the qualities you have, did you get them here? Anyway, I know I am always gonna stay like this because I feel a lot better about who I am, and that’s not even the reason I came here, haha, just a bonus. But that is making me pretty sure that this is the best decision I've ever made, as far as looking into my future. People like Cassie & Mom don't need this to get them to realize this kind of stuff but I can see that I definitively do.
WHEN GOD WANTS WORK DONE
God never goes to the lazy or the idle when He needs men for His service. When God wants a worker He calls a worker. When He has work to be done, He goes to those already at work. When God wants a good servant, He calls a busy man. Scripture and history attest this truth.
Moses was busy with his flocks at Horeb.
Gideon was busy threshing wheat by the wine press.
Saul was busy searching for his father's beasts.
Elisha was busy plowing with twelve yoke of oxen.
David was busy caring for his father's sheep.
Nehemiah was busy serving the king.
Amos was busy following the flock.
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea.
James and John were busy mending their nets.
Matthew was busy collecting customs.
William Carey was busy mending and making shoes.
Christian-does this tell you something about thinking we are too busy to do God's work? --Author Unknown
HOLD ON TO HIS HAND
We are only finite human beings. We can only see the present and the past. The future is a little frightening to us. So we need to hold onto God's hand and trust Him to calm our fears. And at those times when we're stubborn and resisting and He shakes us by the shoulders to get our attention, we're reminded that we don't call the shots. God has a plan for us, mysterious though it may seem, and we want to be in the center of it. All the risks notwithstanding, the center of God's will is still the safest place on earth to be. Charles Swindoll
GRACE
Grace: a gift that costs everything for the giver and nothing for the recipient. --Philip Yancey
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
While driving with my daughter and her husband, I noticed that the woman in the car ahead of us had a rather odd vanity plate.
"That's weird," I said, pointing to it. "Why would anyone want to boast about mold on their car?"
"Call me crazy," said my son-in-law after deciphering the phrase, "but I believe that reads 'FUN-GAL.'"
My wife and I, both graduate students, recently celebrated the arrival of our first child. At my wife's insistence, we had paid our entire medical bill and were now worried about meeting other payments. We were discussing our sad financial situation one evening when our son demanded a diaper change. As my wife leaned over the baby's crib, I heard her mutter, "The only thing in the house that's paid for, and it leaks."
A young lady, having committed some small offense, was made to eat dinner alone, at a little table in the corner of the kitchen. The rest of the family was paying her no attention until she began to pray in a loud voice, "I thank you, Lord, for preparing this table before me in the presence of mine enemies..."
Habits
The American educator, Horace Mann, described the predicament of habits saying: “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.” Mr. Mann, you are only half right. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, but it can be broken? There is One who will help you break it, if you desire it. Habits are often practiced without guilt, justified through cleverly devised mental schemes. We have to be continuously converted all the days of our lives, continually to turn to God as children. Life is a continuous conversion. In every setting in which we are put we have to “put on the new person.” There are whole areas of our lives which have not yet been brought into subjection, and it can only be done by this continuous conversion.
We blonds at the ofise are tired of all the the dum stoopid jokes about us. We think this is hairassment. It causes us grate stress and makes our roots turn dark. We have hired a
loyer and he is talking to the loyers at Clairol. We will take this all the way to the supream cort if we have two. Juj Thomas knos all about hairassment and he will be on are side.
We have also talked to the govner to make a new law to stop this pursicushun. We want a law that makes peepol tell brewnet jokes as much as blond jokes and every so often a red head joke. If we don't get our way we will not date anybody that ain't blond and we will make up jokes about you and we will laff.
Sined by the blonds at the ofise
Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to become a great writer. "I want to write things the whole world will read," he declared. "Stuff that will elicit strong emotions from people in every walk of life. I want my writing to make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger." He now lives happily ever after in Redmond, Wash., writing error messages for Microsoft.
I get my large circumference from too much pi.
There's a sign above the scale in my doctor's office that says
"Pretend it's your IQ."
"We Are Never Alone"
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?
His dad takes him into the forest blindfolded and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience. Each lad must come into his own manhood.
The boy was terrified -- could hear all kinds of noise. Beasts were all around him. Maybe even some human would hurt him. The wind blew the grass and earth and it shook his stump. But he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could be a man. Finally, after a horrific night..the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he saw his father sitting on the stump next to him at watch the entire night.
We are never alone. Even when we do not know it, our Father is protecting us. He is sitting on the stump beside us. All we have to do is reach out to him.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Prayer Lord, thank you for always watching over me. Remind me to trust in your presence and protection. Amen
PLANNING
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." -- Jim Rohn
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." -- Tom Hopkins
"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!" -- Brian Tracy
You can never really fathom the mind of another. -- Chinese Proverb
A contented mind is a continual feast. -- American Proverb
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. - Lisa Alther, writer
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940) English medical missionary
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance...A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. William Barclay (1907 - 1978) Clergyman and writer
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diet.
"You don't buy a fiddle today and play in Carnegie Hall tomorrow."
In moments of despair and doubt and desolation, Martin Luther would say to himself as a reminder, "I was baptized."
CHURCH BUMPER STICKERS
1. God grades on the cross, not the curve.
2. Are you wrinkled with burden? Come on in for a faith lift.
3. Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
4. A family altar can alter a family.
5. We don't change the message -- the message changes us.
6. This Church is 'prayer-conditioned'.
7. When God ordains, he sustains.
8. Plan ahead -- it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!
9. The perfect church -- for those who aren't!
10. Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous!
11. Wisdom has two parts: Having a lot to say and not saying it.
12. Hem your day with prayer and it will be less apt to unravel at the edges.
13. A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
14. Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
15. He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
16. A fellow who says it can't be done is likely to be interrupted by someone doing it.
17. Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
18. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed.
19. Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
20. Forbidden fruits create many jams.
21. Deciding not to choose is still making a choice.
22. God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called.
23. Give God what's right, not what's left!
24. 'Pray' is a four-letter word that you can say anywhere.
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