June 17, 2007
"How blessed are the children, Who in their father see, The tender father-love of God, And find their way to Thee " -- Unknown
Someone has observed that in state penitentiaries prisoners frequently request "Happy Mother's Day" cards. They almost never ask for "Happy Father's day" cards. I wonder why that would be?
Okay, dad, let's be realistic. When it comes to comparing dads with moms, there is no comparison. For instance, consumers are expected to spend $98.34 this year on dad; they spent $139.14 on mom.
Father's Day is most popular in the Midwest (77.1% celebrate), less so in the West (74.4%). Roughly 70 percent of dads will get a greeting card. (Source: Natl. Retail Federation. Greeting Card Assn. USAToday)
What makes Father's Day so "priceless" is the number of dads in our great country. There are approximately 64.3 million fathers in our nation. An estimated 26.5 million of those dads are married with children under the age of 18 — millions who have the "priceless" opportunity to influence their children and direct their lives properly.
The challenge comes, however, when each dad must decide how involved he will be in his child's life. That decision is "priceless."
a Father's Day message has an emphasis on three things.
1. Fathering must be intentional. Parenting of any value does not leave the results to chance. Dads must take seriously the development of their family.
2. Fathering must be patient and loving. Dads need to be involved. That means we are called to show love in such a way that our children can model our behavior. Showing love to their mom is a great start — loving them is "priceless."
3. Fathering must be spiritual. For a child to properly develop as a whole person, he or she needs a dad with biblical values, and one who puts into practice his faith. Statistics prove that families with godly dads, in the end, have a better result. Bottom line: "Dad" — you're priceless!!
• Barna: Atheists, Agnostics and Christians
Atheists — who have determined there is no God — and Agnostics — who doubt His existence — are adopting a more aggressive, intentional effort to discredit the notion that God exists and to critique people of faith. A new survey by The Barna Group points out that most atheists and agnostics (56%) agree with the idea that radical Christianity is just as threatening in America as is radical Islam. In size, the "no-faith" group represents about one out of every 11 Americans (9%). However, in a nation of more than 220 million adults, that comprises roughly 20 million people.
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
During the year ending in September 2006 about 30.1 percent of women and 23.0 percent of men did volunteer work. People who were between the ages of 35 to 54 were the most likely age group to volunteer (31.2 percent), and people in their 20s were the least likely (17.8) percent. The age group with the largest decline in volunteerism from 2005 to 2006 was high school students (33.5 to 28.8 percent). - Source: U.S. Department of Labor
"God has someone for each ministry he initiates, so don't force pieces into the wrong slots by not doing your homework. Guard yourself from the temptation to fill a position with a warm body." - Wayne Cordeiro, Doing Church as a Team (Regal, 2004)
"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. ... It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right." - Peter Parker in Spiderman 3
My Dad's Hands
Bedtime came, we were settling down,
I was holding one of my lads.
As I grasped him so tight, I saw a strange sight:
My hands. . .they looked like my dad's!
I remember them well, those old gnarled hooks,
there was always a cracked nail or two.
And thanks to a hammer that strayed from its mark,
his thumb was a beautiful blue!
They were rough, I remember, incredibly tough,
as strong as a carpenter's vice.
But holding a scared little boy at night,
they seemed to me awfully nice!
The sight of those hands - how impressive it was
in the eyes of his little boy.
Other dads' hands were cleaner, it seemed
(the effects of their office employ).
I gave little thought in my formative years
of the reason for Dad's raspy mitts:
The love in the toil, the dirt and the oil,
rusty plumbing that gave those hands fits!
Thinking back, misty-eyed, and thinking ahead,
when one day my time is done.
The torch of love in my own wrinkled hands
will pass on to the hands of my son.
I don't mind the bruises, the scars here and there
or the hammer that just seemed to slip.
I want most of all when my son takes my hand,
to feel that love lies in the grip.
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -- C.S. Lewis
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"Do not blame anybody else for your mistakes and failures." -- Bernard Baruch
"You life is a gift from God. What you make of it is your presentation back to God."
"Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless." -- Mother Teresa
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." -- Oscar Wilde
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan
The wurst new flavors you can imagine... Hoping to spice up their summer business, German butchers have introduced a new line of exotic-tasting sausages with flavors ranging from kiwi, maraschino cherry, lemon and even aloe vera.
The wide variety of new ingredients may seem like heresy to what is for many ordinary Germans the national dish. But for others the new flavors may help negate stagnant demand for the greasy Bratwurst you can find on almost any street corner.
Berlin butcher Uwe Buenger has developed a "chili-honey" Bratwurst while rival Dankert has come up with a "kiwi wurst" that also includes pineapples and maraschino cherries, Bild newspaper reported Tuesday.
For sausage connoisseurs, there is also the "Truefflebratwurst" that includes truffle, a fungus spiced with black and white pepper. Other sausages in Berlin are made of lamb, ginger, parsley, cardamom and edible blossoms.
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. --Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want To Hear
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian . . . and most of all, his family ought to know.--D. L. Moody
* The man who finds a good woman, should show his son how to avoid a bad one
* (Proverbs 2, 5, 6, 7, 9)
* Thank God for fathers who not only gave us life but taught us what to do with it.
* Make a list of the special things you remember about your own dad, whether he's living or not. Then go back and take special note of the things from your list that you see in your own life. What does that say to you about influence? (Is it too late to thank him?)
While my friend was working as a receptionist for an eye surgeon, a very angry woman stormed up to her desk.. "Someone stole my wig while I was having surgery yesterday," she complained. The doctor came out and tried to calm her down. "I assure you that no one on my staff would have done such a thing," he said. "Why do you think it was taken here?"
"After the operation, I noticed the wig I was wearing was cheap-looking and ugly."
"I think" explained the surgeon gently, "that means your cataract operation was a success."
No one told any better golf stories than Bob Hope. "Jerry Ford was the first person to make golf a contact sport. When he yelled, 'Fore!', you never knew if he was telling people to get out of the way or predicting how many spectators he was going to hit."
So What CAN We Eat?
Can't eat beef... mad cow and e-coli
Can't eat chicken... bird flu
Can't eat eggs... again, bird flu
Can't eat pork...fears that bird flu will infect piggies
Can't eat fish...heavy metals in the water has poisoned their meat
Can't eat fruits and veggies....... insecticides and herbicides
Hmmmm! I believe that leaves chocolate!
Someone has observed that in state penitentiaries prisoners frequently request "Happy Mother's Day" cards. They almost never ask for "Happy Father's day" cards. I wonder why that would be?
Okay, dad, let's be realistic. When it comes to comparing dads with moms, there is no comparison. For instance, consumers are expected to spend $98.34 this year on dad; they spent $139.14 on mom.
Father's Day is most popular in the Midwest (77.1% celebrate), less so in the West (74.4%). Roughly 70 percent of dads will get a greeting card. (Source: Natl. Retail Federation. Greeting Card Assn. USAToday)
What makes Father's Day so "priceless" is the number of dads in our great country. There are approximately 64.3 million fathers in our nation. An estimated 26.5 million of those dads are married with children under the age of 18 — millions who have the "priceless" opportunity to influence their children and direct their lives properly.
The challenge comes, however, when each dad must decide how involved he will be in his child's life. That decision is "priceless."
a Father's Day message has an emphasis on three things.
1. Fathering must be intentional. Parenting of any value does not leave the results to chance. Dads must take seriously the development of their family.
2. Fathering must be patient and loving. Dads need to be involved. That means we are called to show love in such a way that our children can model our behavior. Showing love to their mom is a great start — loving them is "priceless."
3. Fathering must be spiritual. For a child to properly develop as a whole person, he or she needs a dad with biblical values, and one who puts into practice his faith. Statistics prove that families with godly dads, in the end, have a better result. Bottom line: "Dad" — you're priceless!!
• Barna: Atheists, Agnostics and Christians
Atheists — who have determined there is no God — and Agnostics — who doubt His existence — are adopting a more aggressive, intentional effort to discredit the notion that God exists and to critique people of faith. A new survey by The Barna Group points out that most atheists and agnostics (56%) agree with the idea that radical Christianity is just as threatening in America as is radical Islam. In size, the "no-faith" group represents about one out of every 11 Americans (9%). However, in a nation of more than 220 million adults, that comprises roughly 20 million people.
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
During the year ending in September 2006 about 30.1 percent of women and 23.0 percent of men did volunteer work. People who were between the ages of 35 to 54 were the most likely age group to volunteer (31.2 percent), and people in their 20s were the least likely (17.8) percent. The age group with the largest decline in volunteerism from 2005 to 2006 was high school students (33.5 to 28.8 percent). - Source: U.S. Department of Labor
"God has someone for each ministry he initiates, so don't force pieces into the wrong slots by not doing your homework. Guard yourself from the temptation to fill a position with a warm body." - Wayne Cordeiro, Doing Church as a Team (Regal, 2004)
"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. ... It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right." - Peter Parker in Spiderman 3
My Dad's Hands
Bedtime came, we were settling down,
I was holding one of my lads.
As I grasped him so tight, I saw a strange sight:
My hands. . .they looked like my dad's!
I remember them well, those old gnarled hooks,
there was always a cracked nail or two.
And thanks to a hammer that strayed from its mark,
his thumb was a beautiful blue!
They were rough, I remember, incredibly tough,
as strong as a carpenter's vice.
But holding a scared little boy at night,
they seemed to me awfully nice!
The sight of those hands - how impressive it was
in the eyes of his little boy.
Other dads' hands were cleaner, it seemed
(the effects of their office employ).
I gave little thought in my formative years
of the reason for Dad's raspy mitts:
The love in the toil, the dirt and the oil,
rusty plumbing that gave those hands fits!
Thinking back, misty-eyed, and thinking ahead,
when one day my time is done.
The torch of love in my own wrinkled hands
will pass on to the hands of my son.
I don't mind the bruises, the scars here and there
or the hammer that just seemed to slip.
I want most of all when my son takes my hand,
to feel that love lies in the grip.
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -- C.S. Lewis
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"Do not blame anybody else for your mistakes and failures." -- Bernard Baruch
"You life is a gift from God. What you make of it is your presentation back to God."
"Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless." -- Mother Teresa
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." -- Oscar Wilde
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan
The wurst new flavors you can imagine... Hoping to spice up their summer business, German butchers have introduced a new line of exotic-tasting sausages with flavors ranging from kiwi, maraschino cherry, lemon and even aloe vera.
The wide variety of new ingredients may seem like heresy to what is for many ordinary Germans the national dish. But for others the new flavors may help negate stagnant demand for the greasy Bratwurst you can find on almost any street corner.
Berlin butcher Uwe Buenger has developed a "chili-honey" Bratwurst while rival Dankert has come up with a "kiwi wurst" that also includes pineapples and maraschino cherries, Bild newspaper reported Tuesday.
For sausage connoisseurs, there is also the "Truefflebratwurst" that includes truffle, a fungus spiced with black and white pepper. Other sausages in Berlin are made of lamb, ginger, parsley, cardamom and edible blossoms.
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. --Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want To Hear
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian . . . and most of all, his family ought to know.--D. L. Moody
* The man who finds a good woman, should show his son how to avoid a bad one
* (Proverbs 2, 5, 6, 7, 9)
* Thank God for fathers who not only gave us life but taught us what to do with it.
* Make a list of the special things you remember about your own dad, whether he's living or not. Then go back and take special note of the things from your list that you see in your own life. What does that say to you about influence? (Is it too late to thank him?)
While my friend was working as a receptionist for an eye surgeon, a very angry woman stormed up to her desk.. "Someone stole my wig while I was having surgery yesterday," she complained. The doctor came out and tried to calm her down. "I assure you that no one on my staff would have done such a thing," he said. "Why do you think it was taken here?"
"After the operation, I noticed the wig I was wearing was cheap-looking and ugly."
"I think" explained the surgeon gently, "that means your cataract operation was a success."
No one told any better golf stories than Bob Hope. "Jerry Ford was the first person to make golf a contact sport. When he yelled, 'Fore!', you never knew if he was telling people to get out of the way or predicting how many spectators he was going to hit."
So What CAN We Eat?
Can't eat beef... mad cow and e-coli
Can't eat chicken... bird flu
Can't eat eggs... again, bird flu
Can't eat pork...fears that bird flu will infect piggies
Can't eat fish...heavy metals in the water has poisoned their meat
Can't eat fruits and veggies....... insecticides and herbicides
Hmmmm! I believe that leaves chocolate!
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