June 24, 2007
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
I have found the paradox
that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt,
only more love. ......Mother Teresa
"Yes, my confidence as a preacher is in the power of God's Word. That's one of the most exciting things about preaching. It's not because we like to lecture. It's not because people are staring at us and waiting for us to say something. It's because we are driven by the conviction that God's truth, that those truths recorded in human language, have the potential to transform people's lives. And that's the most exciting thing, isn't it? When you proclaim that and you see God work through it? That's what gets you hooked. And once you're hooked, you never go back." - John Koessler, in Getting Gold From the Text
“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'” - Billy Graham
"You don't hit bottom ... you hit God." - Tess character from the Touched by an Angel television show
"The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort." - John Ortberg
Independence Day in the United States commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was not an official national holiday until 1941.
• Higher Education May Not Be Religion's Enemy
In a recent study by the University of Texas at Austin, it was found that college students are less likely to abandon their faith than those who never pursued a college degree. The research, according to christianpost.com, also found that those who never attended college had the highest rates of decline in church attendance (76%), also placed diminished importance on religion (24%) and disaffiliated from religion (20%). Students who earned at least a bachelor's degree, on the other hand, had the lowest rates on those three factors with 59 percent indicating decreased church attendance and 15 percent placing less importance on religion and disaffiliating from religion.
• Most Americans Want a Religious President
American voters want a religious person to be president, according to a poll released last week by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. Over half of all respondents with an opinion (61%) believe a presidential candidate should be religious, while 39 percent do not. A majority of Americans (66%) said the candidates' specific religious affiliation is not relevant to their voting decision, while 28 percent — representing approximately 34 million people — do consider a candidate's specific religious affiliation. Most of the rest (6%) responded they were unsure if a candidate's specific religious connection influences their vote.
There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things. - Welsh Proverb
The forgetful servant –
The life of a servant requires a kind of forgetfulness,
the ability to forget our own needs in the process of
tending to someone else's. Look to the needs of others,
and trust God to supply your own needs. (Philippians 4:19)
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you."
How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends." Doc Childre
An unshaven, unkempt man approached a well-dressed woman shopping on Rodeo Drive and said, “I haven’t eaten anything in four days.”
She looked at him and said, “Man, I wish I had your willpower.”
Comfort food. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The term comfort food refers to any food or drink to which one habitually turns for temporary respite, security or special reward. The reasons that something becomes a comfort food are diverse but include the food’s familiarity, simplicity and/or pleasant associations. Small children often seem to latch on to a specific food or drink (in a way similar to a security blanket) and will repeatedly request it in high-stress situations. Adults, however, are certainly not exempt.
A substantial majority of comfort foods are composed largely of simple or complex carbohydrate, such as sugar, rice, refined wheat and so on. It has been postulated that such foods induce an opiatelike effect in the brain, which may account for their soothing nature.
The term comfort food was added to the Webster’s Dictionary in 1972.
When sick, or tired, or far from home, everyone seems to yearn for the gastronomic equivalent of a warm sweater, a kiss on the forehead, a favorite blanket. Macaroni and cheese might mean comfort to you. Or perhaps your source of succor is beef stew or udon noodles. We asked acclaimed chefs and food writers to share their favorite comfort foods and discovered that even people who have sampled the world’s culinary delights return to simple, hearty fare when they crave comfort.
Marketing professor Brian Wansink has discovered there is a gender difference in the selection of “comfort” foods.
Perhaps men are from Mars and women from Venus, at least in the eating department. When it comes to foods that bring them psychological comfort, men like hearty meals, while women look for snacks that require little or no preparation, though they may cause pangs of guilt.
Cornell University researchers have found strong gender trends in comfort food consumption. Women tend to comfort-eat when they are experiencing negative effects — loneliness, depression, guilt and stress. They tend to turn to the classic comfort foods that are higher in sugar and fat. Think chocolate. Ice cream. Brownies. Men, however, tend to eat comfort food in response to positive emotions, favoring slightly healthier foods like soups, pastas or steaks.
Illinois researchers suspect that these gender trends hold up because men turn to the foods that Mom made when they were kids. In contrast, researcher Brian Wansink notes that “because adult females are not generally accustomed to having hot food prepared for them and as children saw the female as the primary food preparer, they tend to gain psychological comfort from less labor-intensive foods such as chocolate, candy and ice cream.”
Once during Queen Victoria’s reign, she heard that the wife of a common laborer had lost her baby. Having experienced deep sorrow herself, she felt moved to express her sympathy. So she called on the bereaved woman one day and spent some time with her.
After she left, the neighbors asked what the queen had said. “Nothing,” replied the grieving mother. “She simply put her hands on mine, and we silently wept together.”
Signs to Hang in your Office
* I can please only one person per day, and today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking too good either.
* I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
* I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
* If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
* My Reality Check bounced.
* I have not yet begun to procrastinate.
* I don't suffer from stress. I'm just a carrier.
* Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
* Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
* Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
* Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
* "Work spares us from three great evils: Boredom, Vice and Need." -- Voltaire
* "Our goal should not be to be employed, but to be employable." -- Patricia Fripp
* "Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure." -- Jim Rohn
* "I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline...I firmly believe that any man's finest hour -
this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious." -- Vince Lombardi
* "You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do." -- Patricia Fripp
One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
So he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!
Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey
"Help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need." -- Jim Rohn
"You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning somersaults. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities." -- William J. H. Boetcker
"Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in the ladder to success." -- Brian Tracy
I have found the paradox
that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt,
only more love. ......Mother Teresa
"Yes, my confidence as a preacher is in the power of God's Word. That's one of the most exciting things about preaching. It's not because we like to lecture. It's not because people are staring at us and waiting for us to say something. It's because we are driven by the conviction that God's truth, that those truths recorded in human language, have the potential to transform people's lives. And that's the most exciting thing, isn't it? When you proclaim that and you see God work through it? That's what gets you hooked. And once you're hooked, you never go back." - John Koessler, in Getting Gold From the Text
“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'” - Billy Graham
"You don't hit bottom ... you hit God." - Tess character from the Touched by an Angel television show
"The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort." - John Ortberg
Independence Day in the United States commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was not an official national holiday until 1941.
• Higher Education May Not Be Religion's Enemy
In a recent study by the University of Texas at Austin, it was found that college students are less likely to abandon their faith than those who never pursued a college degree. The research, according to christianpost.com, also found that those who never attended college had the highest rates of decline in church attendance (76%), also placed diminished importance on religion (24%) and disaffiliated from religion (20%). Students who earned at least a bachelor's degree, on the other hand, had the lowest rates on those three factors with 59 percent indicating decreased church attendance and 15 percent placing less importance on religion and disaffiliating from religion.
• Most Americans Want a Religious President
American voters want a religious person to be president, according to a poll released last week by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. Over half of all respondents with an opinion (61%) believe a presidential candidate should be religious, while 39 percent do not. A majority of Americans (66%) said the candidates' specific religious affiliation is not relevant to their voting decision, while 28 percent — representing approximately 34 million people — do consider a candidate's specific religious affiliation. Most of the rest (6%) responded they were unsure if a candidate's specific religious connection influences their vote.
There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things. - Welsh Proverb
The forgetful servant –
The life of a servant requires a kind of forgetfulness,
the ability to forget our own needs in the process of
tending to someone else's. Look to the needs of others,
and trust God to supply your own needs. (Philippians 4:19)
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you."
How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends." Doc Childre
An unshaven, unkempt man approached a well-dressed woman shopping on Rodeo Drive and said, “I haven’t eaten anything in four days.”
She looked at him and said, “Man, I wish I had your willpower.”
Comfort food. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The term comfort food refers to any food or drink to which one habitually turns for temporary respite, security or special reward. The reasons that something becomes a comfort food are diverse but include the food’s familiarity, simplicity and/or pleasant associations. Small children often seem to latch on to a specific food or drink (in a way similar to a security blanket) and will repeatedly request it in high-stress situations. Adults, however, are certainly not exempt.
A substantial majority of comfort foods are composed largely of simple or complex carbohydrate, such as sugar, rice, refined wheat and so on. It has been postulated that such foods induce an opiatelike effect in the brain, which may account for their soothing nature.
The term comfort food was added to the Webster’s Dictionary in 1972.
When sick, or tired, or far from home, everyone seems to yearn for the gastronomic equivalent of a warm sweater, a kiss on the forehead, a favorite blanket. Macaroni and cheese might mean comfort to you. Or perhaps your source of succor is beef stew or udon noodles. We asked acclaimed chefs and food writers to share their favorite comfort foods and discovered that even people who have sampled the world’s culinary delights return to simple, hearty fare when they crave comfort.
Marketing professor Brian Wansink has discovered there is a gender difference in the selection of “comfort” foods.
Perhaps men are from Mars and women from Venus, at least in the eating department. When it comes to foods that bring them psychological comfort, men like hearty meals, while women look for snacks that require little or no preparation, though they may cause pangs of guilt.
Cornell University researchers have found strong gender trends in comfort food consumption. Women tend to comfort-eat when they are experiencing negative effects — loneliness, depression, guilt and stress. They tend to turn to the classic comfort foods that are higher in sugar and fat. Think chocolate. Ice cream. Brownies. Men, however, tend to eat comfort food in response to positive emotions, favoring slightly healthier foods like soups, pastas or steaks.
Illinois researchers suspect that these gender trends hold up because men turn to the foods that Mom made when they were kids. In contrast, researcher Brian Wansink notes that “because adult females are not generally accustomed to having hot food prepared for them and as children saw the female as the primary food preparer, they tend to gain psychological comfort from less labor-intensive foods such as chocolate, candy and ice cream.”
Once during Queen Victoria’s reign, she heard that the wife of a common laborer had lost her baby. Having experienced deep sorrow herself, she felt moved to express her sympathy. So she called on the bereaved woman one day and spent some time with her.
After she left, the neighbors asked what the queen had said. “Nothing,” replied the grieving mother. “She simply put her hands on mine, and we silently wept together.”
Signs to Hang in your Office
* I can please only one person per day, and today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking too good either.
* I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
* I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
* If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
* My Reality Check bounced.
* I have not yet begun to procrastinate.
* I don't suffer from stress. I'm just a carrier.
* Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
* Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
* Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
* Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
* "Work spares us from three great evils: Boredom, Vice and Need." -- Voltaire
* "Our goal should not be to be employed, but to be employable." -- Patricia Fripp
* "Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure." -- Jim Rohn
* "I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline...I firmly believe that any man's finest hour -
this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious." -- Vince Lombardi
* "You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do." -- Patricia Fripp
One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
So he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!
Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey
"Help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need." -- Jim Rohn
"You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning somersaults. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities." -- William J. H. Boetcker
"Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in the ladder to success." -- Brian Tracy
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