December 9
The Weaver
My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me,
I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride
forget He sees the upper but I the under side.
Not till the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly,
shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needed in the Weaver's skillful hand,
as threads of gold and silver in the pattern life has planned
When to Change Directions
Sometimes the best thing we can do is to move on to another field. Paul Harvey tells the story of Joe, who was born into a family of Sicilian immigrants, a family who had a 300-year history as fishermen. Joe's dad was a fisherman. His brothers were fishermen. But Joe was made sick by the smell of raw fish and the motion of a rocking boat. In a family where the only acceptable way to earn a living was by fishing, Joe was a failure. His dad used to refer to his son as "good for nothing." Joe believed his dad. He believed that his attempts at other types of work were an admission of failure, but he just couldn't stand the smell of the fishing business. One thing that Joe could do was to play baseball. Giving up a field where he could not succeed, Joe DiMaggio moved to another field and became one of the great successes of baseball.
"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress." ~ Ronald Reagan
"It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice." -- Unknown
"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty." -- Denis Waitley
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller
* MICROCOSM *
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result
12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is
"s ub c ont in ent al".
From “Preparing for Christmas” by Richard Rohr:
“We’re not waiting for the darkness to go away, brothers and sisters. I’ve certainly worked long enough in ministry to know it won’t go away. We wish it would go away, especially in some of the great social issues. We wish world hunger would be eliminated. We wish we’d stop creating arms and killing people. But one has to surrender at a certain point and admit that the darkness is here. How do we deal with that?
Don’t name the darkness light! Don’t name darkness good. I think many of our people have been seduced into doing that. The way out is to simply stop calling it OK. When we refuse to name darkness, we will be trapped by it. That’s dangerous and false innocence. When we can name the darkness, we can learn how to live so that the darkness does not overcome us. The problem of the First World countries is that the edges between darkness and light in middle-class society have become very, very vague. When nothing is forbidden, nothing is required.”
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Americans Vary in Their Religious Beliefs
Born-again Christians — the term usually referring to evangelical Protestants, according to christianpost.com — are more likely to believe in traditional elements of the faith, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll. Examples include 92 percent who believe in the devil and hell, in comparison to Catholics who believe in the devil at 73 percent (hell at 75%) and Protestants who believe in the devil at 79 percent (hell at 78%).
Interestingly, 89 percent of born-again Christians believe in the virgin birth, as compared to Catholics at 72 percent or Protestants at 79 percent. Fewer born-again Christians believe in Darwin's theory of evolution at 16 percent, compared to Catholics at 43 percent and Protestants at 30 percent. Born-again Christians are more likely to believe in miracles (95%) than Catholics (87%) or Protestants (89%).
Born-again Christians believe that the Old Testament and the New Testament are mostly the Word of God (88% and 86% respectively); while only 33 percent believe that The Torah is the word of God, even though it is the same as the first five books of the Old Testament.
Visit www.harrisinteractive.com for the entire survey.
Former retired engineer, Guenther Eichmann, 54, was stopped by police after he was clocked doing 40mph down a street in a tuned-up electric wheelchair, according to Ananova. Eichmann told police in Geseke, Germany, that he had modified the wheel chair's electric engine so it could go faster. After being stopped doing twice the speed limit, his vehicle was confiscated and he was slapped with a fine.
My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me,
I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride
forget He sees the upper but I the under side.
Not till the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly,
shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needed in the Weaver's skillful hand,
as threads of gold and silver in the pattern life has planned
When to Change Directions
Sometimes the best thing we can do is to move on to another field. Paul Harvey tells the story of Joe, who was born into a family of Sicilian immigrants, a family who had a 300-year history as fishermen. Joe's dad was a fisherman. His brothers were fishermen. But Joe was made sick by the smell of raw fish and the motion of a rocking boat. In a family where the only acceptable way to earn a living was by fishing, Joe was a failure. His dad used to refer to his son as "good for nothing." Joe believed his dad. He believed that his attempts at other types of work were an admission of failure, but he just couldn't stand the smell of the fishing business. One thing that Joe could do was to play baseball. Giving up a field where he could not succeed, Joe DiMaggio moved to another field and became one of the great successes of baseball.
"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress." ~ Ronald Reagan
"It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice." -- Unknown
"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty." -- Denis Waitley
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller
* MICROCOSM *
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result
12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is
"s ub c ont in ent al".
From “Preparing for Christmas” by Richard Rohr:
“We’re not waiting for the darkness to go away, brothers and sisters. I’ve certainly worked long enough in ministry to know it won’t go away. We wish it would go away, especially in some of the great social issues. We wish world hunger would be eliminated. We wish we’d stop creating arms and killing people. But one has to surrender at a certain point and admit that the darkness is here. How do we deal with that?
Don’t name the darkness light! Don’t name darkness good. I think many of our people have been seduced into doing that. The way out is to simply stop calling it OK. When we refuse to name darkness, we will be trapped by it. That’s dangerous and false innocence. When we can name the darkness, we can learn how to live so that the darkness does not overcome us. The problem of the First World countries is that the edges between darkness and light in middle-class society have become very, very vague. When nothing is forbidden, nothing is required.”
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Americans Vary in Their Religious Beliefs
Born-again Christians — the term usually referring to evangelical Protestants, according to christianpost.com — are more likely to believe in traditional elements of the faith, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll. Examples include 92 percent who believe in the devil and hell, in comparison to Catholics who believe in the devil at 73 percent (hell at 75%) and Protestants who believe in the devil at 79 percent (hell at 78%).
Interestingly, 89 percent of born-again Christians believe in the virgin birth, as compared to Catholics at 72 percent or Protestants at 79 percent. Fewer born-again Christians believe in Darwin's theory of evolution at 16 percent, compared to Catholics at 43 percent and Protestants at 30 percent. Born-again Christians are more likely to believe in miracles (95%) than Catholics (87%) or Protestants (89%).
Born-again Christians believe that the Old Testament and the New Testament are mostly the Word of God (88% and 86% respectively); while only 33 percent believe that The Torah is the word of God, even though it is the same as the first five books of the Old Testament.
Visit www.harrisinteractive.com for the entire survey.
Former retired engineer, Guenther Eichmann, 54, was stopped by police after he was clocked doing 40mph down a street in a tuned-up electric wheelchair, according to Ananova. Eichmann told police in Geseke, Germany, that he had modified the wheel chair's electric engine so it could go faster. After being stopped doing twice the speed limit, his vehicle was confiscated and he was slapped with a fine.
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