May 4, 2008
At my age, I've seen it all, done it all, heard it all. I just can't remember it all.
Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are too wrong to meet the standards of a holy God; pardoning grace tells you that it's all right in spite of so much in you that is wrong. --Lewis Smedes
Bill: It's my wife's birthday tomorrow. Last week I asked her what she wanted as a present.
Doug: So what did she ask for?
Bill: She said, "Oh, I don't know, just give me something with
diamonds."
And so that's why I'm giving her a deck of playing cards.
"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best." -- Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924)
Now Billy, I mean business: how many times do I have to text you!!
Did you know that the screen door can double as a cheese grater?
While politics may be the “fine art of compromise,” the same is not true of religion: the Christian life should be the “fine act of being uncompromising.”
After all the living I’ve done, I have reached an inescapable conclusion and speak as an authority when I say that it is a complete waste of time to make your bed.
How’s your son, Millie?
Oh, He’s at Harvard.
Really, what’s he studying?
No, Dottie - they’re studying him.
Are you interested in making $$$$ fast? Here's an incredibly simple way to do it, and there is nothing to buy, no investment to make, no money to lose! Try it now! Follow this simple procedure:
1) Hold down the shift key.
2) Hit the 4 key four times fast.
It's an old story but the meaning is still true. A very wealthy man donated the money to a college for a new building. During the Depression he was wiped out. He was ridiculed by some friends for having given the building to the college. "That's not the way I see it," he said. "That building is all that's left from my lifetime of work. What I gave away has been saved, what I kept has been lost."
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted, "that's not what I said!"
You need dedication combined with perspiration moving toward a destination to get your ideal realization.
Final Words By Michael Josephson of Character Counts (537.2)
If you knew you were dying, what would your final words be?
I was at a luncheon where more than a dozen highly accomplished people were given two minutes each to answer that question. They were prominent scientists (including a Nobel Prize winner), successful business executives, and noted academics, doctors, lawyers, journalists, and one astronaut. Despite their imposing resumes, not one person made a single reference to their work or vast accomplishments.
It proved the truth of the insight underlying Harold Kushner's statement: "I never met anyone on their deathbed who said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'"
Our work may be a vital part of our lives, but in the end what matters are people and relationships.
All of the speakers addressed their last words to loved ones--a life partner, child, sibling, or special friend. The words were from the heart, and it was a touching experience. But what struck me most was realizing how unlikely it is that any of us will actually have the opportunity to deliver final words. Death is not likely to be that predictable or efficient.
The fact is, the way we live our life, the choices we make, and our daily words and actions may be the final messages we send to our loved ones. So if there's something you should say--expressing your love or gratitude or maybe regrets for things you did or failed to do about rifts in the relationship--say it now and say it from your heart.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts. © 2007 Josephson Institute of Ethics.
"We think of Eternal Life, if we think of it at all, as what happens when life ends. We would do better to think of it as what happens when life begins." - Frederick Buechner
Seen on a church sign: "If evolution is true, how come mothers still have only two hands?"
Serendipity 3, a New York restaurant, offers a $25,000 chocolate sundae called “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” featuring 28 cocoas, 0.2 ounces of edible gold, served in a goblet lined with edible gold, with an 18-karat gold bracelet with a carat of white diamonds draped around the base of the goblet. The sundae is topped with whipped cream covered with gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 per pound. It is eaten with a gold spoon decorated with white chocolate-covered diamonds.
The cost of feeding, housing and clothing a child born in the year 2007 until his or her 18th birthday is $269,040.
For the first time in history, the national debt will hit $10 trillion this year, even though annual surpluses were so large in 1999 that the Congressional Budget Office predicted it would be paid off in 2006. It now grows at $1.4 billion a day, or about $1 million per minute.
- "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." --George Eliot
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." -- C.S. Lewis
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;
we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom;
we drift toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;
we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism;
we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. -- D.A. Carson
Dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few days of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish.
A Bible Lesson.....
Nine year old Joey, was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school. "Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he used his walkie - talkie to radio headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved."
"Now, Joey, is that *really* what your teacher taught you?"his mother asked.
"Well, no, Mom. But if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!"
Ten Commandments
My nephew, who has just started the first grade, was asked to memorize the Ten Commandments. Upon reciting the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," he was asked what this commandment meant. With absolute seriousness he replied, "That means that you shouldn't want to become an adult."
New Hymn....A child came home from Sunday school and told his mother that he had learned a new song about a cross-eyed bear name "Gladly." It took his mother awhile before she realized that the hymn was really "Gladly, The Cross I'd Bare."
A friend of ours told us of a day when she got so upset with two small preschoolers fighting over a doll that she grabbed the doll and threw it out the window. She then lectured the little children on sharing and on not fighting and was sure when she had finished that she had taught them something.
She had! Later that day, she found the children throwing loaves of bread out the window. Children will always learn more from what they see us do than from what they hear us say!-Linda & Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world, and more people have been driven from the church by the hardness and ugliness of so-called Christianity than by all the doubts in the world. -- William Barclay, Leadership
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim God with their mouths and deny Him with their lifestyles is what an unbelieving world finds simply unbelievable. -- Karl Rahner, quoted in the Wittenburg Door
MAY YOU FIND .....
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a world you may not always understand.
May you not become too concerned with material matters,
but instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart.
Find time in each day to see beauty and love in the world around you.
Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard
you may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present
may become one of your strengths in the future.
May you see your future
as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.
May you find enough inner strength
to determine your own worth by yourself,
and not be dependent
on another's judgment of your accomplishments.~~author unknown~~
Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are too wrong to meet the standards of a holy God; pardoning grace tells you that it's all right in spite of so much in you that is wrong. --Lewis Smedes
Bill: It's my wife's birthday tomorrow. Last week I asked her what she wanted as a present.
Doug: So what did she ask for?
Bill: She said, "Oh, I don't know, just give me something with
diamonds."
And so that's why I'm giving her a deck of playing cards.
"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best." -- Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924)
Now Billy, I mean business: how many times do I have to text you!!
Did you know that the screen door can double as a cheese grater?
While politics may be the “fine art of compromise,” the same is not true of religion: the Christian life should be the “fine act of being uncompromising.”
After all the living I’ve done, I have reached an inescapable conclusion and speak as an authority when I say that it is a complete waste of time to make your bed.
How’s your son, Millie?
Oh, He’s at Harvard.
Really, what’s he studying?
No, Dottie - they’re studying him.
Are you interested in making $$$$ fast? Here's an incredibly simple way to do it, and there is nothing to buy, no investment to make, no money to lose! Try it now! Follow this simple procedure:
1) Hold down the shift key.
2) Hit the 4 key four times fast.
It's an old story but the meaning is still true. A very wealthy man donated the money to a college for a new building. During the Depression he was wiped out. He was ridiculed by some friends for having given the building to the college. "That's not the way I see it," he said. "That building is all that's left from my lifetime of work. What I gave away has been saved, what I kept has been lost."
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted, "that's not what I said!"
You need dedication combined with perspiration moving toward a destination to get your ideal realization.
Final Words By Michael Josephson of Character Counts (537.2)
If you knew you were dying, what would your final words be?
I was at a luncheon where more than a dozen highly accomplished people were given two minutes each to answer that question. They were prominent scientists (including a Nobel Prize winner), successful business executives, and noted academics, doctors, lawyers, journalists, and one astronaut. Despite their imposing resumes, not one person made a single reference to their work or vast accomplishments.
It proved the truth of the insight underlying Harold Kushner's statement: "I never met anyone on their deathbed who said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'"
Our work may be a vital part of our lives, but in the end what matters are people and relationships.
All of the speakers addressed their last words to loved ones--a life partner, child, sibling, or special friend. The words were from the heart, and it was a touching experience. But what struck me most was realizing how unlikely it is that any of us will actually have the opportunity to deliver final words. Death is not likely to be that predictable or efficient.
The fact is, the way we live our life, the choices we make, and our daily words and actions may be the final messages we send to our loved ones. So if there's something you should say--expressing your love or gratitude or maybe regrets for things you did or failed to do about rifts in the relationship--say it now and say it from your heart.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts. © 2007 Josephson Institute of Ethics.
"We think of Eternal Life, if we think of it at all, as what happens when life ends. We would do better to think of it as what happens when life begins." - Frederick Buechner
Seen on a church sign: "If evolution is true, how come mothers still have only two hands?"
Serendipity 3, a New York restaurant, offers a $25,000 chocolate sundae called “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” featuring 28 cocoas, 0.2 ounces of edible gold, served in a goblet lined with edible gold, with an 18-karat gold bracelet with a carat of white diamonds draped around the base of the goblet. The sundae is topped with whipped cream covered with gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 per pound. It is eaten with a gold spoon decorated with white chocolate-covered diamonds.
The cost of feeding, housing and clothing a child born in the year 2007 until his or her 18th birthday is $269,040.
For the first time in history, the national debt will hit $10 trillion this year, even though annual surpluses were so large in 1999 that the Congressional Budget Office predicted it would be paid off in 2006. It now grows at $1.4 billion a day, or about $1 million per minute.
- "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." --George Eliot
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." -- C.S. Lewis
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;
we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom;
we drift toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;
we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism;
we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. -- D.A. Carson
Dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few days of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish.
A Bible Lesson.....
Nine year old Joey, was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school. "Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he used his walkie - talkie to radio headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved."
"Now, Joey, is that *really* what your teacher taught you?"his mother asked.
"Well, no, Mom. But if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!"
Ten Commandments
My nephew, who has just started the first grade, was asked to memorize the Ten Commandments. Upon reciting the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," he was asked what this commandment meant. With absolute seriousness he replied, "That means that you shouldn't want to become an adult."
New Hymn....A child came home from Sunday school and told his mother that he had learned a new song about a cross-eyed bear name "Gladly." It took his mother awhile before she realized that the hymn was really "Gladly, The Cross I'd Bare."
A friend of ours told us of a day when she got so upset with two small preschoolers fighting over a doll that she grabbed the doll and threw it out the window. She then lectured the little children on sharing and on not fighting and was sure when she had finished that she had taught them something.
She had! Later that day, she found the children throwing loaves of bread out the window. Children will always learn more from what they see us do than from what they hear us say!-Linda & Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world, and more people have been driven from the church by the hardness and ugliness of so-called Christianity than by all the doubts in the world. -- William Barclay, Leadership
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim God with their mouths and deny Him with their lifestyles is what an unbelieving world finds simply unbelievable. -- Karl Rahner, quoted in the Wittenburg Door
MAY YOU FIND .....
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a world you may not always understand.
May you not become too concerned with material matters,
but instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart.
Find time in each day to see beauty and love in the world around you.
Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard
you may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present
may become one of your strengths in the future.
May you see your future
as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.
May you find enough inner strength
to determine your own worth by yourself,
and not be dependent
on another's judgment of your accomplishments.~~author unknown~~
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