September Newsletter
The Trip Home
A pastor had been on a long flight between church conferences. The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on: Fasten Your Seat Belts. Then, after a while, a calm voice said, 'We shall not be serving the beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence. Please be sure your seat belt is fastened.' As the pastor looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive. Later, the voice on the intercom said, 'We are so sorry that we are unable to serve the meal at this time. The turbulence is still ahead of us.'
And then the storm broke.
The ominous cracks of thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines. Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and within moments that great plane was like a cork tossed around on a celestial ocean. One moment the airplane was lifted on terrific currents of air; the next, it dropped as if it were about to crash. The pastor confessed that he shared the discomfort and fear of those around him. He said, 'As I looked around the plane, I could see that nearly all the passengers were upset and alarmed. Some were praying.
The future seemed ominous and many were wondering if they would make it through the storm.
'Then, I suddenly saw a little girl. Apparently the storm meant nothing to her. She had tucked her feet beneath her as she sat on her seat; she was reading a book and every- thing within her small world was calm and orderly.
'Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again; then she would straighten her legs, but worry and fear were not in her world. When the plane was being buffeted by the terrible storm when it lurched this way and that, as it rose and fell with frightening severity, when all the adults were scared half to death, that marvelous child was completely composed and unafraid.' The minister could hardly believe his eyes.
It was not surprising therefore, that when the plane finally reached its destination and all the passengers were hurrying to disembark, our pastor lingered to speak to the girl whom he had watched for such a long time. Having commented about the storm and the behavior of the plane, he asked why she had not been afraid.
The child replied, 'Cause my Daddy's the pilot, and he's taking me home.'
There are many kinds of storms that buffet us. Physical, mental, financial, domestic, and many other storms can easily and quickly darken our skies and throw our plane into apparently uncontrollable movement. We have all known such times, and let us be honest and confess, it is much easier to be at rest when our feet are on the ground than when we are being tossed about a darkened sky.
Let us remember: Our Father is the Pilot.
He is in control and taking us home. Don't worry!
BIBLE VERSE Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; Psalm 23:4
PRAYER
Dear God, Thank you for taking care of me even in the storms of life. Amen
APHORISM: a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth; adage
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM . Like this: It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says "It's only a game." when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry In a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 50, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably Dead!!
20. Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don't mind. And The ones who mind, don't matter.
Trivia
1. True or False. Just before the Olympic Games, China executed three persons convicted of plotting to disrupt the games.
2. Which of the following political parties will not be represented on the November 4 presidential election ballot in Ohio? Only one answer.
Republican / Democrat / Independent / Libertarian / Socialist / Green / Constitutional
3. When football was first played (circa early 1880s), how many points were awarded for scoring a touchdown? 1 2 4 7 10
4. When William Henry Harrison died after being president for only a month, Vice President John Tyler became president. What was he doing when notified of the president’s death?
playing marbles, pruning roses, building a chapel behind his cabin
cleaning his chimney, in a tree picking apples
5. Adolph Hitler had a private train of fifteen cars. What did he name that train?
Mein Kampf Amerika Greta Jubilee Reich 3 Fuehrer 1
6. August was the month in 1858 of the famous debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the Illinois senate. How many times did the two men debate one another?
7. From a numerical standpoint, what is the largest religion in the world?
I don’t know much about the Olympics, but it seems to me if there is a javelin thrower, shouldn’t there also be a javelin catcher?
Exercise: the purpose of golf which is experienced when you move your clubs from the trunk of your car onto the golf cart.
Question. What would you have if you crossed a dog with a calculator. Answer. A friend you can count on.
I turned on the TV the other day and thought I had happened onto one of those crazy reality shows. But it was just the news.
Father. William, let me tell you a little about patience.
William. Dad, is it going to be long? Can you give me just the bullet points? Maybe a few short highlights? Better yet, if you text it to me, I could skim it much faster…..
Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.
I’m just curious: how many times around the block would I have to run to be a marathoner?
Is a recumbent incumbent a politician who won’t take a stand on the issues?
The best way to live in the world is to live above the world.
To ease another’s suffering, help carry it.
The promises of God are in the present tense. (Billy Sunday)
I text’d my friend Mooky. He didn‘t answer. Then I phoned him, emailed him, and faxed him - still no answer. Finally, I just went right next door and rang the bell.
I overheard my five year old daughter tell my three year old son, “When I was your age, gasoline was only $3 a gallon.”
I quickly found out that my new watchdog wasn’t going to work out. So I replaced the Beware of the Dog sign with Don’t Trip Over the Dog.
Hard work never killed anyone who supervises it.
There may be some confusion when a church preaches that the end is near and then wants its members to sign a three-year pledge for the construction of the new church building.
Trivia Answers
1. 1. True
2. Green
3. 4
4. Playing marbles
5. Amerika
6. 7
7. Islam (just recently surpassing the Roman Catholic Church which held the top spot for centuries)
A pastor had been on a long flight between church conferences. The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on: Fasten Your Seat Belts. Then, after a while, a calm voice said, 'We shall not be serving the beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence. Please be sure your seat belt is fastened.' As the pastor looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive. Later, the voice on the intercom said, 'We are so sorry that we are unable to serve the meal at this time. The turbulence is still ahead of us.'
And then the storm broke.
The ominous cracks of thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines. Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and within moments that great plane was like a cork tossed around on a celestial ocean. One moment the airplane was lifted on terrific currents of air; the next, it dropped as if it were about to crash. The pastor confessed that he shared the discomfort and fear of those around him. He said, 'As I looked around the plane, I could see that nearly all the passengers were upset and alarmed. Some were praying.
The future seemed ominous and many were wondering if they would make it through the storm.
'Then, I suddenly saw a little girl. Apparently the storm meant nothing to her. She had tucked her feet beneath her as she sat on her seat; she was reading a book and every- thing within her small world was calm and orderly.
'Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again; then she would straighten her legs, but worry and fear were not in her world. When the plane was being buffeted by the terrible storm when it lurched this way and that, as it rose and fell with frightening severity, when all the adults were scared half to death, that marvelous child was completely composed and unafraid.' The minister could hardly believe his eyes.
It was not surprising therefore, that when the plane finally reached its destination and all the passengers were hurrying to disembark, our pastor lingered to speak to the girl whom he had watched for such a long time. Having commented about the storm and the behavior of the plane, he asked why she had not been afraid.
The child replied, 'Cause my Daddy's the pilot, and he's taking me home.'
There are many kinds of storms that buffet us. Physical, mental, financial, domestic, and many other storms can easily and quickly darken our skies and throw our plane into apparently uncontrollable movement. We have all known such times, and let us be honest and confess, it is much easier to be at rest when our feet are on the ground than when we are being tossed about a darkened sky.
Let us remember: Our Father is the Pilot.
He is in control and taking us home. Don't worry!
BIBLE VERSE Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; Psalm 23:4
PRAYER
Dear God, Thank you for taking care of me even in the storms of life. Amen
APHORISM: a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth; adage
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM . Like this: It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says "It's only a game." when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry In a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 50, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably Dead!!
20. Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don't mind. And The ones who mind, don't matter.
Trivia
1. True or False. Just before the Olympic Games, China executed three persons convicted of plotting to disrupt the games.
2. Which of the following political parties will not be represented on the November 4 presidential election ballot in Ohio? Only one answer.
Republican / Democrat / Independent / Libertarian / Socialist / Green / Constitutional
3. When football was first played (circa early 1880s), how many points were awarded for scoring a touchdown? 1 2 4 7 10
4. When William Henry Harrison died after being president for only a month, Vice President John Tyler became president. What was he doing when notified of the president’s death?
playing marbles, pruning roses, building a chapel behind his cabin
cleaning his chimney, in a tree picking apples
5. Adolph Hitler had a private train of fifteen cars. What did he name that train?
Mein Kampf Amerika Greta Jubilee Reich 3 Fuehrer 1
6. August was the month in 1858 of the famous debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the Illinois senate. How many times did the two men debate one another?
7. From a numerical standpoint, what is the largest religion in the world?
I don’t know much about the Olympics, but it seems to me if there is a javelin thrower, shouldn’t there also be a javelin catcher?
Exercise: the purpose of golf which is experienced when you move your clubs from the trunk of your car onto the golf cart.
Question. What would you have if you crossed a dog with a calculator. Answer. A friend you can count on.
I turned on the TV the other day and thought I had happened onto one of those crazy reality shows. But it was just the news.
Father. William, let me tell you a little about patience.
William. Dad, is it going to be long? Can you give me just the bullet points? Maybe a few short highlights? Better yet, if you text it to me, I could skim it much faster…..
Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.
I’m just curious: how many times around the block would I have to run to be a marathoner?
Is a recumbent incumbent a politician who won’t take a stand on the issues?
The best way to live in the world is to live above the world.
To ease another’s suffering, help carry it.
The promises of God are in the present tense. (Billy Sunday)
I text’d my friend Mooky. He didn‘t answer. Then I phoned him, emailed him, and faxed him - still no answer. Finally, I just went right next door and rang the bell.
I overheard my five year old daughter tell my three year old son, “When I was your age, gasoline was only $3 a gallon.”
I quickly found out that my new watchdog wasn’t going to work out. So I replaced the Beware of the Dog sign with Don’t Trip Over the Dog.
Hard work never killed anyone who supervises it.
There may be some confusion when a church preaches that the end is near and then wants its members to sign a three-year pledge for the construction of the new church building.
Trivia Answers
1. 1. True
2. Green
3. 4
4. Playing marbles
5. Amerika
6. 7
7. Islam (just recently surpassing the Roman Catholic Church which held the top spot for centuries)
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