July 12
"You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." -- Lydia M. Child
"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask." -- Billy Graham
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -- Jim Rohn
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -- Helen Keller
The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure . . .
Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve-to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain. Leonard Sweet
Question: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 117.
Question: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 119.
Question: What chapter is in the center of the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 118.
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalm 118.
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalm 118.
Ad these numbers together and you get 1188. And what is the center verse in the Bible?
Answer 118:8.
The next time someone says they would like to find God's perfect will for their life, and that they want to be in the center of God's will, just send them to the center of His Word--the Bible.
"It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man" (Psalm 118:8).
A garden center customer picks up a container of insecticide and asks the salesperson, "Is this good for red ants?"
"No," says the salesperson. "It'll kill 'em!"
“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.” -- J. Kenfield Morley
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." -- Helen Keller
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. William Lyon Phelps
Time
From birth to age 12 seemed like it took 20 years.
From 12 until age 16 felt like 15 years to me.
From 16 to age 21 was another 10 years.
From age 21 to age 30 was a tough 15 years.
From 30 to the age of 50 seemed like it only took
about 8 years.
From 50 until age 60 was very strange--I went to
bed one night at 50 and woke up 60!
After age 60 you get up in the morning, grab
something to eat, and presto it's midnight.
Value every year, every day, every hour and even every minute. Don't spend a lot of time looking forward to some 'certain event'; it will surely come soon enough. Spend your time and thoughts in the wonder and the miracle of "today". Grab hold of this day with passion, desire, love, and with a positive outlook. Life is a wonderful adventure. I sure wish I had found that out at the beginning of this journey.
Not Knowing What Is Going to Happen Next Re Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Etc.
By Michael Josephson of Character Counts 625.2)
No matter how much we fear it, try to escape it, or ignore it, death comes to everyone. Wealth, fame, even wisdom and virtue provide no sanctuary.
It comes at its own time and place without regard for our readiness or its impact on survivors.
This week brought news of three deaths, each momentous in its own way as each life had its own unique path forged by circumstances and choices.
Ed McMahon, announcer, pitchman, and sidekick of Johnny Carson, died at 86. A former Marine Corps fighter pilot, his jovial nature attracted a large posse of friends and admirers and helped him achieve a hugely successful career and millions in earnings. None of these things, however, guaranteed happiness or security as his last years were spent in debt, ill health, and contentious litigation.
Farrah Fawcett, an iconic beauty known for her glamorous pin-up pictures and for being one of Charlie's Angels, died at 62 after a hard, long public battle with cancer. She died with her companion for 27 years, actor Ryan O'Neal, at her side, struggling with all her might to enjoy her relationships a little longer.
These obituaries were eclipsed by the sudden death of 50-year-old "King of Pop" Michael Jackson. The one-gloved, red-jacketed, surgically altered, moon-walking singer/dancer was, for more than a decade, the brightest star in celebrity heaven. Once able to buy anything he wanted including a private zoo and the bones of The Elephant Man, Jackson also died in debt and in emotional prison--never able to overcome a host of personal demons.
Gilda Radner, another celebrity who died early, said: "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing...taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
"Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there."
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind."
"No matter what happens in your life, know that God is waiting with open arms."
"The law of any church is, and always will be, evangelize or fossilize."
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in ... make sure you are willing to unload it.
7. You will never "have it all together."
8. Life is a journey ... not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11. I've learned that ultimately, 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
15. He or she who laughs ... lasts.
16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
17. Look for opportunities ... not guarantees.
18. Life is what's coming ... not what was.
19. Success is getting up one more time.
20. Now is the most interesting time of all.
21. When things go wrong ... don't go with them.
"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask." -- Billy Graham
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -- Jim Rohn
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -- Helen Keller
The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure . . .
Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve-to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain. Leonard Sweet
Question: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 117.
Question: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 119.
Question: What chapter is in the center of the Bible?
Answer: Psalm 118.
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalm 118.
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalm 118.
Ad these numbers together and you get 1188. And what is the center verse in the Bible?
Answer 118:8.
The next time someone says they would like to find God's perfect will for their life, and that they want to be in the center of God's will, just send them to the center of His Word--the Bible.
"It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man" (Psalm 118:8).
A garden center customer picks up a container of insecticide and asks the salesperson, "Is this good for red ants?"
"No," says the salesperson. "It'll kill 'em!"
“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.” -- J. Kenfield Morley
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." -- Helen Keller
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. William Lyon Phelps
Time
From birth to age 12 seemed like it took 20 years.
From 12 until age 16 felt like 15 years to me.
From 16 to age 21 was another 10 years.
From age 21 to age 30 was a tough 15 years.
From 30 to the age of 50 seemed like it only took
about 8 years.
From 50 until age 60 was very strange--I went to
bed one night at 50 and woke up 60!
After age 60 you get up in the morning, grab
something to eat, and presto it's midnight.
Value every year, every day, every hour and even every minute. Don't spend a lot of time looking forward to some 'certain event'; it will surely come soon enough. Spend your time and thoughts in the wonder and the miracle of "today". Grab hold of this day with passion, desire, love, and with a positive outlook. Life is a wonderful adventure. I sure wish I had found that out at the beginning of this journey.
Not Knowing What Is Going to Happen Next Re Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Etc.
By Michael Josephson of Character Counts 625.2)
No matter how much we fear it, try to escape it, or ignore it, death comes to everyone. Wealth, fame, even wisdom and virtue provide no sanctuary.
It comes at its own time and place without regard for our readiness or its impact on survivors.
This week brought news of three deaths, each momentous in its own way as each life had its own unique path forged by circumstances and choices.
Ed McMahon, announcer, pitchman, and sidekick of Johnny Carson, died at 86. A former Marine Corps fighter pilot, his jovial nature attracted a large posse of friends and admirers and helped him achieve a hugely successful career and millions in earnings. None of these things, however, guaranteed happiness or security as his last years were spent in debt, ill health, and contentious litigation.
Farrah Fawcett, an iconic beauty known for her glamorous pin-up pictures and for being one of Charlie's Angels, died at 62 after a hard, long public battle with cancer. She died with her companion for 27 years, actor Ryan O'Neal, at her side, struggling with all her might to enjoy her relationships a little longer.
These obituaries were eclipsed by the sudden death of 50-year-old "King of Pop" Michael Jackson. The one-gloved, red-jacketed, surgically altered, moon-walking singer/dancer was, for more than a decade, the brightest star in celebrity heaven. Once able to buy anything he wanted including a private zoo and the bones of The Elephant Man, Jackson also died in debt and in emotional prison--never able to overcome a host of personal demons.
Gilda Radner, another celebrity who died early, said: "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing...taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
"Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there."
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind."
"No matter what happens in your life, know that God is waiting with open arms."
"The law of any church is, and always will be, evangelize or fossilize."
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in ... make sure you are willing to unload it.
7. You will never "have it all together."
8. Life is a journey ... not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11. I've learned that ultimately, 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
15. He or she who laughs ... lasts.
16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
17. Look for opportunities ... not guarantees.
18. Life is what's coming ... not what was.
19. Success is getting up one more time.
20. Now is the most interesting time of all.
21. When things go wrong ... don't go with them.
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