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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!
I cannot tell a lie, the cherry tree is almost totally picked. Grandma Cybersalt is OK if birds pick the little bit that is remaining, so we have removed the protective nets.
If you find washing dishes stresses you out, today's video share shows something to try instead that will help calm you!
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Enjoy the rest of today's digest!
~ Pastor Tim
Sore Mover
Co-workers sympathized as my mother complained that her back was really sore from moving furniture.
"Why don't you wait till your husband gets home?" someone asked.
"I could," my mother told the group," but the couch is easier to move if he's not on it."
One-Liner #1936
My boss said I intimidate my coworkers; so I stared at him until he apologized.
The Fashionable Truth
What's the difference between a poorly dressed man on a tricycle and a well-dressed man on a bicycle?
Attire.
Quote #2372
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.
- Dwight L. Moody
Fixing Bicycles
One of my favorite stories is about a little girl who was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent's demand to know where she had been.
The little girl replied that she had stopped to help Janie, whose bicycle was broken in a fall.
"But you don't know anything about fixing bicycles," her mother responded.
"I know that," the girl said. "I just stopped to help her cry."
Not many of us know anything about fixing bicycles, either. And when our friends have fallen and broken, not their bicycles but their lives, NONE of us knows how to fix that. We simply cannot "fix" someone else's life, even though that's what we would like most to do.
But like the little girl, we can stop to help them cry. That is the best we can do. And that is a lot!
- Murray Lancaster
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Finishing Well
- photo by Susan PageA title can make or break a book! Finishing Well: It happens by choice, not by chance, is an insightful book by Rev. John Garner. I love the title, and it’s a great read. I came across another book called The Final Lap by John Wyatt. I haven’t read this book yet, and while it may be good, the title is not nearly as appealing. I’m not ready to say I’m on the final lap, although ultimately, my days are in God’s hands.
The expression “I’m retired” has lost its appeal for me, mostly because it’s associated with aging. I’m aware of the passing of time, but I don’t necessarily want to focus on it. So, what does retirement mean? Does it mean we are tired, and then we are re-tired? Is it time to put our name on the waiting list for the nursing home? (I’m speaking tongue-in-cheek, of course). People celebrate stepping back from full-time work and often use the term retirement, but I prefer to say that after 50 years in the workforce, I finally graduated. What does this graduation signify, and what will be next… before that final lap?
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There was a woman who spent some months serving God in Kenya. On her final visit to a remote township she attended a medical clinic. As the Maasai women there began to sing together, she found herself deeply moved by their hauntingly beautiful harmonies.
One way to find out if you're old is to fall down in front of a group of people. I they laugh, you're young; if they panic, you're old.
Did you hear about the sensitive burglar?
A group of frogs were hopping contentedly through the woods, going about their froggy business, when two of them fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit to see what could be done to help their companions.
I will confess that I am crazy, but I didn’t get there by myself. Somebody has been driving me crazy. When I use the word “somebody,” I mean a lot of people.
Take One
At my funeral, I would like there to be a piñata so people can be happy ... but filled with bees so they're not too happy.
To the person who stole my camouflage jacket and my flip-flops ... you can hide, but you can't run!
"In our eagerness to make converts, we are under constant temptation to hide from our hearers the fact that the Christian life is not a pleasurable religious game, but a life of repentance, self-crucifixion, humiliation, and rejection."
Some people try to punish themselves for their sins. They do not stand on the promises of forgiveness and Christ's propitiation.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints generally known as squawks or problems submitted recently by real pilots to maintenance engineers. After attending to the squawks prior to the aircraft's next flight, the maintenance crews are required to log the details of action taken as a solution to the pilots squawks. The following are some recent squawks and subsequent responses by maintenance crews.
Funny thing about marriage is I would 100%, without a doubt, take bullet for my wife; but I can also say, 100%without a doubt, she'd be the reason we were getting shot at in the first place.
I told my daughter to go to bed because the cows were already sleeping in the field.
Five lies of identity:
When my son was 11 years old, he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival while it was in our town.
Did you ever have a morning when everything went exactly as you planned? Well, neither have I.
Log on: making a wood stove hotter
Sometimes I use big words I don't understand to make myself look more photosynthesis.
I work as a banker. Last Friday, this older woman came to my counter and asked me to check her balance for her ...
You can forgive some people without welcoming them back into your life.
During a tour at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a New York City woman mentioned that she was raising a type of cactus in a pot on her apartment balcony.