"What if, today we were grateful for everything?"
- Charlie Brown
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"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction."
- H.A. Ironside
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A mathematics teacher came into the faculty room after she'd been watching a basketball game. Her face was glowing.
"I've got the greatest idea for teaching!" she exclaimed.
"What do you mean? What's the idea?" asked a couple of colleagues.
"Well, you know how hard it is for us to really teach fractions? The kids just don't seem to be motivated to learn them."
"Yes, it's true," said a fellow math teacher. "So?"
"Well, the solution is to change the system of scoring in basketball. A free-throw, 2 2/3 point; a basket, 3 1/7, and a foul, 7/8 points!"
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"Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiety, which, in turn, is the root of so many other sins."
- John Piper, Solid Joys Daily Devotionals
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A man was stopped by a game warden in Northern Minnesota recently with two buckets of fish leaving a lake well known for its fishing.
The game warden asked the man, "Do you have a license to catch those fish?"
The man replied, "No, sir. These are my pet fish."
"Pet fish?!" the warden replied.
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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