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mood:
uns like these just cannot
permit us to stay in a bad
Growing old is inevitable; growing
UP is optional.
4) There is no key to happiness; the
1) How do you catch a unique door is always open. 5) Silence is
rabbit? Unique up on it. 2) How often misinterpreted, but never
do you catch a tame rabbit? Tame misquoted. 6) You do the math:
way, unique up on it. 3) How do Count your blessings. 7) Faith is
you get holy water? You boil the the ability not to panic. 8) Laugh
hell out of it. 4) What do Eskimos every day; it’s like inner jogging. 9)
get from sitting on the ice too long? If you worry, don’t pray; if you
Polaroids. 5) What do you call a pray, don’t worry. 10) As a child
boomerang that doesn’t work? A of God, prayer is kind of like calling
stick. 6) What do you call Santa’s home every day. 11) Blessed are
helpers? Subordinate Clauses. 7) the flexible, for they shall not be
What do you get from a pampered bent out of shape.
cow? Spoiled milk. 8) What do 12) The most important things in
you get when you cross a snowman your home are the people. 13)
with a vampire? Frostbite. 9) When we get tangled up in our
What lies at the bottom of the ocean problems, be still; God wants us to
and twitches? A nervous wreck. be still do He can untangle the knot.
10) (Oh, groan!) What’s the 14) A grudge is a heavy thing to
difference between roast beef and carry.
pea soup? Anyone can roast beef. 15) He who dies with the most toys
11) Why do gorillas have big is still dead. 16) We do not
nostrils? Because they have big remember days, but moments. Life
fingers. 12) Why did the pilgrims’ is moving too fast, so enjoy your
pants always fall down? Because precious moments. 17) Nothing is
they wore their belt buckle real to you until you experience it;
on their hats. 13) What’s otherwise it’s just hearsay. 18) It’s
the difference between a all right to sit on your pity pot every
bad golfer and a bad now and again; just be sure to flush
skydiver? A bad golfer goes when you are done.
“Whack, dang!” A bad skydiver 19) Surviving and living your life
goes “Dang! Whack.” 14) How are requires courage. The goals and
a Texas tornado and a Tennessee dreams you’re seeking require
divorce the same? Somebody’s courage and risk taking. Learn
going to lose a trailer. from the turtle: It only
makes progress when it
20 RULES OF WISDOM sticks out its neck. 20)
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replied ‘Don’t eat
he following came from Daniel
the forbidden fruit,’ God
said. ‘Forbidden Norr, the precious Christian
fruit? We have man with terminal cancer: “A little
forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve, we have girl had been shopping with her
forbidden fruit!’ ‘No way!’ ‘Yes, way!’ Mom in WalMart. It was pouring
‘Do NOT eat the fruit,’ God said. ‘Why?’ outside – the kind of rain that
‘Because I am your Father and I said so!’
gushes over the top of rain gutters,
God replied, wondering why He hadn’t
stopped creation after making the so much in a hurry to hit the earth
elephants. A few minutes later, God saw it has not time to flow down the
His children having a fruit break, and He spout. Many
was ticked! ‘Didn’t I tell you not to eat shoppers stood
the fruit?’ God asked. ‘Uh, huh,’ Adam there under the
replied. ‘Then why did you?’ said the
awning and just
Father. ‘I don’t know,’ said Eve. ‘She
started it!’ Adam said. ‘Did not!’ ‘Did inside the door.
too!’ ‘Did not!’…..So, let’s not be too The little girl
hard on ourselves; if God had (and has) spoke in a loud
trouble, what makes us think it is a piece voice, “Mom, let’s run through the
of cake for us? Some things to think rain.” “No, honey, we’ll wait until
about: 1) We spend the first two years
it slows down a bit.” After about a
of their life teaching them to walk and
talk; then we spend the next sixteen minute: “Mom, let’s run through
telling them to sit down and be quiet. the rain.” “We’ll get soaked if we
2) Grandchildren are God’s reward do,” Mom said. “No, we won’t,
for us not killing our own children. Mom; that’s not what you said this
3) Parents of teens know why some morning.” “This morning? When
animals eat their young. 4) Children
did I say we could run through the
seldom misquote us. In fact, they usually
rain and not get wet?” “Don’t you their families will come from…
remember? When you were talking Please pray for people in need, ask
to Daddy about his cancer, you said, the Lord where and how we can
‘If God can get us through this, He help in addition to praying, pray for
can get us through anything.” The agencies and churches and other
entire crowd became silent. Mom organizations whose mission is to
paused and thought for a moment; reach out to hurting individuals and
this was a moment of affirmation in families.
a young child’s life, a time when
innocent trust can be nurtured to CLOSING THOUGHTS
that it will bloom into faith. “Love nourishes, comforts,
“Honey, you’re absolutely right! strengthens, sustains. Love creates
Let’s run through the rain. If God invisible lines of connection. Love
lets us get wet, well, maybe we just begets miracles.”…“How far can an
need washing.” Off they went; and act of kindness spread? From this
they got soaked. Then others began end of the earth to the other and
running through the rain also, back to our very own front
laughing as they went, knowing that door.”…“All is a miracle. The
they, too, needed washing. stupendous order of nature, the
revolution of hundred of millions of
worlds around a hundred million of
stars, the activity of light, the life of
all animals, all are grand and
perpetual
miracles.”…”Appreciation of life
itself, becoming suddenly aware of
PRAYER MOBILIZATION the miracle of being alive, on this