Philippinas 4:6-7

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thangsgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peach of God, which transceds all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Jesus Christ


"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
Corrie Ten Boom

"It's amazing what can be accomplished when you
don't care who gets the credit." ~Ronald Reagan~

2 Corinthians 4:7-10

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE

Here's my thought for the day...

Don't shop at Neiman Marcus, ever...it just makes you depressed.

There was a $2400.00 price tag on the ugliest straw pocketbook I ever saw. The sad thing is people will pay that much for it, so it makes it ok to charge such ridiculously outrageous prices...

So wasteful...

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country......Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. .....In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Annual Message to Congress, Concluding Remarks, Washington, DC
Abraham Lincoln
December 1, 1862

Today was my sister Judith's 33rd birthday.

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I will be watching the "Batchelor; Paris" for the next 3 months starting tonight - Melanie calls it a date

Happy Belated Birthday to Judith!

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"He who is most slow
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A cute little story with a moral.

A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.
One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that she's lost. Wandering about, she notices a leopard heading rapidly in her direction with the intention of having lunch. The old poodle thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by, she immediately settles down to chew on the bones with her back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the old poodle exclaims loudly "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more
around here." Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks a way into the trees. "Whew!", says the leopard, "That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!" Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and
strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.
The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that
conniving canine!" Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his
back and thinks , "What am I going to do now?", but instead of running, the dog sits down with her back to her attackers, pretending she hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says:
"Where's that monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!"

she said "deep doo-doo"

Betta then being in deep doo doo fo sure...

God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost isn’t a consulting firm we bring in to give us expert advice on how to run our lives. The gospel life isn’t something we learn about and then put together with instructions from the manufacturer; it’s something we become as God does his work of creation and salvation in us and as we accustom ourselves to a life of belief and obedience and prayer.

— Eugene H. Peterson
Leap Over a Wall

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I would spend 6 hours sharpening an axe."

Abraham Lincoln

if i had eight hours to chop down a tree, i would chop it down in ten minutes and then rest the remaining 7 hours, 50 minutes.

jennifer clark

Abe didn't have a chainsaw to work with.

apparently

There was a huge tree in my backyard that I spent *many* hours chopping on with an axe. The axe probably could have used some sharpening, but I used the time for stress relief - I'd chop for maybe 30 minutes a couple times a week until my hands hurt too much.

Even when I got a chainsaw after it after the hurricane, it took a good while to get it down.

i have the exact axe george washington cut the famaous cherry tree with. yes, over the years we had to replace the handle, and at one point we had to put a new blade on it....but it is the exact same one.....

"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

"The principle of free thought is not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate." - US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in United States v. Schwimmer (1929)

THE BEND OF HISTORY:

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"President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead of focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, or reducing the threat of terror to the United States, Mr. Bush talked about establishing a 'free and peaceful Iraq' that would serve as a 'dramatic and inspiring example' to the entire Arab and Muslim world, provide a stabilizing influence in the Middle East and even help end the Arab-Israeli conflict."--editorial, New York Times, Feb. 27, 2003
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"One prominent neoconservative, Francis Fukuyama, asserts in a new book that the administration embraced democracy as a cornerstone of its policy only after the failure to find unconventional weapons in Iraq. The issue was seized upon to justify the war in retrospect, and then expanded for other countries, he says."--New York Times, March 17, 2006
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