May 24, 2010
HUMOR
AGE BY CAR RADIO
STUDENT: Every button is programmed to pop, rock, and rap - except the oldies station for your parents.
YOUNG PROFESSIONAL: Still programmed to rap, rock and pop; plus the station that gives the traffic reports. As you approach the 30s, you'll probably also add the talk station that everyone at work talks about.
ESTABLISHED PROFESSIONAL: Will use the Scan button and hear the first pop tune you learned as a kid on the oldies station.
APPROACHING MIDDLE AGE: Thank goodness for "adult" pop, rock and soul - will actually listen to the oldies for a few tunes.
TRULY MIDDLE AGE: It's not that you're old enough to listen to the oldies, it's just that they keep playing songs you know.
APPROACHING RETIREMENT: The radio is either on the oldies or off.
RETIRED: Stopped listening to the radio - that "oldies" station started playing all this "new music."
.....Mikey's Funnies (funnies-owner@lists.MikeysFunnies.com) by way of "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)
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THOUGHT PROVOKING – INSPIRATIONAL
YOUR GIFT IS WAITING
John 4:10 “Jesus replied, ‘If you only knew the gift God has for you
and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.’”
Someone told me once about his dog, a German shepherd, who he raised from a puppy. From the time he got the puppy, he barricaded the pup in the kitchen with a piece of plywood across the opening, and a broom placed diagonally against it held the wood in place. As the puppy got older, he stopped trying to get out of the kitchen, so the owner removed the plywood and just kept the broom diagonally across the opening at night. Even though the dog could have jumped over the broom or walked under it, he stayed in the kitchen whenever the broom was there. If only he knew he could get out…
This is what the woman at the well faced. If only she knew the gift God had for her, she could have salvation and freedom from the bondage in her life. But up until the day she met Jesus, she had lived in a constant state of being trapped in wrong living.
What traps do we live in? As Christians, we’ve had the barricade removed by the atonement of Jesus on the cross. We’re free, but too often we keep the broom in place and limit ourselves. We shut down the living water to just a trickle.
In a Bible study one time, the leader asked, “What would you do for God if you were guaranteed success?” It was a hard question to answer, and still is. The companion question for that, though, is, “Would you try for trifling things, or would you attempt great things for God?”
Great things, of course. With my love of photography and people in foreign places and missions, I might seek out missionaries in need of a photographer to document their work, but there’s that little thing of a broom across the opening…
What gift does God have waiting for you? What great things would He like to accomplish through you? What barriers have you kept between you and His gifts?
May the Lord help us to shove our fears aside and go forward in boldness toward the gifts He has prepared for us…and prepared us for.
.....Brenda McGill as seen in Bread by way of Cup O'Cheer (cheer316@sc.rr.com) (Cupocheer316@yahoo.com) and "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)
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CRAZY WEATHER
We have been having some crazy weather here in the mountains of my home this summer. The other day, for instance, started out beautifully with a sunrise that could make the heavens' sing. The air was warm and the breezes gently kissed your cheek as you walked outside. The shining sun filtered through the leaves and lit up the world in a thousand different places. Just being outside lit up my own soul as well and I thanked God for another great day to be alive.
By afternoon, however, the weather had turned hot and muggy. The skies had become partly cloudy and the distant roar of thunder was in the air. As I went to run an errand it started to rain. Driving down the road I could still see the sun behind me but thick, grey clouds lay ahead. After only a few miles a gentle sprinkling of rain became a torrent that rolled down the roads and turned every pothole into a puddle. I stopped to go into a store but was drenched before I got three feet. Lightning flashes could be seen over the hills and I wondered if the storm would ever end. As I drove back home, though, the clouds parted and the sunshine reappeared. I arrived home soaked but safe and looked up to see the most glorious rainbow bridging the sky. I stopped in my dripping clothes to take in the sight and store it safely in the memories of my soul.
Life too can give us some crazy weather at times. Clear days can suddenly turn stormy in an instant. Sunny skies and gentle breezes can give way to pounding rains and lightening for no reason. Problems, troubles, and frustrations can soak you to the skin and you can find yourself wondering if the storm will ever end. When this happens take heart in knowing that God loves you through every type of weather and that you have enough sunlight in your soul to ride out any storm that life throws at you. Let that rain help you to grow and remember that the storms always end, the clouds always part, and sometimes you even get blessed with a rainbow.
.....Joseph J. Mazzella (joemazzella@frontier.com) by way of "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)
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