"Christian Voices" (1-22-04)

July 12, 2010

HUMOR

I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over. .....Unknown

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. .....Rodney Dangerfield

Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. .....Spike Milligan

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP. .....Joe Namath

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. .....Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. .....W.C. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. .....Will Rogers

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. .....Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. .....Billy Crystal

....."ChapnotesMail@aol.com" (ChapnotesMail@aol.com) (http://www.chapnotes.org) (t.airportchaplain@verizon.net) by way of "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)

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THOUGHT PROVOKING – INSPIRATIONAL

In the Harold Morris video series, "Twice Pardoned," Harold tells about a car accident in which a teenage boy was killed. He and his friends had been drinking. When the police reached the home of the deceased boy and explained the details of his death, his father's immediate reaction was, "If I could find who sold those boys that alcohol, I'd kill him!"

The dad was so shaken up he went to his liquor cabinet for a drink and there found a note that read, "Dear Dad, I knew you wouldn't mind if we borrowed this bottle of liquor. We'll pay you back soon."

.....Provided by Student Discipleship Ministries via Laugh & Lift by way of "ChapnotesMail@aol.com" (ChapnotesMail@aol.com) (http://www.chapnotes.org) (t.airportchaplain@verizon.net) and "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)

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John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth,

your word is truth.(NIV)

It has been said that there are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened!

Former Australian swimmer, Shane Gould, who won three gold medals in the 1972 Olympics, was considered one of the greatest swimmers of all time. She didn't sit back and watch things happen. She made them happen.

Early in her career, when she was only 14 years of age, a news reporter asked her how she thought she would do in one of her early swim meets in the U.S. She replied, "I have a feeling there will be a world record today." There was!

Shane set a world record in the one-hundred-meter freestyle event and a second in the two-hundred. When asked how she thought she would do in the more punishing four-hundred-meter event she said, "I get stronger every race, and besides ... my parents said they'd take me to Disneyland if I win, and we're leaving tomorrow!"

She went to Disneyland with three world records! By the time she was sixteen she had five world records. It is true, she also had talent but she won not only because of this, but because of her preparation, hard work, and her positive self-expectancy.

Only a few are gifted sufficiently to be able to win a gold medal. However, every one of us is gifted in some area and most of us are gifted in several areas. And while we are not all called of God to be famous, we are all called to be faithful in serving him and our fellow man with the gifts that we have been given—not with those we haven't been given.

We can all be "gold medal winners" in God's book if we are: well trained in our area of gifting, are adequately prepared for the task we want and feel called to do, have faith in our cause, see and take advantage of every opportunity when it knocks, disallow our fears to control us, believe that with God's help we can achieve what we set out to do, and are prepared to work hard to make it happen.

....."The Daily Encourager" (dlangerfeld@HarrisburgBaptist.org) by way of "ChapnotesMail@aol.com" (ChapnotesMail@aol.com) (http://www.chapnotes.org) (t.airportchaplain@verizon.net) and "Christian Voices" (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)

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