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    Good advice. Hope you are doing well.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
    Joshua 1:8 NIV
     
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    “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding.” Pray for our leaders to recognize the need for divine wisdom.
    -Psalm 111:10
    Psalm 111:10 - if714
     
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    Are black holes are where God divided by zero?

    All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.

    I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

    The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

    How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?

    If everything seems to be going well, you no doubt have forgotten something.

    Support bacteria; they are the only culture some people have.
     
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    The confessions of a man

    I have a confession. It’s hard to be a man. I’m sure it’s hard to be a woman too, but I can’t speak to it. Maybe one of my female colleagues could cover that topic. I’m just glad I never had to give birth. Most of the things God says about men and women in the Bible apply to both no matter which one he is addressing. And when God gets pointed with men, he is often tailoring a message toward our weaknesses. Fathers are more likely than mothers to exasperate their children because they are men. And it’s hard to be a man.

    The script for manliness is bent toward brutishness because men wrote it. We get a pass for being crude and smelly that women don’t get. We would like to think we are bigger, faster, stronger, but most ladies I know are tougher than I am. They would never start a fight or a war nor believe they have a mandate to finish it. Men have a history of thinking it is the order of the universe that we should dominate everything. And we can struggle to be cooperative when we don’t.

    And then there is the God-man, Jesus Christ. Men have profaned his name too often and failed to seek real manhood in him. Religion is for women and children, right? Not at all.

    I have grown to admire the men who have patterned their lives after Jesus.
     
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    And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
    Ephesians 6:4 NKJV
     
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    Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
    I Corinthians 11:1 NKJV
     
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    When everything is coming your way, make sure you are in the right lane.

    I once knew a fellow who thought that ambition was a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

    Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.

    Too many people quit looking for work once they have found a job.

    Two wrongs are only the beginning.

    The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word “how?” we owe most of our great discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: How? And Why?
     
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    Verse of the Day
    From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
    Psalm 113:3
     
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    How appropriate a verse for this time of the morning!:)
     
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    Yes sir, sure is.
     
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    Have you ever wondered why?

    Why does the sun lighten our hair but darken our skin?
    Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
    Why is a boxing ring square?
    Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
    Why isn’t there a special name for the top of your feet?

    A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far more valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

    How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand and to insult what we envy.

    Be glad of life! Because it gives you the chance to love and work, to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke

    It is best to rise from life as from the banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle
     
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    Verse of the Day
    “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
    Ephesians 4:26 NIV
     
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    The feelings of a father

    America was a mere 50 years old when Andrew Jackson was president. The country was frontier, and the unitedness of the states was a work in progress. There were pockets of resistance to the idea of a federal system, and slavery and taxes were divisive issues. South Carolina was a proxy for what a confederacy of southern states would do later. It declared the authority of Washington D.C. null and void. But Andrew Jackson felt about his young country the way he felt about his family. It was his responsibility to hold it together. He threatened military action to preserve the United States. He sent a declaration to the people of South Carolina explaining what he was prepared to do. He said he was writing to them “with the feelings of a father.”

    Inescapable responsibility is the feeling of a father. Fathers know the buck stops with them. There is no holiday from their duty to be their children’s providers and protectors. Jesus referred to fathers as proxies for God: “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:9–11). We can depend on God because he cares for us with the feelings of a father.
     
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    Um... I think perhaps it was a tad over 50 years ago! But good thoughts anyway.
     
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    Pray is a four-letter work that you can say anywhere except in schools and universities.

    May the sun shine warm on your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. Irish proverb.

    Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. Sam Snead

    The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

    One of life’s hardest decisions is deciding which line to get into.

    Character: Something that a person gets by doing many acts but can lose with just one bad one.
     
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    Yep, that's what it's says. It was a mere 50 yrs old.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
    Proverbs 1:7 NIV
     
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    The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

    Deep within each of us is someone striving to do absolutely nothing.

    A truck should never be parked on a steep hill. It might leave if it is so inclined.

    Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

    The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty

    Looks like our national flower is now the concrete cloverleaf.

    Change in inevitable, except maybe from a vending machine or pay telephone.
     
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