My uncle used to say if he couldn’t take it with him he didn’t want to go. The reality is we all are going to die and we can’t take anything with us. Therefore, we have to use it before we die to do anyone any good. Everything in life has an expiration date. Just like the date manufacturers put on all the goods they sell that tells the last date it is safe for us that we should use their product. There is no guarantee for us to use it after that certain date. Similarly, there is a limited time for us to be able to do what we intend to do. So we must get busy to get done the items on our mission statement, and our to do list and our bucket lists. I had a bad heart attack in July, 2012. They said I cheated death and that I was at Death’s door! I was in the hospital for about seven days and four of those I spent in the Critical Care Unit or CCU. You had better believe that I reviewed my life and all the things I should’ve and could’ve done.
I knew that even though I might have cheated Death that Death would be back for me again one day. Having this knowledge, I found it inexcusable that I wouldn’t be ready next time. So that’s what I’m doing at this moment trying to mark off some items. on my bucket list. No one else can do that for you. The responsibility lies in you and in you alone!
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If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
8/23– Can You Spare A Minute ?
4/5–8/18
One morning, an elderly man was walking along the beach when he noticed a young boy picking something off the sand and throwing it into the sea.
As he got closer, the man realized the child was throwing stranded starfishes that had washed up on the shore back into the breaking waves.
Approaching the boy, the man asked what he was doing.
The starfish will die if they’re still on the shore when the sun rises,” he replied.
Perplexed, the old man said, “But that’s pointless! There are countless miles of beach and thousands of starfish. It doesn’t matter how many you return to the water, you can’t make a difference.”
Unfazed, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and tossed it into the sea.
It matters to this one,” he said
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Your life is shaped by the doors you walk through and those you walk past.
Story:
Are you a help today or are you one that hinders? You will either do one or the other to your Church, friends, and family. I hear people say all the time I’m not a help but I’m not a hindrance. Oh, yes you are! If you are not a help then you are a hindrance!
You cannot ride the fence you will fall off on one side or the other. You will fall to the help side or to the side that hinders.
I made the statement once that I wanted to leave the walks of this life the day I started hindering. As soon as I could, I told them I wanted to make a correction to that statement. I told them that I did not want to leave the day I started hindering but instead I wanted to leave the day before.
There are too many things that a person can do to help others that there should be no reason to ever think about hindering someone else.
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But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Humor:
A couple were dining out together celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.
After the meal, the husband presented his wife romantically with a beautiful very old gold antique locket on a chain.
Amazingly when his wife opened the locket, a tiny fairy appeared.
Addressing the astonished couple, the fairy said, “Your forty years of devotion to each other has released me from this locket, and in return I can now grant you both one wish each – anything you want..”
Without hesitating, the wife asked, “Please, can I travel to the four corners of the world with my husband, as happy and in love as we’ve always been?”
The fairy waved her wand with a flourish, and magically there on the table were two first-class tickets for a round-the-world holiday.
Staggered, the couple looked at each other, unable to believe their luck.
“Your turn,” said the fairy and the wife to the husband.
The husband thought for a few seconds, and then said, with a little guilt in his voice, “Forgive me, but to really enjoy that holiday of a lifetime – I yearn for a younger woman – so I wish that my wife could be thirty years younger than me.”
Shocked, the fairy glanced at the wife, and with a knowing look in her eye, waved her wand…..
During World War I a Protestant chaplain with the American troops in Italy became a friend of a local Roman Catholic priest. In time, the chaplain who moved on with his unit was killed.
The priest heard of his death and asked military authorities if the chaplain could be buried in the cemetery behind his church.
Permission was granted. But the priest ran into a problem with his own Catholic Church authorities. They were sympathetic, but they said they could not approve the burial of a non-Catholic in a Catholic cemetery. So the priest buried his friend just outside the cemetery fence.
Years later, a war veteran who knew what had happened returned to Italy and visited the old priest. The first thing he did was ask to see the chaplain’s grave. To his surprise, he found the grave inside the fence. “Ah,” he said, “I see you got permission to move the body.” “No,” said the priest. “They told me where I couldn’t bury the body. But nobody ever told me I couldn’t move the fence.”
Bits & Pieces, November, 1989, p. 24.
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If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
8/22– Can You Spare A Minute?
8/22
Have you ever thought about having a personal, inner thermostat or regulator? If something goes wrong you know your thermostat, God will bring everything back in line.
It is like a checking account where you put in deposits and withdrawals. If you put a deposit amount that was actually a deduction you won’t balance or reconcile. If the Lord chastens you and you put on the withdrawal side you won’t balance or reconcile.
You must learn where to put things and make sure they are in perspective. It is like a wagon wheel it might be down at the moment but will roll right back up, if you will give it time.
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Excerpt from “Live First, Die Last” by J D Canter:
So, you’re having a rough day— Who and what are you comparing it to? You woke up this morning, millions didn’t.
Did you sleep in a car last night, millions were homeless. Did you have more good health than sickness?, so many don’t. Do you have a bank account, food in a cabinet or refrigerator?
What to do when you are feeling sorry for yourself… Go to the hospital, nursing home, funeral home, junenile detention home (while there be glad your loved ones aren’t there). Go visit some old folks and just listen, they don’t need you to say anything. Have you still got your right mind? I know several folks who don’t. They were once smart, maybe smarter than you and me.
Pity Parties…Has anyone ever attended any you have had. If they did I’m sure they didn’t stay long. If you have success with feeling sorry for yourself, go for it…as for me, count me out. Even Job in the Bible, with all his troubles, was required to stand on his feet like a man.
Try to make someone else happy and to feel important–There is not any way to make someone else happy and not get some of it for yourself.
The day you learn to get your mind off yourself long enough to think of others, is the day your life will take on a different meaning. A life of serving others makes a very rich, fulfilling life.
Be Positive—When you get negativity out of your life, take notice how others react to you.
You’ll see a great difference! You will never want to go back to the old way.
Play more offense and less defense…Michael Jordan remarked that too many players at the end of the game were concentrating on not losing, rather than on winning. Some are thinking so heavily on reacting, that they are not nearly proactive as they need to be. Instead of waiting on someone else to initiate the mood (your mood), try setting the tone to the one you want. You have a choice, don’t let anyone or anything take that from you.
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Pray daily, God is easier to talk to than most people
Story:
The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet.
Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall.
Faith is the ability to trust what we cannot see, and with faith we are freed from the flimsy enclosures of life that fear allows to entrap us.
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The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet.
Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall.
Faith is the ability to trust what we cannot see, and with faith we are freed from the flimsy enclosures of life that fear allows to entrap us.
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