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This is good?

June 29, 2009 in Uncategorized

 

A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home.

He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed:
“Dear Lord:

I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home.

I want her to know what I go through.

So, please allow her body to switch with mine for a day.

Amen!”

God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man’s wish.

The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman.

He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate,

Awakened the kids,
Set out their school clothes,

Fed them breakfast,


Packed their lunches,

Drove them to school,

Came home and picked up the dry cleaning,


Took it to the cleaners

And stopped at the bank to make a deposit,

Went grocery shopping,

Then drove home to put away the groceries,

Paid the bills and balanced the check book.


He cleaned the cat’s litter box and bathed the dog.

Then, it was already 01P.M
.

 

And he hurried to make the beds,
Do the laundry, vacuum,


Dust,

And sweep and mop the kitchen floor.

Ran to the school to pick up the kids and got into an argument with them on the way home.

Set out milk and cookies and got the kids organized to do their homework.

Then, set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing.

At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper.

After supper,
He cleaned the kitchen,

Ran the dishwasher,


Folded laundry,

Bathed the kids,

And put them to bed.


At 09 P.M .

He was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren’t finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make love, which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning, he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said: –
“Lord, I don’t know what I was thinking.


I was so wrong to envy my wife’s being able to stay home all day.


Please, oh! Oh! Please, let us trade back.


Amen!”

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied:

“My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were.

You’ll just have to wait nine months, though.
You got pregnant last night.”


Too beautiful not to share

June 27, 2009 in Uncategorized

 

SOMETIMES…

We must be hurt in order to grow,

We must fail in order to know,

We must lose in order to gain.

Some Lessons are learned best only through pain.


SOMETIMES…
Our vision clears only after our eyes are washed with tears.

We have to be broken, so we can be tender,

We are sick so we can rest and think better on things more important than work or fun,

We are taken for trip near death, so we can assess how we’ve run.


SOMETIMES…
We have to suffer lack, so we can know God’s provision,

We have to feel another’s pain, so we can have a sense of mission.
So take heart, if you don’t understand today,

Instead of grumbling, ask God what He means to say,

In order to learn you must endure, and learn to see the bigger picture.

In order to grow, you must stand and look beyond the hurt,

Trust in God’s loving hand that takes what is Good, and gives what is Best,

And on this blessed thought, rest your anxious heart with all the questions,

God’s hand only gives what his loving heart dictates,


SOMETIMES…
The Lord calms the storm,


SOMETIMES…

He lets the storm rage… and calms His child…

Better go through the storm with Him,

Than smooth waters without Him…

 

June 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

 

June 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when u fear God u fear nothing else,whereas if u do not fear God u fear everything else.

From:
Oswald Chambers.

Geez……

June 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

 

A PhD graduate and an ordinary man went on a camping trip, set up their tent and fell asleep.  Some hours later, the ordinary man woke up his PhD friend:  “Look up at the sky and tell me what you see?”

The PhD man replies:  “I see millions of stars.”  The ordinary man asks:  “What does that tell you?”

The PhD guy ponders for a minute: “Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.  Astrologically, it tells me that Satan is in Leo.  Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three.  Theologically, it’s evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.  Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.  What does it tell you?”

The ordinary man is silent for a moment, and then speaks:  “Practically . . . . . . . . it tells me that someone has stolen our tent” .

Be educated in the right way and not go beyond the boundaries!

June 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

 ‘When You’re Down to Nothing, God  is up to Something’

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    ‘Worry looks around, sorry looks back, Faith looks up.’

June 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

 Never take someone for granted
Hold every friend close to your heart
Because you might wake up one day
And realize that you’ve lost a diamond
While you were too busy collecting stones

‘I LOVE THE LORD!’

June 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

           
 

 

 
 Well, I told THE LORD that I love Him today. And He said to me, ‘How much do you love me? You haven’t told anyone how good I’ve been to you. You haven’t shared how perfect my love is. You haven’t spread the good news that I am always there to listen to your problems.

You haven’t told your family how I helped you pay your bills when you didn’t have a high paying job, or how I got you a better one. You haven’t shared with anyone how I took away that addiction that would have cost you not only your job, and everything that was just what you were looking for. So how much do you really love me?’

So, I said I would share with my friends and family (for starters) just how wonderful, perfect, understanding, patient, loving, unselfish, considerate and forgiving GOD really is. He has blessed me with a family that loves me and friends that I can confide in. But even more than that, He has saved me from destruction I couldn’t even see coming.

He gave to me the peace of knowing Him, and He has never broken a promise. Truly He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I stand in my stadium today to tell to you all, ‘I LOVE THE LORD!’ 

A Boy Singing to his little sister

June 19, 2009 in Uncategorized

 A Boy Singing to his little sister…..

You are My Sunshine, My only Sunshine’

(Be prepared to get watery eyes!)

Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the

way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare

for a new sibling.

They found out that the new baby was going be a girl, and day after day,

night after night, Michael sang to his sister in mommy’s tummy.

He was building a bond of love with his little sister before he even met

her.

The pregnancy progressed normally for Karen, an active member of the

Panther Creek United Methodist Church in Morristown , Tennessee

In time, the labor pains came. Soon it was every five minutes, every

three, every minute. But serious complications arose during delivery and

Karen found herself in hours of labor.

Would a C-section be required? Finally, after a long struggle, Michael’s

little sister was born. But she was in very serious condition.

With a siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushed the infant to

the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital, Knoxville ,

Tennessee The days inched by. The little girl got worse. The

pediatrician had to tell the parents there is very little hope. Be

prepared for the worst.

Karen and her husband contacted a local cemetery about a burial plot.

They had fixed up a special room in their house for their new baby but

now they found themselves having to plan for a funeral. Michael,

however, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister. I want to

sing to her, he kept saying.

Week two in intensive care looked as if a funeral would come before the

week was over.

Michael kept nagging about singing to his sister, but kids are never

allowed in Intensive Care. Kar en decided to take Michael whether they

liked it or not.

If he didn’t see his sister right then, he may never see her alive.

She dressed him in an oversized scrub suit and marched him into ICU.

He looked like a walking laundry basket.

The head nurse recognized him as a child and bellowed,

‘Get that kid out of here now. No children are allowed.’

The mother rose up strong in Karen,

and the usually mild-mannered lady glared steel-eyed right into

the head nurse’s face, her lips a firm line.

‘He is not leaving until he sings to his sister’ she stated.

Then Karen towed Michael to his sister’s bedside.

He gazed at the tiny infant losing the battle to live.

After a moment, he began to sing.

In the pure-hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang:

‘You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,

you make me happy when skies are gray.’

Instantly the baby girl seemed to respond.

The pulse rate began to calm down and become steady.

‘Keep on singing, Michael,’ encouraged Karen with tears in her eyes..

‘You never know, dear, how much I love you,

please don’t take my sunshine away.’

As Michael sang to his sister, the baby’s ragged,

strained breathing became as smooth as a kitten’s purr

‘Keep on singing, sweetheart.’

‘The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my

arms’ Michael’s little sister began to relax as rest,

healing rest, seemed to sweep over her.

‘Keep on singing, Michael.’

Tears had now conquered the face of the bossy head nurse.

Karen glowed.

‘You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

Please don’t take my sunshine away.’

The next day…the very next day.

the little girl was well enough to go home

Woman’s Day Magazine called it The Miracle of a Brother’s Song.

The medical staff just called it a miracle.

Karen called it a miracle of God’s love.

NEVER GIVE UP ON THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE.

LOVE IS SO INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.

Life is good.

Have a Wonderful Day!

In God We Trust!

‘The evidence of God’s presence far outweighs the proof of His absence.’

 

          
 

 

 
 

Always remember

June 19, 2009 in Uncategorized