Posted on 06/30/2008 10:26:42 PM PDT by JustAmy
Thank you to Dear Meg, Dear Tajgirvan, and Dear Jaycee for your Compliments on my Lord's Day Post, and Meg, your #965 is Lovely.
Goodnight to Amy's Place, and our Lord Grant us All a Peaceful and Restful Night.
I second that! They are so cute.
When my son Steve left home in the summer of 2006 to join the US Navy, he knew the gravity of his decision. He understood that once he walked onto that naval base for boot camp, he was giving up everything a teenager lives for. He was leaving behind his freedom, his guitars, his music, and his girlfriend. He surrendered the right to make his own choices and to do what he wanted to do. He said, in effect, “I am making myself a living sacrifice. I no longer do things for me; I do them for the service of my country.”
The sacrifice Steve and thousands of others make when they enter the military service reminds me of what the apostle Paul taught in Romans 12:1. In that passage, he urged us “to present [our] bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” This means we are to give up our selfish ways and surrender ourselves completely to God. We are to seek to be “holy” in all we do—to have a godly character (1 Peter 1:16), which is acceptable to God.
It wasn’t easy for Steve, who cherished self-determination, to give it all up for the Navy. But he did it. And it isn’t easy for us to completely surrender our will to God. How can you and I be a living sacrifice for God today?
ALL PUNS INTENDED
1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The
ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.
2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘I’ll serve
you, but don’t start anything.’
3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.
4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and
says: ‘A beer please, and one for the road.’
6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: ‘Does this taste funny to you?’
7. ‘Doc, I can’t stop singing ‘The Green, Green Grass of Home.’
‘That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome.’ ‘Is it common?’ Well,
‘It’s Not Unusual.’
8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to
Dolly, ‘I was artificially inseminated this morning.’ ‘I
do n’t believe you,’ says Dolly. ‘It’s true; no bull!’ exclaims Daisy.
9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.
10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.
11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn’t find any.
12. A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, ‘Doctor, doctor, I can’t feel my legs!’ The doctor replied,
‘I know you can’t - I’ve cut off your arms!’
13. I went to a seafood disco last week...and pulled a mussel.
14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, ‘Dam!’
16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in
the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t
have your kayak and heat it too.
17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing i n the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse.
‘But why,’ they asked, as they moved off. ‘Because,’
he said, ‘I can’t stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.’
18. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt , and is named ‘Ahmal.’ The other goes to a
family in Spain ; they name him ‘Juan.’ Years later, Juan sends a
picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, ‘They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Ahmal.’
19. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him. (Oh, man, this is so bad, it’s good)
... . . A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
20. And finally, there was the person who sent twenty different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least ten of the puns would make them laugh.
No pun in ten did.
(Note: sounds like a little of vaudeville, huh?)
Beautiful, Meg.
Tho I’m a day late .... thank you for this Lord’s Day graphic and message.
Good morning, Kitty Mittens.
Though I’m late again, I want to thank you for the compliment on yesterday’s Welcome Graphic.
I love your Kings Ranch graphic; the butterfly makes it more special. Thank you for sharing it.
Also, thank you for the lovely Lord’s Day message and the YouTube link.
Wishing you a beautiful Monday.
WOW .... Thank you for the beautiful graphic.
I don’t think the flowers are roses; are they peonies .... camelias?
As you can see, I’m late with the replies again. I’m sorry. It seems that my family is demanding more and more of my time.
Too many things happening here .... vacation planning, swimming pool monitoring, book work and just living. :)
Thank you for your contributions.
LOL
Thank you for sharing that cute Pet joke.
Ahhh .... thank you for the adorable kittens and the wonderful poem.
Thank you for sharing your kitten poems with Amy’s Place.
Now, if I can stop crying~~~
Jk and I have decided to go ahead and go on our scheduled vacation to Massachusetts and West Virginia the 21st through August 31st. We found a wonderful lady who will come in and take care of our dogs for us. So, now I am frantically trying to get packed and organized for this trip.
I'll be back here at Amy's Place as soon as I can. I am taking my laptop on the trip, so I am hoping to be able to stop in and say hello occasionally and maybe even post a couple of photos.
Have a great day everyone! I really have missed you all.
I know ..... when I received it, I knew that I needed to post it here.
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