HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
Breakfast is on the counter.
Hot cereal with brown sugar and creme
Fried ham steaks
Petite Steaks
Eggs Benedict with hollandaise
Thick sliced Bacon wrapped Scotch Eggs
Fried Potatoes
Toast or rolls
Cinnamon Rolls or Carmel Rolls (warm with butter)
Its a buffet, so eat what and how much you want, (I sent all the calories and cholesterol to Congress, so eat and fill up the arteries of a tax and spend type!)
Now while you eat, something to contemplate.
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For my loving wife.
As It Begins
soft sweet, the kiss of first expectations rose
as heart and needs, do commingle and flows
love’s first blush, and boldness springs anew
as new love begins the long road to do
Time and experiences mature the surge
and they learn when to hoard, or splurge
and they find the pace to grow closer still
and so together, seek and find their fill
Tested over time, and polished smooth and sweet
their love still blooms to Life’s gentle needful beat
a strength, and a shelter, amid the strife of life
exploring always together the joys, and the strife
Long the years of shared trust and passions free
each separate, and yet part of all a love can be
the treasures of the heart, held in their very souls
carrying them beyond even life’s demanding tolls
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March 13, 2009
To Be Or Not To Be
We were burdened beyond measure, . . . so that we despaired even of life. —2 Corinthians 1:8
When I was a child, kids on the playground jokingly quoted Shakespeare’s famous line: “To be or not to be—that is the question!” But we really didn’t understand what it meant. Later I learned that Shakespeare’s character Hamlet, who speaks these lines, is a melancholy prince who learns that his uncle has killed his father and married his mother. The horror of this realization is so disturbing that he contemplates suicide. The question for him was: “to be” (to go on living) or “not to be” (to take his own life).
At times, life’s pain can become so overwhelming that we are tempted to despair. The apostle Paul told the church at Corinth that his persecution in Asia was so intense he “despaired even of life” (2 Cor. 1:8). Yet by shifting his focus to his life-sustaining God, he became resilient instead of overwhelmed, and learned “that we should not trust in ourselves but in God” (v.9).
Trials can make life seem not worth living. Focusing on ourselves can lead to despair. But putting our trust in God gives us an entirely different perspective. As long as we live in this world, we can be certain that our all-sufficient God will sustain us. And as His followers, we will always have a divine purpose “to be.”
Lord, give us grace to trust You when
Life’s burdens seem too much to bear;
Dispel the darkness with new hope
And help us rise above despair. —Sper
