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Posted on 08/01/2011 2:29:55 AM PDT by JustAmy
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Sure hope this practice post gets deleted..Nobody’s perfect
:o)
I hit post instead of preview.
Improved version will follow.
At the end of summer, when the power mower was broken and wouldn’t
run, I kept hinting to my husband that he ought to get it fixed, but
somehow the message never sunk in.
Finally I thought of a clever way to make the point. When my husband
arrived home that day, he found me seated in the tall grass, busily
snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.
He watched silently for a short time, and then went into the house. He was
gone only a few moments, and when he came out again he handed me a
toothbrush.
“When you finish cutting the grass,” he said, “you might as well sweep the
sidewalks.”
He will be just fine, when they take the casts off.
An elderly couple, who were childhood sweethearts, had married and settled
down in their old neighborhood and are celebrating their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
They walk down the street to their old school.
There, they hold hands as they find the old desk they’d shared, and where
he had carved “I love you, Sally.”
On their way back home, a bag of money falls out of an armored car,
practically at their feet. She quickly picks it up, but they don’t know
what to do with it, so they take it home. There, she counts the money, and
it’s fifty-thousand dollars. The husband says, “We’ve got to give it
back.” She says, “Finders keepers” and she puts the money back in the bag
and hides it up in their attic.
The next day, two FBI men are going door-to-door in the neighborhood,
looking for the money and show up at their home.
They say, “Pardon me, but did either of you find any money that fell out
of an armored
car yesterday?”
She says, “No.” The husband says, “She’s lying. She hid it up in the
attic.” She says, “Don’t believe him, he’s getting senile.” But the agents
sit the man down and begin to question him. One says, “Tell us the story
from the beginning.”
The old man says, “Well, when Sally and I were walking home from school
yesterday...”
The FBI guy looks at his partner and says, “We’re outta here.
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Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5)
O believers, take joy in the great honour bestowed upon you by the Lord Himself! Not only has He made you His son, pure and undefiled, but He has counted you worthy to be built together with your fellow saints and Christ Himself to be the very temple to house His Spirit. What a blessing it is to be the object of such a gift! Praise be to the Lord Almighty who has made us into living stones to take special and essential part in His sovereign plan!
Beautiful, Dubya...Amen
You do a great job all the time.
Aw, thank you, Dubya..I needed that!
It’s probably not a name we would use for ourselves, but the apostle Paul often called believers “saints” in the New Testament (Eph. 1:1; Col. 1:2). Did he call them saints because they were perfect? No. These people were human and therefore sinful. What then did he have in mind? The word saint in the New Testament means that one is set apart for God. It describes people who have a spiritual union with Christ (Eph. 1:3-6). The word is synonymous with individual believers in Jesus (Rom. 8:27) and those who make up the church (Acts 9:32).
Saints have a responsibility through the power of the Spirit to live lives worthy of their calling. This includes, but is not limited to, no longer being sexually immoral and using improper speech (Eph. 5:3-4). We are to put on the new character traits of service to one another (Rom. 16:2), humility, gentleness, patience, love, unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. 4:1-3), obedience, and perseverance during hardship and suffering (Rev. 13:10; 14:12). In the Old Testament, the psalmist called saints “the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight” (Ps. 16:3).
Our union with Christ makes us saints, but our obedience to God’s Word through the power of the Holy Spirit makes us saintly.
Read: Colossians 1:1-2
I got a lot of late cards too. And a late BD dinner, there was no way we were going any where near the Mall area as Am. Idol was doing their auditioning that day. And it looked like the day after Thanksgiving at the mall.
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Prayers up my FRiend, nothing is to big for HIM to remove. We pray oh, Lord, Father of us all that you will remove this cancer from our dear, dear, friend. Earthly doctors may give up, but we know YOU are the most powerful physician in the universe and nothing is beyond Your power. In the name of Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
No, still in Tulsa will be leaving for a 2 day drive back tomorrow morning. Man, it’s hot here 103 high humidity and no AC in my truck.
Oh my , Rus..wonder if an old fashioned window swamp cooler type is still sold..I know how hot it is!!
I dunno but am going to look around today. It’s like a blast furnace around here. I know you know how hot it is we are in the same neck of the woods even tho you are still further south than me.
We’re breaking records for triple digit days..I hope you find something to make your trip more tolerable!
Oh, Meg, that is a beautiful picture of Cathedral Rock, in Sedona, AZ!
There is a legend about that rock that you might find interesting, preformed by two Native American dancers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvKA4WjDHK4
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