FReeper Canteen ~ Guest Military Chaplain ~ February 6 2005

JUST FOR TODAY

As I go through some "troubles" in my own life, I've worked out this "formula" to help me be a useful and happy person. See if it doesn't work for you!

JUST FOR TODAY: I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will be happy. I will assume to be true what Abraham Lincoln said: "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

JUST FOR TODAY: I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything, and not try to improve or regulate anybody but myself.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have lt. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will have a quiet half hour all by myself. During this half hour, I will try and get a better perspective of my life.

JUST FOR TODAY: I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give back to me.

CAPT Benny Hornsby, CHC, USN (Ret)

Mine???

I wish I could do those cool seagulls!

801 posted on 02/06/2005 4:27:38 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH!!!...Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life!)

To: Old Sarge; StarCMC; mylife; Kathy in Alaska; radu; MoJo2001; Radix; All

Do you know the unicorn?
The horse the has one horn?
The pair of them come a dusk
and turn from dark to light
and smell of musk, but do not
touch the horn of the mysterious
unicorn, for they are like feathers
in the wind and touching them
is not done.

It takes them to the a magic time
that rains snow upon this land
and all that was a snowy white turns
dark and dirty in the night
The evil spell was cast and held the unicorns fast
and bond to the dreadful land.

Legend of the Unicorn is meant to teach us
to dream of ethereal things -to leave this ground and always be heaven bound.

bentfeather

802 posted on 02/06/2005 4:27:55 PM PST by Soaring Feather

To: uncleshag; txradioguy

Dual Directional Woo-HooBRATT PHHHBBBLLTTT!!!

803 posted on 02/06/2005 4:28:15 PM PST by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Curses! Back to the laboratory.

804 posted on 02/06/2005 4:28:32 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH!!!...Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life!)

To: StarCMC; Old Sarge; txradioguy

805 posted on 02/06/2005 4:28:35 PM PST by uncleshag (Requests?................What do ~ YOU ~ wanna hear?)

806 posted on 02/06/2005 4:29:07 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)

My brother bought a home with all the contents, one of the rooms, "Andreas" was full of clowns! My son would tell spooky clown stories L0L

Thank God those clowns are gone now!

807 posted on 02/06/2005 4:29:28 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

To: Radix; StarCMC

Radix!!
The Patsies are playing!!

808 posted on 02/06/2005 4:29:34 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~2/14/05)

Evil people on Gore's net...tsk tsk...

809 posted on 02/06/2005 4:29:43 PM PST by uncleshag (Requests?................What do ~ YOU ~ wanna hear?)

To: uncleshag; txradioguy

810 posted on 02/06/2005 4:29:46 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)

To: bentfeather; StarCMC; uncleshag; txradioguy

Hang on for a second, they're closing the doors to the Cafe'!

But Sarge brought his easy chair and a jacket, to FReep on the porch, so BACK in a MINIT!

811 posted on 02/06/2005 4:30:41 PM PST by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)

812 posted on 02/06/2005 4:30:49 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)

What makes you think those clowns are gone now?

813 posted on 02/06/2005 4:31:12 PM PST by uncleshag (Requests?................What do ~ YOU ~ wanna hear?)

Eagles on a Scoring drive?

814 posted on 02/06/2005 4:31:38 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

That's using your ah, um,... er, noodle!

815 posted on 02/06/2005 4:32:12 PM PST by uncleshag (Requests?................What do ~ YOU ~ wanna hear?)

uncle.....the hat trick.....#700, #750, #800!!

816 posted on 02/06/2005 4:32:36 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~Support Our Troops! ~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Easter/Passover~2/14/05)

Your right! they could be lurking elswhere

817 posted on 02/06/2005 4:32:39 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

818 posted on 02/06/2005 4:33:09 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)

To: Kathy in Alaska

WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO

The Eagles just put one on the Patsies.

819 posted on 02/06/2005 4:33:41 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH!!!...Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life!)

820 posted on 02/06/2005 4:33:49 PM PST by AZamericonnie

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