[Mama_Bear]

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[Mama_Bear]

Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Mama_Bear; Dutchess; Aquamarine; DollyCali, and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation’s leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.

Please keep these FReepers
and their loved ones in your prayers.

Maigrey...............................cousin ladtx......................................2 sons scubachick.......................husband gator girl..........................husband severa................husband, brother LBGA.........................................son Hostel...................................cousin SpookBrat..........................nephew Himyar......................................son boxerblues............................2 sons the piper....................................son sheeza...............................husband kemathen7.......................husband Diver Dave..............nephew, niece deadhead.............................cousin JimRobinson................2 nephews Armymarinemom...............3 sons Darheel.................................niece dixie sass............................nephew BeAllYouCanBe.......................son AgThorn...............................2 sons kneezles.....................................son The Mayor..............................niece ValerieUSA...........................2 sons StarCMC............................brother TexKat........................son, stepson Spruce.............................daughter ODC-GIRL....................active duty Dubya.................................nephew Donaeus.............................nephew SunflowerGal.................grandson katykelly...................................son Repubmommy...................brother Lakeside...............................2 sons philman_36....................2 nephews Veloxherc.....................active duty mrstank............................husband WVNan........................friend's son american_ranger......................son AF_Blue........................active duty lula.................................son-in-law auboy....................................cousin jamaly.....................brother-in-law Leofl...........................................son wingnutx......................active duty chena.........................................son LakeLady............................nephew LUV W........................................son cjk.................................active duty misty4jc............................husband mhking................................cousin The Mayor.................friend’s son Bykrbayb...................................son Colorado Slim...................nephew sneakers...................................son ariamne...........................2 cousins nelibeli...............................nephew Alouette.....................................son CGblue..........................active duty bigghurtt........................active duty Palladin.............................grandson Skimask.....................................son Gonzo...........................friend's son

OhioWfan.....................................son mystery-ak....................son, husband Gogrammy............................grandson Inspectorette..................................son Blessed American..................nephew Slip18......................................nephew anniegetyourgun...................nephew Pippin.......................niece’s husband Doug from Upland............son-in-law weldgophardline...........brotherinlaw Future Snake Eater.................cousin WaterDragon...............SIL,grandson BeforeISleep..................................son Consort...................2 daughters, SIL Warrior Nurse............. ...active duty SK1 Thurman.................active duty David Osborne.................active duty fc2tomschermuly.............active duty bkwells.............................active duty LongCut...........................active duty Trish.................................active duty LadyX..................................grandson fawn796..................................nephew Homeschoolmama................nephew Tiffee4Bob..........................boyfriend Atomic Conspiracy .......half-brother Atomic Conspiracy ....niece, nephew MozartLover...................son, nephew visualops...................................cousin thumperusn.......................active duty cookcounty.....................................son RoseinRoseBear....cousin’s husband Conspiracy Guy................2 nephews MrsMike31...........................husband Notwithstanding..............active duty Q6-God/twin brother.......active duty eaglesiniowa.................................son spotbust1...............................husband Don Simmons..................active duty bjcintennessee..................son, niece campfollower............................fiance Ladysmith......nephew, friend’s son Painter...................................nephew ProudAFDad................................son MontanaCowgirlCop...........brother Katydidnt.....................................son Old Sarge........................active duty tina07............son-in-law and friend Hope and Glory............................son Tapatio................................2 nephews ak_daddoo................................nephew SilentServiceCPOWife.....husband Walkenfree...2 G’sons, G’daughter Walkenfree......................3 nephews Zechariah_8_13.........brotherinlaw Zechariah_8_13....................cousin DirtyHarryY2K...................daughter DirtyHarryY2K...................soninlaw El Gato....................................nephew frankiep...........................active duty MississippyMuddy.................sister MississippyMuddy.........2 nephews kimmie7................................brother Kramster..............................stepson

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Mama.

[Texagirl4W]

Good morning, Mama Bear. I just love your play day post and thought the following was in line with your positive thoughts. It's titled, 'The Positive Side Of Life'.

1. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.

2. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

3. Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.

4. Sometimes happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.

5. Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?

6. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us,

7. If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?

8. You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

9. Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

10. We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors. But they all exist very nicely in the same box.

11. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

12. My Best One: Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.

[The Mayor]

June 1, 2005

God Said That

Read:
Psalm 23

You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. -Psalm 23:4

Bible In One Year: Proverbs 1-3

When 8-year-old Jacob visited his Grampa in the hospital, he came with his own custom-made "Get Well" card. It was an 81/2" x 11" piece of stiff white paper folded in half. On the front he had written, "Hope you feel better soon." On the inside, in large block letters, was this message:

I will be with you
wherever you go.

There was no Scripture reference, so Jacob added these words: "God said that." He wanted to be sure I didn't expect him to be at my side during my entire hospital stay.

That added note conveyed an unintended and deeper truth that brought a smile to my face and comfort to my heart. A hospital can be a lonely place. It's a world of unfamiliar faces, first-time medical procedures, and uncertain diagnoses. But it's in just such a setting that God can quiet an anxious heart and give assurance that He'll go with you down every hall, through every new door, into any unknown future-yes, even through "the valley of the shadow of death" (Psalm 23:4).

Maybe you have had an unexpected setback or loss. Your future is unknown. Trusting Jesus as your Savior and Lord, you can be sure of this: He will go with you wherever you go. You can believe it. God said that! -Dennis De Haan

Whenever I feel that Christ is near,
All cares and sorrows flee;
He is my strength, my hope, my life,
He's all in all to me. -Lewis

No danger can come so near the Christian that God is not nearer.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
How Does God Keep His Promises?

[GailA]

Good morning ALL.

[deadhead]

Received the following in my email yesterday :-)

A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife turning
back and forth, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was
not far off he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday. I'd like to
be eight again, she replied, still looking in the mirror.

On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl
of Lucky Charms, and then took her to Six Flags theme park .
What a day!
He put her on every ride in the park: the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear,
and the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was.

Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was
reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's
where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake.

Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favorite candy, M&M's.

What a fabulous adventure! Finally she wobbled home with her husband
and collapsed into bed exhausted. He leaned over his wife with a big
smile and lovingly asked, "Well Dear, what was it like being eight again?"

Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my dress size"

"Work to live, don't live to work---We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing"

Have a great day all, have fun :-)

[luvie]

How Garfield and Odie play.....

.....that proves "play" is relative! hee-hee

[Diver Dave]

Mornin' MB.
Another Play Day? Yippeeee!
School's out so every day is gonna be a Play Day with our Grandsons.

[FreeTheHostages]

[Billie]

P.S. Love the color of your backgrounds. :)

Looks Like the color of that dress I wore last weekend. :)

[LadyX]

Okay --it's now WEDNESDAY, and I'm finally catching up..:))
Kinda confusing to have a 4-day weekend, Military Monday on Tuesday, and now a Play Day when I didn't get to play until this evening..:))

First, I have to take exception to one of the items on the list for 8-year olds:

All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset."

In fact, I turned 8 5 months after Pearl Harbor, and we were anything but blissfully unaware, all of America and our citizens and their families immersed in World War II.

We children bought war stamps for our war bond books;

collected scrap paper and metal to be recycled for the war effort;

our parents used ration stamps for rationed needed-for-the-troops for essential goods (coffee; sugar; shoes; butter; etc.);

we wrote "censored" mail to friends and loved ones in the military;

we fully participated by being the one to fill the bathtub with water and turning out all lights in the house, flashlights at the ready, in Blackout Drills, with wardens on every block in cities;

were up to date on the war with newspapers, magazines, radio reports and Foxtone films at the Saturday matinees --

We children played "WAR" in the empty lots, digging foxholes against the comping Germans/Japanese --
and learned to identify most of their aircraft, should we see them in our skies --
not unlikely in Miami (I then lived in Coral Gables, a suburb) where German subs were seen right in Biscayne Bay - my own father saw one surface briefly there.

This is why I am so adamant about *not shielding* the children of today from 9/11 and the War on Terror; etc. --

It is a *GOOD THING* for them to work out possible scenarios and how they would honorably respond to any threat to their environment -- to develop *LIFELONG COPING SKILLS* that will do them in good stead!!

(Not to mention turning their blood into ribbons of red, white and blue..:))