My new signs for the van and the yards.. Yippie!
Me looking at one of the B-Day presents
The Award Trophy "Hero of the Tax Revolt"
Me on stage accepting the award from Jim Ostrowski
Last but not least, my beautiful family!
Posted on 02/09/2006 10:00:35 PM PST by Billie
Yes, you sure do have a beautiful family! God has blessed you richly, indeed.
HUGS!
Oh, Rus...thank you so much for sharing those wonderful pictures with us. Your family is so handsome. Love the trophy! WOOHOO!
A belated Happy Birthday Rus and thanks for sharing the pictures of your lovely family et al. Also, congratulations on your "FreeBuffalo Award"!!!
I had to share with the rest of my family and friends..
Your family is beautiful, you have been blessed
Just went out to the store, it is getting colder, yes brrrrrrrrr :-) But, it is very pretty.
Awwww....I am proud to be considered part of your family/friends!...as well as being a part of the rest of this family here! (((hugs)))
Congratulations on the Hero of the Tax Revolt Award, Rus. You deserve that and more.
Thank you for sharing pictures of the award presentation and your lovely family.
Belated Happy Birthday Wishes!!
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
WVNan e-mailed these snow photos to me last night. I have enjoyed all the recent weather photos posted at the Finest. Calfornia rarely has any "weather" to photograph or talk about.
Did God Create Evil?
The university professor challenged his students with this question:
"Did God create everything that exists? "
A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" the professor asked.
"Yes sir," the student replied.
The professor an swered, "If God created everything, then God created evil. since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor does cold exist?"
The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"
The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy,vand heat is what makes a body, or matter, have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.
The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light intomany colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto its self. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
The young man's name --- Albert Einstein
Beautiful..Keep warm!
What wonderful pictures of you and your lovely family. Looks like you really had a great birthday!
Thank you for sharing the beauty.
How sweet that gif is!
Yes, you've been shopping and are all decked out in your Sunday best - hope you had a great day today!
You are welcome for it all! :)
Oh, brrrrrr! Get in out of that blizzard before you get frostbite, Colleen! LOL
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