Posted on 02/10/2008 6:00:58 PM PST by The Mayor
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HALL OF FAME #19 THE WEEKEND THREAD T.G.I.F. at the Finest |
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Thanks Jaycee.....
I'm packin' up my sign and heading to Berkeley on Tuesday in honor of Marines everywhere... including Mrs Mayor, Dubya and me brother...
God Bless you Dave, I wish we were closer so we could join you. See if you can give us an after action report and I will post it in my blog too.
I think they need to turn Berkely into a training zone for their new weapons training, just clean out the town and use it for urban terrorist training....
I am so glad to hear you all are going..Godspeed!
‘Dita, your #12 is Precious!! I Love that Kitty!!
Its a very good thing you are doing.
Semper Fi
He does have the adorable face, doesn’t he?
Well, it’s past my bedtime but before I go, I want all to know this is how I spent my evening, watching this program:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968269/posts
For any of you who didn’t view it, I hope they put up the program on the ABC website.
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Rus. one of your kitties appears to eat ALL of the cake, ALL of the time.... just a "little" pudgy?
LOL
Good morning to the Finest & so very proud here in COLD NE Ohio to be supporting and praying for our troops near & far.
got this email from friend to many of us JTill....
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This is indeed TRUE and is verified on SNOPES.COM
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp
The story that accompanies the verification is a worthwhile read.
TRUE STORY
*A lesson that should be taught in all schools!*
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.
When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. Looking around, confused, they asked, ‘Ms. Cothren, where’re our desks?’
She replied, ‘You can’t have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk.’
They thought, ‘Well, maybe it’s our grades.’
‘No,’ she said.
‘Maybe it’s our behavior.’
She told them, ‘No, it’s not even your behavior.
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.
By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren’s classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom.
Martha Cothren said, ‘Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.’
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.
Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.
By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, ‘You didn’t earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it’s up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don’t ever forget it.’
Happy Day, Sweetie. You da luvva ma life. Be ready at 5:00, I'm takin' you to dinner!
February 11, 2008
READ: 2 Samuel 12:1-13
Faithful are the wounds of a friend. —Proverbs 27:6
Not everyone appreciates correction, but David did. He felt indebted to those who corrected him and realized how much he owed them. “Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness. Let him rebuke me; it shall be as excellent oil; let my head not refuse it” (Ps. 141:5).
Correction is a kindness, David insists, a word that suggests an act of loyalty. Loyal friends will correct one another, even when it’s painful and disruptive to relationships to do so. It’s one of the ways we show love and help one another to grow stronger. As Proverbs 27:6 states: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend.”
It takes grace to give godly correction; it takes greater grace to receive it. Unlike David, who accepted Nathan’s correction (2 Sam. 12:13), we’re inclined to refuse it. We resent the interference; we do not want to be found out. But if we accept the reproof, we will find that it does indeed become “excellent oil” on our heads, an anointing that makes our lives a sweet aroma wherever we go.
Growth in grace sometimes comes through the kind but unpleasant correction of a loyal friend. Do not refuse it, for “he who receives correction is prudent” (Prov. 15:5) and “wise” (9:8-9).
Thank you Kitty Mittens!
Thank you Dubya.
Thanks Dolly, I can’t imagine how much work went into that flag with all those faces in it.
5? You better call me when you get home, I’ll be workin.
Sure do hate I missed that! Would loved to have seen it!
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