Chicken Soup

[HisDaughter]

AMEN!

This is beautiful and so true. We serve a LIVING LORD AND SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST! Our Life is in HIS, so this is something for us to give THANKS for every day. It gives me great JOY to know that I'm one of HIS Purchased Possessions. HIS Blood has washed my sins away, and I give THANKS this world is NOT my HOME!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Amen to that my friend!

[HisDaughter]

Object Lesson

     A pastor went to see a man who didn't attend church very faithfully.  The man was sitting before a fire, watching the warm glow of the coals.  It was a cold winter day, but the coals were red hot, and the fire was warm.  The pastor pleaded with the man to be more faithful in meeting with the people of God, but the man didn't seem to be getting the message.
     So the pastor took the tongs beside the fireplace, pulled open the screen, and reached in and began to separate all the coals.  When none of the coals was touching the others, he stood wand watched in silence.  In a matter of moments, they were all cold.... The man got the message.

[HisDaughter]

Testament

I have now disposed of all my property to my family.
There is on thing more I wish I could give them, and
that is the Christian religion.  If they had that, and I
had not given them one shilling, they would have been
rich, and if they had not that, and I had given them all
the world, they would be poor

Patrick Henry


Beautiful Things

The best and the most beautiful things in life
cannot be seen or even touched...
they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Wisdom

It's what you learn after you know it all
that counts.

Unknown

[HisDaughter]

Act Medium

     

The children worked long and hard on their own little
cardboard shack.  It was to be a special spot - a clubhouse - where
they could meet in solemn assembly or just laugh, play games
and fool around.  As they thought long and hard about their rules,
they came up with three rather perceptive ones:
1. Nobody act big.
2. Nobody act small
3. Everybody act medium

[HisDaughter]

But You Didn't

I looked at you and smiled the other day
I thought you'd see me but you didn't
I said, "I love you" and waited for what you would say
I thought you'd hear me but you didn't
I asked you to come outside and play ball with me
I thought you'd follow me but you didn't
I drew a picture just for you to see
I thought you'd save it but you didn't
I found some worms 'n such for fishing if we could
I thought you'd want to go but you didn't
I needed you just to talk to, my thought to share
I thought you'd want to but you didn't
I told you about the game hoping you'd be there
I thought you'd surely come but you didn't
I asked you to share my youth with me
I thought you'd want to but you couldn't
My country called me to war, you asked me
  to come home safely
But I didn't.

Stan Gebhardt

[nChrist]

Amen GrammyLuv!

Our children are gifts from GOD we are to raise for HIM.

Love In Christ,
Tom

 

[HisDaughter]

I just ran across this little jewel and had to share:

You dont' have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, "That world is gone."
Peggy Noonan

[HisDaughter]

The Optimist

     There is a story of identical twins.  One was a hopefilled optimist.  "Everything is coming up roses!" he would say.  The other was a sad and hopeless pessimist.  He thought that Murphy, as in Murphy's Law, was an optimist.  The worried parents of the boys brought them to the local psychologist.
     He suggested to the parents a plan to balance the twins' personalities.  "On their next birthday, put them in separate rooms to open their gifts.  Give the pessimist the best toys you can afford, and give the optimist a box of manure."  The parents followed these instructions and carefully observed the results.
     When they peeked in on the pessimist, they heard him audibly complaining, "I don't like the color of this computer...I'll bet this calculator will break...I don't like this game...I know someone who's got a bigger toy car than this..."
     Tiptoeing across the hall, the parents peeked in and saw their little optimist gleefully throwing the manure up in the air.  He was giggling.  "You can't fool me!  Where's there's this much manure, there's gotta be a pony!"

Unknown

[nChrist]

Hello GrammyLuv,

Sister, I was just laughing and reflecting on how many times my dad told various versions of this story. It usually had something to do with complaining, and dad always thought it was funny, regardless of how many times he told it. In fact, he intentionally made up new versions of the story just to irritate us. Bless his heart - he's HOME with the LORD now, so I'd love to hear several more versions of this story.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Ephesians 1:18-23 NASB I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

[HisDaughter]

Hello GrammyLuv,

Sister, I was just laughing and reflecting on how many times my dad told various versions of this story. It usually had something to do with complaining, and dad always thought it was funny, regardless of how many times he told it. In fact, he intentionally made up new versions of the story just to irritate us. Bless his heart - he's HOME with the LORD now, so I'd love to hear several more versions of this story.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Ephesians 1:18-23 NASB I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Oh?  How funny!  I'd never heard it before today so I had to post it! 

[HisDaughter]

If I had My Child to Raise Over Again

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd finger-paint more and point the finger less.
I'd do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less and know to care more.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I'd run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd teach less about the love of power,
  and more about the power of love.

Diane Loomans

[HisDaughter]

After a While

After a while you learn the subtle difference between
   holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and
   company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
   and presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats with your head
   up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult,
   not the defeat of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
   because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for
   plans.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if
   you get too much.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own
   soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you
   flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

[HisDaughter]

What Goes Around Comes Around

     When I was working as a disc jockey in Columbus, Ohio, I used to go to University Hospital or Grant Hospital on my way home.  I would walk down the corridors and just walk into different people's rooms and read Scripture to them or talk to them.  It was a forgetting about my problems and being thankful to God for my health.  It made a difference in the lives of those I visited.  One time it literally saved my life.
     I was very controversial in radio.  I had offended someone in an editorial that I had done about a promoter who was bringing entertainers into town who were not the original members of a particular group.  The person I exposed literally took a contract out on me!
     One night I was coming home at about two o'clock in the morning.  I had just finished working at a night club where I was the emcee.  As I began to open my door, a man came out from behind the side of my house and said, "Are you Les Brown?"
     I said, "Yes, sir."
     He said, "I need to talk to you.  I was sent here to carry out a contract on you."
     "Me? Why?", I asked.
     He said, "Well, there's a promoter that's very upset about the money you cost him when you said that the group that was coming to town was not the real group."
     "Are you going to do something to me?", I asked.
     He said, "No."  And I didn't want to ask him why because I didn't want him to change his mind!  I was just glad!
     He continued, "My mother was in Grant Hospital and she wrote me about how you came in one day and sat down and talked to her and read Scripture to her.  She was so impressed that this morning-disc-jockey, who didn't even know her, came in and did that.  She wrote me about you when I was in the Ohio penitentiary.  I was impressed with that and I've always wanted to meet you.  When I heard the word out on the street that somebody wanted to knock you off," he said, "I accepted the contract and then told them to leave you alone."

Les Brown

[HisDaughter]

Two Brothers

   Two brothers worked together on the family farm.  One was married and had a large family.  The other was single.  At the day's end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit.
   Then one day the single brother said to himself, "It's not right that we should share equally the produce and the profit.  I'm alone and my needs are simple."  So each night he took a sack of grain from his bin and crept across the field between their houses, dumping it into his brother's bin.
   Meanwhile, the married brother said to himself, "It's not right that we should share the produce and the profit equally.  After all, I'm married and I have my wife and children to look after me in years to come.  My brother has no one, and no one to take care of his future."  So each night he took a sack of grain and dumped it into his single brother's bin.
   Both men were puzzled for years because their supply of grain never dwindled.  Then one dark night the two brothers bumped into each other.  Slowly it dawned on them what was happening.  They dropped their sacks and embraced one another.

Author Unknown

[HisDaughter]

Footprints

     

One night a man had a dream.  He dreamt he was walking along the beach with the Lord.  Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.  For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints on the sand - one belonging to him and the other to the Lord.  When the last scene had flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints and he noticed that many times along the path there was only one set.  He also noticed that this happened during the lowest and saddest times of his life.  This bothered him and he questioned the Lord.  "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk all the way with me, but I noticed that during the most troublesome times of my life there was only one set of footprints.  I don't understand why, when I needed you most, you deserted me."
     The Lord replied, "My precious child, I love you and would never leave you.  During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, those were the times when I carried you."

Author Unknown