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Bits & Pieces- You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it. - A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine. - He had a photographic memory that was never developed. - Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor. - It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - What the caterpiller calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. - Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there! - Everything happens for a reason because life is a process; nothing is by chance. - "Friends are not made, they are recognized." - "If you can't sleep, don't count sheep - Talk to the Shepherd!" It is Me!A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, Who would like this $20 bill? Hands started going up. He said, I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked, who still wants it? Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied, What if I do this? And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up now crumpled and dirty. Now who still wants it? My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumbled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make or circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value: dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. Most important, you are priceless in God's Site! The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special - Don't EVER forget it! Count your blessings, not your problems. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark! Professionals built the Titantic! The Ant and the Contact LensBrenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope and started up the face of the rock. Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens. Here she is on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there. Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her find it. She looked out across at the range of mountains, thinking of the Bible verse that says, The eyes of the Lord run to and from throughout the whole earth. She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me." Finally, they got to the bottom where there was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?" Well that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it. Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it is awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You." At the risk of being accused of being fatalistic, I think it would probably do some of us good to occasionally say, "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will." God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Man and Wife ArgueA man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee." The husband said, " You are in charge of the cooking around here and you should do it because that is your job and I can just wait for my coffee." Wife replies, "No you should do it, and besides it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee." Husband replies, " I can't believe that. Show me." So she fetched the Bible, opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says ....."HEBREWS" What the B.i.b.l.e MeansA father was approached by his small son, who told him proudly, "I know what Bible means." His father smiled and replied, "What do you mean you 'know what the Bible means'?" The son replied, "I do know!" "Okay," said the father. "So what does Bible mean?" "That's easy Daddy. It stands for Basic Information Before Leaving Earth." Famous Quotes"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul." -Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The superior reasoning power...revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Patience is the companion of wisdom." -Saint Augustine (354-430) "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "In my Father's house are many mansions." -The Bible, John 14:2 "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -) "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart." -Helen Keller (1880-1968) "Change your thoughts, and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." -Anne Frank (1929-1945) My Dad!Three boys are in the school yard bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, "My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a poem, they give him $50." The second boy says, "That's nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a song, they give him $100." The third boy says, "I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon. And, it takes eight people to collect all the money!" New Pastor Visiting His ParishionersA new pastor moved into town and went out one Saturday to visit his parishioners. All went well until he came to one house. It was obvious that someone was home, but no one came to the door even after he had knocked several times. Finally, he took out his card, wrote on the back "Revelation 3:20" and stuck it on the door. Revelation 3:20 reads: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." The next day, as he was counting the offering he found his card in the collection plate. Below his message was notation "Genesis 3:10". Genesis 3:10 reads: "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked."
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