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via: Troy Galloway




A MASONIC Thought for December 07, 2012


A SHORT COURSE IN HUMAN RELATIONS
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The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
The five most important words: "You did a good job."
The four most important words: "What is your opinion?"
The three most important words: "if you please."
The two most important words: "Thank you."
The least important word: "I."

Hiram



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via: Brenda Saball

THE BATTLE HAS ALREADY BEEN WON!
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The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember~~~

Noah was a drunk.
...Abraham was too old.
Isaac was a daydreamer.
Jacob was a liar.
Leah was ugly.
Joseph was abused.
Moses had a stuttering problem.
Gideon was afraid.
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer.
Rahab was a prostitute.
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young.
David had an affair and was a murderer.
Elijah was suicidal.
Isaiah preached naked.
Jonah ran from God.
Naomi was a widow.
Job went bankrupt.
Peter denied Christ (3 times!)
The Disciples fell asleep while praying.
Martha worried about everything.
Mary Magdalene was
the Samaritan woman who was divorced, more than once.
Zaccheus was too small.
Paul was too religious.
Timothy had an ulcer
AND
Lazarus was dead!
Now! No more excuses!
God can use you to your full potential.
Besides, you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.
And one more thing~~~

Share this with a friend or two
In the Circle of God's love, God is waiting to use your full potential.

1. God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.
2. Dear God: I have a problem. It's me. My Dear Child: I have the solution. It's Me!
3. Growing old is inevitable~~~growing UP is optional.
4. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
5. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.
6. Do the math & count your blessings.
7. Faith is the ability to not panic.
8. Laugh every day. It's like inner jogging.
9. If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry.
10. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home every day.
11. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
12. The most important things in your house are the people!
13. When we get tangled up in our problems, be still.
God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.
14. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
15 He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

Have a great day!!!
The SON is always shining and He can certainly use you!

NOW ASSUME YOUR POSITION!!!!!!

Thank you Brenda Sis'



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A very poor man lived with his wife.

" One day, his wife, who had very long hair
asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed.

The man felt very sorry and said no.
He explained that he did not even have enough money
to fix the strap of his watch he had just broken.
...
She did not insist on her request.

The man went to work and passed by a watch shop,
sold his damaged watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife.

He came home in the evening with the comb in his hand ready to give to his wife.

He was surprised when he saw his wife with a very short hair cut.

She had sold her hair and was holding a new watch band.

Tears flowed simultaneously from their eyes,
not for the futility of their actions, but for the reciprocity of their love."

MORAL:
To love is nothing, to be loved is something
but to love and to be loved by the one you love,that is EVERYTHING.
Never take love for granted. ((( ♥ )))

 

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via Rosemay Moira Erian

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When 'TRUE'
is there not, a valid-point being exposed here [?]

iow: the difference between 'words of compassion' & more-'positive action'

 

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via Diana Clancy


Very insightful and very true....Take a second to read this:

Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as “Holiday Trees” for the first time this year
which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you.
I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America . . .



The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.


My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.
And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees,
Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me.
I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto.
In fact, I kind of like it.
It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection
near my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a crib, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew,
and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country.
I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way:
where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities
and we aren't allowed to worship God?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.
But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from
and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:
This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her:
“How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Hurricane Katrina).
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said: “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are,
but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government
and to get out of our lives.
And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.
How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

In light of recent events...
terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare
(she was murdered, her body found a few years ago)
complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.
The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself.
And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave,
because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem
(Dr. Spock's son committed suicide).
We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience,
why they don't know right from wrong,
and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.
I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God
and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Funny how we believe what the newspapers say,
but question what the Bible says.
Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire,
but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace,
but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message,
you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe,
or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us
than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did.
But if you discard this thought process,
don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein


Thank you Diana Sis'

God bless you and your's
Merry Christmas

 

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via Brenda Saball

♥-------[]-------♥The light of God surrounds you♥
♥--- [][][][]---♥The love of God enfolds you♥
♥-------[]-------♥The power of God protects you♥
♥-------[]-------♥The presence of God watches over you♥
♥-------[]-------♥ May you feel HIS love,peace and joy ♥



Thank you Brenda Sis'

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via Donna Zurfluh

A story with a moral: The Ship of Friendship

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea
and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island.
The two survivors who have been a good friends, not knowing what else to do,
agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God.
However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful,
they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing they prayed for was food.
The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land,
and he was able to eat its fruit.
The other man’s parcel of land remained barren.
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After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife.
The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor
was a woman who swam to his side of the land.
On the other side of the island, there was nothing.
Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food.
The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him.
However, the second man still had nothing.

Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that he and his wife could leave the island.
In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of the island.
The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island.
He considered the other man unworthy to receive God’s blessings,
since none of his prayers had been answered.

As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from heaven booming,
“Why are you leaving your companion on the island?”

“My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them,”
the first man answered.
“His prayers were all unanswered and so he does not deserve anything.”

“You are mistaken!” the voice rebuked him.
“He had only one prayer, which I answered.
If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings.”

“Tell me,” the first man asked the voice,
“What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?”

“He prayed that all your prayers be answered"

Moral:
For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone,
but those of another praying for us.
Value your friends, don’t leave your loved ones behind.


Thank you Donna Sis'

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Thank you Gloria Sis'


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OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES:


Annie, 6 years old, gets home from school.
She had her first family planning lesson at school.

Her mother, very interested, asks;..." How did it go?"
"I died of shame!" She answers!

Lucy from over the road, says that the stork brings babies.
Sally next door said can buy babies at the orphanage.
Peter in my class says you can buy babies at the hospital.

Her mother answers laughingly “But that’s no reason to be ashamed?”

“No, but I can’t tell them that we were so poor that you and daddy had to make me yourselves!”