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Thanks my friends! =========================================================== >-->From Heartwarmers: v . ._, |_ ., `-._\/ . \ / |/_ \\ _\, y | \// _\_.___\\, \\/ -.\|| `7-,--.`._|| / / , /' `-. `./ / |/_.' | |// |_ / |- | | =| | | --------------------/ , . \--------._ jg >SNAPPING BEANS by Diane Dean White The old apple trees were overgrown but still bared the delicious fruit they always had. The house where I spent so many warm summer days was flanked on both sides by the beauty of that orchard. I was surprised that the house was never sold and still belonged to a family member. Maybe they just couldn't part with it. Each summer had been exciting as a teenager, because I could plan to stay a week in the countryside where so much activity took place. Driving on the long road that led back to the old farmhouse, I wished I could go back in time to once again sit and chat with Aunt Edna. The birds outside chirped a welcome as I looked around the old home. White sheets kept the overstuffed chairs and sofas clean -- a lavender scent permeated my nostrils as I walked in the front door. I immediately pictured my aunt coming through the dining room door to greet me. But there was no one here. Once inside the kitchen with gingham curtains, Aunt Edna's apron could be seen hanging on a peg against the wall. I saw the old colander hanging with the other utensils and I could almost hear her say, "Lands sake we'd best get to snapping these beans, and have a tall drink of lemonade so we can keep chattering away." We'd go out the back door from the kitchen onto the screen porch that was always so large and accommodating for every need possible. Aunt Edna and Uncle Henry kept some rockers and a small wooden table with straight chairs, and a red and white checkered table cloth with an oil lamp so we could eat our afternoon or evening meal on the porch. There was an old hook rug that made it cozy and always a fresh coat of paint that made it feel so clean. Sometimes Uncle Henry would bring his guitar out and play a few cords. Aunt Edna and I would join in singing "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" or something else. I learned a lot of songs. The rockers were still in place as I walked around the back porch. The fragrant flowers that bloomed so beautifully outside the screen filled my head and I sat down. Some old galvanized pans were stacked near the table and I remembered all those Blue Lake green beans that we snapped as we talked about the things that were happening everywhere. We must have covered every family event, historic moments and how Aunt Edna's own grandmother had taught her to sew a perfect stitch. Often a neighbor or another relative would stop by, and they too, would pick up a pan and sit with us. More talk and laughter would continue as we snapped those beans! Uncle Henry had a large garden and he leased a portion of his land out to some of the big farmers, as he had retired and was no longer working the farm with the long hours he once had. Aunt Edna didn't do a lot of freezing. She canned most of the produce out of their garden, and beans were no exception. She liked them canned and so we'd get out the old Mason jars and put up a number of beans, along with zucchini, tomatoes, squash, pickles and chili sauce and applesauce, apple butter and so many good recipes. I was happy to plan my two week summer stay with my great aunt and uncle, as it was always special for a city gal in the country. "Take something as a memory of Edna and Henry's," the current farm owner and my distant relative said when I picked up the key. "There's nobody left and they'd want you to have something." Years ago Aunt Edna had given me an old collection of china slippers that she knew I loved so. Over the years, I had added to her collection, and now they were part of my home decor, kept in an old antique china cabinet. I lingered just a few minutes longer, thinking back to the sound of the voices and laughter from the old place that had come to mean so much to me. We had made a special skirt on the back porch, sewing the hem and gathering the waist band one summer afternoon. There was a barn dance that we'd been invited to, and at 13, it was exciting to have a new skirt and be going to a fun activity in anticipation of meeting others my age. I wasn't disappointed, as there were a lot of kids and I became friends with several. I wondered now whatever happened to them. I picked up the old galvanized pans that we'd used to snap those beans and walked back out into the orchard. I picked a few apples and took them to the car with me. Nothing would ever bring back the memories more than what I could embrace in my own heart, about my summer visits with Aunt Edna and Uncle Henry. But I could hang the pans on my porch and someday share my memories with my own family. I walked back to the car looking at farmland as far as my eyes could see. I heard the noon whistle blow and I could almost hear Aunt Edna remark, "We'd best get the table set and ready, Henry will soon be here for his dinner." In the distance, I could hear Uncle Henry coming back from the barn singing, "It was from Aunt Dinah's quilting party I was seeing Nellie home." I smiled -- so thankful for the summer memories with two special people. -- Diane Dean White ___________________________________________ Diane is a freelance writer and author. She has shared her stories with a wide range of publications as well as websites online. She is married to Stephen and they are the parents of three grown children and three grand-gals. They make their home on the Carolina Coast. Diane is the author of Beach Walks and recently released Carolina in the Morning -- a moving Christian story set in present day near Charleston, SC. To read more, please visit Diane's website at: http://www.dianedeanwhite.com/ ========================================================== >-->From Our Friend LouiseA :) , , /////| ///// | ///// | |~~~| | | |===| |/| | B |/| | | I | | | | B | | | | L | / | E | / |===|/ jgs '---' >The End: The World Cannot Know What We Know (By William G. Carter) [edited] Neill Hamilton, who taught at Drew University for many years, once observed how people in our time lose hope for the future. It happens whenever we let our culture call the shots on how the world is going to end. At this stage of technological advancement, the only way the culture can make sense of the future is through the picture of everything blowing up in a nuclear holocaust or some other major worldwide destructive event such as asteroids hitting the earth or a giant tidal wave. The world cannot know what we know, that everything has changed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, that the same Christ is coming to judge the world and give birth to a new creation. And so, people lose hope because all they have to look forward to is mankind destroying themselves. Many try to spend all their efforts in preventing this, manifesting in such vigilance in issues such as "global warming" and "nuclear reduction", yet if they are honest with themselves, they still are terrified deep-down because they have no assurance, no hope that all will be okay. Disaster movies play on these fears which is one reason why they often do so well at the box office. As Hamilton puts it: This substitution of an image of nuclear holocaust for the coming of Christ is a parable of what happens to Christians when they cease to believe in their own eschatological heritage. The culture supplies its own images for the end when we default by ceasing to believe in biblical images of God's triumph at the end. The great news of the Bible is this: when all is said and done, God wins. Hope IS available for all today - and it is found only in Jesus Christ. No matter how scary times may seem, as Christians we can rest secure in our faith relationship with Jesus, knowing and believing that He is our "living hope" - and that He will take care of us, come what may - through this life and the life to come. We have hope! "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time." (1 Peter 1:3-5 NIV) --- ...Thanks LouiseA! , , /////| ///// | ///// | |~~~| | | |===| |/| | B |/| | | I | | | | B | | | | L | / | E | / |===|/ jgs '---' One thing for certain, as Christians, dwelling on the end is just not practical. Jesus Christ said... Matt.24: [36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. God is the only one to know when the end shall be. We trust God through Jesus Christ to take care of us, so our duty is to spread the Gospel 2 Tim.4: [2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. while we have time to do so .... 1 Thes.5: [2] For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. [3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. [7] For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. [8] But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. [11] Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. =============================================================== >-->From Archives InspiredBuffalo: .-""-._ / ___/ \ _&_ _.--""|/ `\| // \\ .' ( ^/ ^ )'. / / \ \ / | _ | \ // / \ \\ | _\____/ | /_/_/_\_\_\ | .' \____/-._ | .-"-. | / `; /# \ | / / _|_.---\ | | |.-.; :--.-(_/.____/.-""\___/"-. / \ / ~~/ /\ \{"=.______.="} /--. ; /___/_~~/ ; .--\"=...__...="} / \-/ `\______|/ \-.______..-; | /`| | \ | |||| || | /_ | |_______/ | |||| || | \_/| |-------' |--'||'--._|| | | | | || |> |______| |____________|._ || _..-;| | [___] | `||() || |______ |\/|____________|jgs|| () (__) \__/ (__) () >A FATHER’S FORGIVENESS By: Joseph J. Mazzella When I was a boy I always wanted to be a cowboy. I remember my Mom worrying about me getting sick from the heat in the summer, because I wore a thick blue sweater all the time. No respectable cowboy, however, would wear short sleeves so I sweated while I played. I was overjoyed too when one day my parents gave me a bb gun. It looked just like a lever action rifle that all the cowboys used in the movies. I spent hours each day during those summer months shooting at stumps and pretending to be John Wayne. I even mastered the one-handed, swing, cock and shoot move I had seen him do in a movie once. At least that is what I thought. As I was coming into the house one afternoon, though, I tried it one time too many. The gun that I thought was empty let out a soft pop and a bb flew across the room and parted the hair of my Dad who was asleep on the couch. My Dad took one look at the bb hole a half inch above his head, walked over to me, took my gun, walked outside, and calmly broke it in half. I didn’t cry too much over this. I knew how close I had come to hurting my Dad with my stupidity. I didn’t expect to ever get another bb gun either. That is why I was so surprised when my Dad bought me another one the next year. I guess he thought I had wised up enough to know how to use it this time. I never put a single bb in the new gun, but in my imagination John Wayne rode again. I eventually outgrew my cowboy stage, but I never did outgrow my appreciation for my Father’s forgiveness. He showed me that even when I messed up in the worse way I was still loved. He gave me another chance and let me know that I was forgiven whether I deserved it or not. He shared with me some of the unconditional love and forgiveness that our Father in Heaven has for us all. May we always embrace and share that love and forgiveness as well. -<>- >OFTENTIMES WE ASSOCIATE late-night TV shows, such as the Tonight Show, with celebrities... However, on January 21, 2009, Jay Leno interviewed an unusual guest: 15-year-old McKay Hatch. In 2007, Hatch founded his first No Cussing Club at his junior high school in South Pasadena, California. According to McKay's website, www.nocussing.com, the teen was dismayed at the language many of the children at his school, including some of his friends, were using. Rather than just put up with it, as so many of us are prone to do, he decided to do something about it. He mentioned it to his friends and actually challenged them to stop cussing. He says his friends were shocked; most of them didn't even realize they were using offensive language, and certainly had no idea it was bothersome to Hatch. Surprisingly, and very pleasantly so, they accepted his challenge to stop swearing, and thus was born the first No Cussing Club. The word spread and after one month the club had 50 members. When McKay got into high school, he founded a similar club, and had over 100 students join immediately. The word has further spread until today there are over 20,000 members in 25 countries. Club members take the "No Cussing Challenge," committing to use better language. However, this is not just a "negative" challenge., to not use bad language, but a "positive" challenge as well, to use "polite, respectful, and kind language." Further, the club's motto is, "Leave people better than you found them." This concept has impacted not only the recipients of the kind language, but the speakers as well: McKay relates that many club members have noticed a change in their own lives from using positive language. And the concept has progressed to the club members "looking for opportunities everyday to help people and lift them up through their words and actions." (Liana Stanley) KneEmail: "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear." Ephesians 4:29 Bible reading for 05.15.09: John 4:31-54; 2 Kings 22, 23 -<>- + (|) _____.___.|_|. | / \ |===| | / \ | o | |__/__v__\|, ,| | | | | | || || |/| . . . |','| ||| A A A | , | ||| M M M | | wtx --------------------- >WHEN THEY TRESPASS AGAINST US I saw a sign in a church parking lot. It read: "Parking for Church Use Only. Violators will be towed." I wondered if it might be more effective if some humor were used: "Parking for Church Use Only. Violators will be baptized." Or, "Violators will be expected to tithe." That should clear the lot! I heard of one church that posted a sign that read, "We forgive those who trespass against us; but they will be towed all the same." We've all had people trespass against us in one way or another. And we have each done our share of trespassing. The dictionary defines trespassing as any offense, transgression or error against others... That covers a tremendous territory. Our lives are full of trespasses, which is why an effective response to the trespasses of others is so essential to happy, healthy and whole living. In his book LEE: THE LAST YEARS, author Charles Flood reports that after the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady who took him to the remains of a grand old tree in front of her house. There she bitterly cried that its limbs and trunk had been destroyed by Federal artillery fire. She looked to Lee for a word condemning the North or at least sympathizing with her loss. After a brief silence, Lee said, "Cut it down, my dear Madam, and forget it." He seemed to know that as long as she continued to recount her losses, she'd never get over them. She had to release the North from her debt in order to move on to healthy living. In the end, if we learn the power of releasing others from our debt, we will build the happy and productive lives we want. It may not always be our first response, but it is our best final response to those who trespass against us. By Steve Goodier -<>- >Links for Your Enjoyment: Overseer http://www.ShangralaFamilyFun.com/BibleStudy/overseer.html Maxine On Jesus http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/maxineonjesus.html Taking a Catnap 2 http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/catnap2.html Albino Animals http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/albino.html Identity Theft! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/identitytheft.html Toya Mini Tiger! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/wildbearfarm.html Wild Bear Farm! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/wildbearfarm.html Awww Animals 5! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/animals5.html Real Eagle Story! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/eagle.html Under His Wings! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/wings.html One Texas Morning! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/fawn.html Why God Gave Us Pets! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/gpets.html Bucky And The Beagle! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/visitor.html Mother Squirrel's Love! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/motherslove.html -<>- >From Our Friend PatDeE :) Colorized pictures from days gone by. Exceptional quality. http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=d6d9d5385aee --- ...Beautiful! Thanks PatDeE! -<>- >From Our Friend Dottie :) Once you start,you can’t stop watching. And no computer effects! https://www.youtube.com/embed/594Oxq4c0XA?feature=player_embedded Bowser and Blue... Colorectal Surgeon http://youtu.be/_43f9RzAqMM --- ...Oh My! Great AND Funny! Thanks Dottie! -<> >From Our Friend Bunni :) he Ocean as you have never seen it. (GO FULL SCREEN) http://www.youtube.com/embed/mcbHKAWIk3I --- ...Aww, Very nice! Thanks Bunni! -<>- >From Our Friend Melody :) Fraud against Older Adults http://www.fraud.org/learn/older-adult-fraud Find the Lowest Gas Prices in Your Area - GasPriceWatch.com http://www.gaspricewatch.com/ --- ...Great resources! As Obama's new taxes hit this last one will be even more useful! Thanks Melody! -<>- >From Our Friend LouiseA :) Watch full screen & sound on..... Be sure to watch this on the largest computer screen you have (HD if possible) and have your sound turned on. The hummingbird doing barrel rolls chasing a bee is not to be missed. Be sure and watch closely (around 2 min 40 sec) and check out the baby bat under its mother. Unreal. If you never knew what goes on in the garden when you aren't paying attention, watch this - some of the finest photography you will ever see. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0 If you've never seen these massive choreographed fountains, stop what you're doing and watch them. It looks just like a fireworks show in a pool. But when Whitney Houston's voice jumps the octave - that's when your jaw will drop! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Yq84oDpIPc Five funny masculine moments that show men being men and the outcome of their masculine ways. Men are easily distracted by an attractive woman and most of the time have no ability whatsoever to hide the fact that they are looking at the woman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JvlQYi5LoYM If you've ever been to Baltimore, you know the Inner Harbor doesn't have a great reputation. But now there's something amazing and ingenious that could change everything about the waterfront. You have to see it to believe it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v5l7s6wC50g The amazing Christopher does a one-man dance to the tune of "YMCA" by the Village People. (It's hard to believe - the other 4 are puppets!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_nIx-6irf8o --- ...TeeHee! Thanks LouiseA! 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Both thought they were smarter than God and ignored His precepts. Both have gone down a road that had an “unknown price” to pay for it. Both are now finding out the price for their choices. Such is the way of sin….. Consider… “For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order : if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.” II Thessalonians 3:10 God said such, but our government “knew better.” They poured money into poor families and made it both impractical to have a job, and to live with a husband. My wife and I have asked numerous folks on various forms of welfare to go get a job. The answer is universal, “I can’t afford to. I can’t get a job that will pay me as much as I get now.” The only reason to continue to hold a job for many is your own self-respect! Two generations have arisen since Lyndon Johnson’s great society… Grandma is now on welfare. The grandkids know nothing else. It is today’s “normal.” Billions of dollars have been poured into the inner cities. It has all led to peace and tranquility… hasn’t it? No! It has lead to, anger, violence and a general degradation of everything. In some circles 3 out of 4 children are now born outside of marriage. Total disintegration! What once was shameful, is now normal. What has been the federal government’s reaction? More programs! They don’t seem to realize that the programs are the problem. Money without work will never lead to respect nor will it achieve stability. The government simply cannot be all things to all people. Now consider liberalism in the churches. Consider… “And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church” Ephesians 1:22 Consider again… “Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God.” I Peter 4:11 The leaders of many churches looked around in the 1950’s and 60’s and decided that there was a better way to serve God than the way God had chosen to be served… They decided that “His church” was incomplete and needed something more to attract people. They started changing many things. As you read the book of Acts you can see how Christians and churches of the 1st century behaved. Those Christians had leaders that were literally inspired of God… They had the apostles and other prophets. How can church leaders of the 21st century be smarter leaders than the ones the church originally had? Obviously they cannot! They are only wise in their own minds… “For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves ; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.” II Corinthians 10:12 Have you noticed that the church of the 1st century was not about the next pot luck? No worldly entertainment? No youth groups and activities? They weren’t building fellowship halls gymnasiums, had no ball teams etc. Today’s leaders set up numerous “extra” organizations and made numerous worldly alliances rather than being satisfied with Jesus as their head. Individual congregations going about their own work, with their own elders and deacons seems to be out of date… or is it? Now ask yourself why the youth are abandoning “Christianity” in droves… They see it as hype without substance. . . An empty shell that makes a lot of noise. They are right about what they see, but what they are seeing is not Christianity! What was the driving force of the Christianity that Christ ordained? It wasn’t fund raising and building! It wasn’t entertainment! It was salvation from sin and godly living because of the blood shed for the forgiveness of sin, our sin! As these modern churches have witnessed the loss of their young people… what has been their reaction? More programs! Billions of dollars given by hard working believers have been poured into entertainment and youth programs… It has all led to godly Christian families and universal conversion of the next generation hasn’t it? Of course not! These modern liberal churches have made the same mistake the feds have made! They have left the leadership of Jesus and made the church like the world. These modern leaders then wonder why their children raised in all this “Christian” worldliness have turned out to be like the world! Well…. Dah! The feds will never solve their problem until they have the nerve to cut the money off, and force people to either work or starve. This is the God given back to work program! The churches will not save their children until they have the nerve to cut the entertainment with its various programs off and go back to converting people to Jesus rather than worldliness. Neither the feds, nor the liberal churches seem to have the will to neither admit the problem nor implement its only solution! The price in both cases the sacrifice of the next generation! Are you willing to pay “their” bill with the blood of your children? Are you like Lot who was willing to sacrifice his daughters to get along with the people outside? Matthew 15:9 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN." Jerry Blount The Pillar church of Christ 316-320-4321 www.JerrysChristianjottings.com ================================================================= .---. .---. ,';' `.';' `.. f :Bo. ` d88: `\ /d88P' `\ ; /d888P' `. ',d8&8P' : ;d8&7' | :8: | qx >In an Instant Story Editor: By Brad Lymburner Joyce Schowalter Arizona, USA My parents were divorced when I was 2 years old. I stayed with my mom and didn't know what it meant to have a two parent home when I was little. Although my dad was a decent enough weekend dad, that was all he was. My mom worked her tail off raising me as a single mom, and made it so I never knew how broke we were or how tough she had it. My world changed drastically when I was 8. My mom met and fell in love with someone named Jim, and of course she and I were a package deal. When they married, we moved a couple hours away to Indianapolis. I left friends, family, school -- all I had known. Jim had been previously married and had two daughters, both of whom were grown with kids of their own. I didn't know what to expect or how we all would fit together -- what this man, already a grandfather, would do with a boy, 8 years old. What I did know, very early on, was that I became his son that very first day he fell in love with my mom. I don't mean that he tried to replace my father -- who was still a good dad -- in any way. But from day one, I was his son, both to him and everyone he knew. He never used the term stepson; it was just, "This is my son, Brad." He provided for us and made sacrifices. My mom became a stay-at-home mom when they married. Jim put me through private school, not because he was wealthy, but because it was his priority to give me the very best he could. Jim had such an impact on my life through his fatherly example and is significantly responsible for the man that I became. He taught me what it meant to work: I have earned income outside my home, in some form, since I was 9 years old. He taught me what it meant to sacrifice. As much as he tried to hide the fact, I saw him go without so I could continue through private school and on into college. I have my own children now and Jim couldn't love them more were they from his own blood. He is their Grandpa, and I can't wait to share tales about him with *their* children. I will never forget his broken wrist playing basketball, or his broken arm playing football, obtained only because he cared enough to be involved with me. His waking from anesthesia after having his arm set created its own set of family stories that I can't quote here. Most importantly, Jim taught me what it meant to love unconditionally. I could have been anything to him -- a nuisance, a tag-a-long, or a necessary burden. What I became to him, in an instant, was his son. =======HeroicStories======= >-->From Kidwarmers: _, _.=~`/ .-~ / ( / /,.---.\_ .-. , .-"` '-, | \_,'; / .-="` `"=. | : ; / .-. .-\ `,: :.' / / | / \ |: : / |-, | |-,| `, '.,' \O|_/ \O|| \: \ / \, .---....-') '._______,/ `/_.-~' .' \-----'/ jgs /_.-~'_.-'_`-._ `\_/ / /__,.-' `. `~"---`--'` `._,-'~-,) >THE FUNNY THINGS KIDS SAY Mike says that when he read the "beach" story last week, it reminded him of his friend who took his little boy to the beach for the first time. They lived in the country and the most water the little boy had ever seen was a small stream (they called it a "branch") that ran through their yard. When they arrived at the beach the father covered his son's eyes and led him down to the shore. When the little boy saw the ocean, he was silent for a moment and then said, "Good day, Daddy, what a branch!" -- Rev. Mike Ingo of Max Meadows, Virginia Debbie's granddaughter Alexis, 3, asked why Poppaw had to go to work every day. Debbie said, "He has to earn money." Alexis quickly replied, "Oh, so he can buy me toys!" -- Debbie of Tuscaloosa, Alabama , /| .-'`| .--. \\ |o o| ( -, \ \\| - | .'o \| \ \ (_., '.________.-. | |\\ \ \ | | . | \| \ ______ /_/ ; | ; ||| ||| / | \ ||| ||| jgs /___|___\ //_| //_| One day Alexis was being rowdy and Debbie told her she needed to behave. Without missing a beat, Alexis said, "I am have, Grammy!" When Jeanne's son was 4, they lived in a small apartment house on the ground floor. One day some friends were talking with Vince and they happened to mention that he had beautiful eyes. He replied, "They have to be bright so I can see through Mommy's dirty windows!" Vince is 31 now and Jeanne still chuckles! -- Jeanne Corrigan of Raleigh, North Carolina TJ, 5, had a ringworm. After taking his medicine for a couple of weeks, his mother told him it was not contagious anymore. Later, while talking to his aunt, he told her, "I have a ringworm but it's not conscious anymore." -- Vi Armstrong (grandmother of TJ) of Peekskill, New York _____ _.-'" "'-._ ,-".-. .-."-. ,' .-. .-. `, / / _\ / _\ \ .-. | | ( | | ( | | .-. .-----\ \ | '---' '---' | / /-----. :---- |--| ', ,' |--| ----: :---- '-`|--| ^"-.,_______,.-;^ |--|`-' ----: '---....' | _ `-' | '....---' | [ '-"-.-"-. | \ | .-. .-. | / `. | | | | | | ,' `._ [___]|__]|__] _,' `--.._____..--' / / \ \ jgs / / \ \ .---'"=="\ /"=="'---. ( | | ) '--------' '--------' Many years ago, Paula and her husband took his daughter to the ice follies. During intermission Jayna, 3, had to use the "potty". Paula had to help her lift up her dress and sit her on the potty. It was the first time she had ever used a public restroom. The facilities were stainless steel -- much colder and narrower than a home toilet. After she finished her business, she looked up at Paula with enormous eyes and said, "Please don't flush me down!" -- Paula Brenneman of Reno, Nevada On Memorial Day Linda took her grandaughters Alexis, 5, and her cousin Autumn, 5, for a walk to the cemetery. As they entered the cemetery, Alexis said to Autumn, "Look at all the flags on the gravys!" -- Linda Martelli of Springfield, Massachusetts Blake, 4, asked his grandfather if he could have something to drink. "What do you want to drink?" his grandfather asked. Blake replied "Something way, way good!" -- Michael Langford (grandfather of Blake) of Pierce City, Missouri , _..._ _.../|__ .' `. .' `~\/ : o _.-' '-._ o= : : `-._ _.-' : `. .' `. .' jgs `-...-' `-...-' Blake was looking at some pictures of himself and his two brothers. He pointed to Brennan, 5, and said, "Brennan is a really cool dude!" Then he looked at Cooper, 18 months, and said, "Cooper is a real cool guy!" Then he said, "And I am a really cool man. And I am the handsomest of them all!" Nickolas turned 10. At his party he and his friends were asking questions about a book that one boy had given as a gift. They asked him questions about sword fights and different characters. Then one boy, Charlie, asked, "Is there any romance involved?" It was unclear as to whether he thought that would be a positive or a negative. -- Michelle (mother of Nickolas) in Southern California .-..-. (-o/\o-) /`""``""`\ \ /.__.\ / \ `--` / `)..(' , /::::\ , |'.\::::/.'| _| ';::;' |_ (::) || (::) _. "| || |" _(:) '. || .' /::\ '._||_.' \::/ /::::\ /:::\ \::::/ _\:::/ /::::\_.._ _.._ _.._ _.._/::::\ \::::/::::\/::::\/::::\/::::\::::/ jgs `""`\::::/\::::/\::::/\::::/`""` `""` `""` `""` `""` A 4-year-old and a 6-year-old presented their mother with a house plant. They had used their own money and she was thrilled. The 6-year-old said with a sad face, "There was a bouquet that we wanted to give you. It was real pretty but it was too expensive. It had a ribbon on it that said 'Rest in Peace' and we thought it would be just perfect since you are always asking for a little peace so that you can rest!" -- Lois Hetmansperger of Auburn, Indiana ========================================================== >-->From Our Friend Jacinto :) | \ | / \_|_/ .' '. / _ _ \ | / ` / ` | | \_0 \_0 | _ _ \ .---. / ___/\/ \/ \_'/ \'____________ \ \/\_/\_/ \ / / ) '---' ( / GOD \ \ LOVES / ) YOU!! _ _ ( /jgs__________________/\/ \/ \__\ | | | \/\_/\_/ |_ | _| | | | |___|___| /--'Y'--\ (___/ \___) >Thoughtful Sentences! The best pair in the world is smile and cry. They won’t meet each other at a time. If they meet, that is the best moment in your life...... Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you to discover who you are & what life can bring in own afford & challenging one self Integrity wherever can be great Experience also at times ....!!! 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