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SERMON: Ten Ways To Improve Your Relationships |
No one person is an island. We all need friendships. Decide with whom you can share fellowship and devote yourself to those few regardless of feelings, setbacks or circumstances. How can we survive life's setbacks without the affirming fellowship, support and mutual protections of our friends?
A man once asked Henry Ford, "Who is your best friend?" Ford said, "Your best friend is he or she who helps you bring out of yourself the best of that which is in you."
An awkward statement but read it over again carefully and slowly.
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EDITORIAL: Do Drugs Kill More Than Pain?
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How much do drugs to kill pain, destroy our brains? If you smoke long enough you will probably get lung cancer or emphysema. If you drink enough alcohol and long enough your kidneys and your liver will probably let you know they are troubled.
Nicotine and alcohol are both relaxants, killing the pain of living in this difficult world. But what about the drugs we take for real pain? A dental procedure, an in-office internal exploration? How exactly do these necessary drugs dull or kill our pain?
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OPINION: What If Hitler...?
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I love what ifs. And for people who believe in a powerful, focused and merciless God, how good was Hitler for the world?
What if Hitler had been assassinated in 1936? Would we all be better off today?
Let's start supposing. Hitler is killed and millions of deaths in Europe are what?
Himmler takes over? He's meaner than Hitler but has no panache, no public personality, no mystical unifying force.
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GOOD NEWS: Acceptance
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Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you'll be doing the best you can... Jean Callahan
Acceptance of one's life means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier
I’ve gone from reluctance to acceptance to gung ho. Grace Bumbry
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Russell Lynes
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FICTION: Micah's Miracle, Part Two Of Three
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Young Micah was Mrs. Fishkins's real problem child. He was the youngest child, only five, and not old enough to go to school, Jonah was ten and in the third grade. He sold newspapers after school rather than work in the butcher shop, because he said he didn't like meat. He planned to be a vegetarian when he grew up, but I don't know whether he became one or not.
Jonah was a very bright boy for his age, though, He got all A's in
school. The oldest Fishkin child was Esther, who was sixteen. She
had quit school, not being very bright, and worked in a small factory, making rosary beads.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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My husband is fighting in a war and has been for over eighteen months. This Sunday at church, my minister quoted scripture to support the war. This shook my faith to think we are fighting and killing in the name of God. I am so confused. Can this be right?
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust |
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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."
Francis Bacon |
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight David Eisenhower |
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"Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another."
H. L. Mencken |
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"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, "No" -- who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside -- will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies."
Alexander Maclaren |
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
Henry Ford |
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"The poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard. "
Ecclesiastes 9:16 |
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"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence, but the manifestation of human compassion"
Dalai Lama |
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"Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you, but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion, and thankful in prayer."
The Desert Fathers |
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"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
Carol Burnett |
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