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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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"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men."
Ignazio Silone |
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
Todd Bellamare |
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"Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that that creature is a human being."
Kingsley-Miller |
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"A man is never more serious than when he praises himself."
Georg C. Lichtenberg |
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"To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame."
Sandra L. Douglas |
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"In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up."
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne |
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"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance."
The Laws Of Manu |
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"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
Francis Bacon |
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"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be."
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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"There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure."
Kyle Rote, jr. |
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