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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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"There are two kinds of people. The takers and the givers. The takers sometimes eat better but the givers always sleep better."
Danny Thomas |
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George S. Patton |
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow - mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."
Mark Twain |
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"The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions."
Robert Brault |
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
Mahatma Gandhi |
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"To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want to play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful."
Anonymous |
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"In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and familiars -- by generosity, courtesy, and benevolence, by treating them as he treats himself, and by being as good as his word."
Buddha |
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"The mere sense of living is joy enough."
Emily Dickenson |
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"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
Joe Paterno |
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"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
Norman Vincent Peale |
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