TALK TO THE SHEPHERD If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd. From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California - This is an excerpt from the poem "When I Can't Sleep" in the October…
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LAWYER LAWS Having Lawyers create laws is like having doctors create diseases.
GREATER KNOWLEDGE It is not the knowledge of many facts that enriches and satisfies the mind, but rather inwardly to savor and relish the truth. -- Ignatious Loyola
COMPLETE OR FINISHED A young man who was considering marriage spoke to his father about marriage: "Dad, why did you marry Mom?" His father contemplated the question for a moment and said, "I guess I…
SOMEONE EATS THE JUNK Harry Balzer, vice president of an Illinois market-research firm found some troubling inconsistency between what people say about fast food. Upon reporting his research that three of the fastest-growing foods in…
A HORSE & A HOLE A couple were hiking across a mountain meadow when they came across an open hole. Wondering how deep the hole was, they began to throw rocks into the hole. When…
TOMORROW by Anna Laetitia Barbauld See where the falling day In silence steals away, Behind the western hills withdrawn; Her fires are quenched, her beauty fled, With blushes all her face o'erspread, As conscious she…
THERMOMETER OR THERMOSTAT The thermometer tells us the temperature; The thermostat sets the temperature. Which are you? From T. Parker, O'Fallon, Missouri
VARIABLE TEMRATURES A restaurant patron seemed particularly bothered about the temperature in the restaurant. He complained to his waiter that it was too cold and the waiter needed to turn down the air conditioner. The…
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY The next time someone asks you what you are thinking, just tell that person you were wondering why banks put Braille dots on the keypads of their drive-up ATMs? Answers like that will…
TOUGH NUT The mighty oak was simply a nut that held its ground. From T. Parker, O'Fallon, Missouri
GREATER GOALS When I was young, all I wanted was to be ruler of the universe. Now that isn't enough. -- Alex P. Keaton
WHERE PRAYER FOCUSES "I happen to believe that where prayer focuses, power falls." Harold G. Henricks in Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper
PASTOR KNOWS ALL A man awoke in a hospital and did not know who he was. He apparently had amnesia. When he woke up, he saw a woman in the hallway who was walking past…
CATTLE COMMITMENT It takes 3,000 cows to provide the leather for the 22,000 footballs used by the National Football League every year. We often don't think about the details and commitment required to produce the…
MAYO RUNS A CLINIC To be poor in spirit is to recognize our sin and need and then permit the riches of Christ to take effect in our lives. We are poor in spirit when…
DEAD PAN CHRISTIANS Once upon a time many church-goers suspected anything funny was subversive. Yesterday's pilgrim didn't dare to clown and Plymouth squeezed itself into a poker face. We're always photographed saying "cheese" but a…
TEACHER AS A SERVANT It seems in every class in school there is one person who stands out. A person who has much less in love, concern, or attention from home than any of the…
DELIGHTED LIGHTENING BUG Here is a "bright" opening: I am delighted to speak to you, today. Like the lightening bug who backed into the fan. From T. Parker, O'Fallon, Missouri
If you can't take God with you, then don't go! From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California
