Exhausting Monday

I guess this is more of a prayer than anything. I guess if today is any news of the week, then this one is going to be hell. So, I just wanted to get to get some of my frustrations out right now, instead of bottling them up. So, if you read this, just pray for me at the end for patience, hope, love, strength and general well being. Thanks for all of the thoughts!

Shalom!

Sermon this morning.....

I really enjoyed Jim's sermon this morning. I guess I should bring a pen from now on when I go to "big" church. He mentions the best things. He had four good points for any Father and/or Graduate. He mentions the bulletin beginning, "The more a child becomes aware of a father's willingness to listen, the more a father will begin to hear." And, along with Jim, I think this is so true with alot of things. The more we hear what other people have to say, the more they will listen to us.

Shalom!

I always like this one.....

"But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you...."



I think that is so true.



Bonus points for if someone can name the movie (without goggling it)......

Some cool quotes I found......

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself,"Lillian, you
should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)



I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalog: - "No good in a bed, but
fine against a wall." - Eleanor Roosevelt



Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen.
I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that
statement. - Mark Twain



The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. - George Burns



Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. -
Victor Borge



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -
Mark Twain



By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if
you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates



I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho
Marx



My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she
stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante



I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa
Gabor



Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine



My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield



Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant
form of misery. - Spike Milligan



Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP. - Joe Namath



I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time
for my nap. - Bob Hope



I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in
it. - W. C. Fields



We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its
way through Congress. - Will Rogers



Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will
avoid you. - Winston Churchill



Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts
to wear out, fall out, or spread out. - Phyllis Diller



By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go
anywhere. - Billy Crystal

Humanity

Well, as I am home from the Padres game, and I have had a couple of drinks during the Padres game and a couple of them after the Padres game and before/during the Lakers game. I turned on the TV, and after a couple of shows, the X-Men 2 came on . One of the quotes came on in the beginning intriged me. It says, "...Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute." How very true, if you don't mind me saying. I agree with what they say, but in a different way. Let's take it from a Christian point of view. Sharing the word of God with someone who doesn't believe in the same things you do? Who doesn't think the way you do? Or, should people in the church have a right to determine who should be in the church and who shouldn't? Should people have a right to question wheter someone is good enough to be in the church? Should gay people, homeless people, racist people be exculded from the church for what they belive in? WWJD? Would the Man upstairs turn these people away from the church because what they believed in? Would he walk across the street to get away from these kinds of people? NO! He would glady stay on the same side of the street and "heal" them. Once the word got out, poeple would flock to his word and follow him. Just the same, it should be the church to help these people out as much as possilbe, I guess. I don't know. I guess I might be rambling to a point. Anyway, let me know what you think. I might dwell on this further later in the week.

After much back spacing to correct miss-spelled words, and hitting the "ABC" sign to see if I "missed" something. Guess what the only words it came up with? Tune in next time?