Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

You know you have played too much Fantasy Sports when.....

You come up with a Fantasy Spirit Helpers prayer vigil idea.

The way it works is everyone picks 3 Spirit Helpers and then you go around and have prayer vigil and see how many prayers your guys helped out on.

The sleeper picks were Ruth and Billy Bojangles, Trevor cleaned up on those two alone.

or

if you come up with a Car Litnessing game where you try to name athletes or coaches that start with a certain letter, you start at A and work your way through the alphabet. We played for 4 days and still haven't finished the alphabet, Actually we spent an entire day on M alone.

Kids

You don't realize how slick they are until you don't see them for awhile.

To those Born 1930 to 1968

I read this and thought it was pretty amusing, ..but then you have to be in your 40's and 50's to really really get it! It's a bit long, but a bit of a peek into our parent's world! It just shows what a "fear based" society the world has now become:

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

Shine Through

Tis light makes color visible; at night
Red, green and russet vanish from thy sight.
So too the light by darkness is made known.
All hid things by their contraries are shown.

Indeed without the thorn, there would be no rose. Without the battle there would be no victory. Without experiencing the hardships, we would not build endurance. Without going through the disappointments of life,we would not know the Lord's unspeakable joy. Without His death, we would not have known the depth of His great love for us. Something to think about next time you are going through a hard time.
--Promise