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AROUND THE CORNER Around the corner I have a friend And I never see my old friend's face, And he rang mine if, we were younger then, "Tommorow" I say "I will call on Jim" Around the corner!- yet miles away, *** Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. Don't be afraid to express yourself. Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time, it might be too late. Seize the day. Never have regrets. And most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today. Pass this along to your friends. It could make a difference. The difference between doing all that you can or having regrets which may stay with you forever. Fools rush in where fools have been before. To avoid duplication, make three copies. It's called "Take Home" pay because you can't afford to go anywhere else with it. Success is relative; The greater the success, the more relatives. Anyone can be a winner . . . unless, of course, there's a second entry. The slower you work, the fewer mistakes you make. If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. If at first you succeed, try to hide your astonishment. You must have learned from others' mistakes. You haven't had time to think all those up yourself. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. People like criticism . . . just keep it positive and flattering. It's OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. When you're getting kicked from behind, that means you're in front. Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. The real reason you can't take it with you is that it goes before you do. Advertisement: "Let me do your income tax. I'll save you time (about 20 years)." Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them. Some people are like blisters. They don't show up until the work is done. A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Always give 100% at work....... 12% on Monday :-) SMILES ;-) Smiling is infectious, When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around WARNING! A new virus has been recently discovered. One person can
pass it on to Uh oh!! too late DEEP THOUGHT Bernard Meltzer BALANCE In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson,
CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one's other
commitments: They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How? Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as if they were your life, for without them, life is meaningless. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each other. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going. Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift--that's why we call it The Present. The road to success is not straight... There is a curve called failure... But... If you have a spare called determination...
Too Black They take my kindness for weakness They consider my uniqueness strange They see my confidence as conceit They consider my success accidental My questions mean I'm unaware Any praise is preferential treatment If I stand up for myself, I'm too defensive I'm deviant if I separate My character is constantly under attack The Devil's Convention Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!" "How shall we do this?", shouted his angels. "Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent un-numbered schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work." "Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical, contradicting music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ." "Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogs, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services, and false hopes." "Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to Amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and movies instead." "And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion." "Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause." It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there. Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge. How about this definition of Busy: Wow huh, makes one think..... Is this Jar Full? One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high powered overachievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz."Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?" Everyone in the class said, "Yes." Then he said, "Really?" He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space between the big rocks. Then he asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?" By this time the class was on to him. "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?" "No!" the class shouted. Once again he said, "Good." Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager beaver raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!" No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all." What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Your children....Your loved ones....Your education.... Your dreams....A worthy cause...Teaching or mentoring others....Doing things that you love....Time for yourself.....Your health....Your significant other. Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you'll never get them in at all. If you sweat the little stuff (the gravel, the sand) then you'll fill your life with little things you worry about that don't really matter, and you'll never have the real quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff (the big rocks). So, tonight, or in the morning, when you are reflecting on this short story, ask yourself this question: What are the 'big rocks' in my life? Then, put those in your jar first. Funny, isn't it? Funny how simple it is for people
to trash God and
- Rachel Moore Violence, the kind you see on television, is not honestly violent. There lies its harm.
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