(Potentially) Profound Thoughts

Happy Easter!!!

"What do we do now"..."? .dot, .dot, .dot???

We proclaim and share our FAITH with our Bretheren that JESUS' RESURRECTION IS TRUE! Christ has RISEN... RISE-UP Have Faith , Courage, and Hope - Proclaim your Faith as this is just the BEGINNING"..." (dot, dot, dot)! Happy Easter & God Bless

(Note: The "..." dot, dot, dot = an Elipsis which means MORE IS COMING...)

Wisdom and intelligence have little in common. The best explanation of the Christmas Story I ever heard was from a mentally challenged boy who rides the church bus. I wish I had recorded it. It was so elegantly simple, but so insightful.

If we as believers stopped trying to prove we are right and started sharing the real gospel
The whole world would transform

For real!



Sometimes the best fun looks like total boredom to an outside observer.

"Another time around the circle
Try to make it better than the last..."

I am the light, I am the darkness, I am the Bendu.

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Bible study tomorrow morning

God created that baby

"Wouldn't you like to be young and strong, with a twenty year old body again?"
"Not if it meant I'd have to go back to diggin' ditches."

We fear death and we mourn the loss of ability as we get older, but the more I think about it the more I think it's a mercy. Immortality is designed for a perfect world. If I had to live forever in THIS world I think I'd go stark raving mad after the first hundred years or so.

Even the few hundred years that the first humans lived in a relatively fresh world, where sin was still new, would be too long in this modern world. It might be a blessing that our lives were reduced to 70-ish years. I don't think I could take much more than that.

—The secret of life is this: COWS DON’T GIVE MILK!

A father used to say to his children when they were young: —When you all reach the age of 12 I will tell you the secret of life. One day when the oldest turned 12, he anxiously asked his father what was the secret of life. The father replied that he was going to tell him, but that he should not reveal it to his brothers.

—The secret of life is this: The cow does not give milk. "What are you saying?" Asked the boy incredulously. —As you hear it, son: The cow does not give milk, you have to milk it. You have to get up at 4 in the morning, go to the field, walk through the corral full of manure, tie the tail, hobble the legs of the cow, sit on the stool, place the bucket and do the work yourself.
That is the secret of life, the cow does not give milk. You milk her or you don't get milk. There is this generation that thinks that cows GIVE milk. That things are automatic and free: their mentality is that if "I wish, I ask..... I obtain."

"They have been accustomed to get whatever they want the easy way...But no, life is not a matter of wishing, asking and obtaining. The things that one receives are the effort of what one does. Happiness is the result of effort. Lack of effort creates frustration."

So, share with your children from a young age the secret of life, so they don't grow up with the mentality that the government, their parents, or their cute little faces is going to give them everything they need in life.

Remember
"Cows don't give milk; you have to work for it."

~Author Unknown

Kind of like a saying I once heard:

"Sure the world owes you a living, but you gotta get out there and get it."

I have learned I can be honest, sincere... and still wrong. I have also learned that how I react to finding out I'm wrong defines what kind of person I become.

I can of course research the issue and find out whether I really am wrong, and how to be right. That's the logical way. But it's never pleasant to find out I'm wrong. Surely there are other ways...

I could just ignore the matter.

Hang on, come back! I just remembered something else I'm right about!

I could also just stick to my guns and rally any arguments I can scrounge up to support my claim that I'm right. This is a great time for that, because I can find "proof" online to back up anything I want to believe.

But I have learned I should be very careful which way I choose to react when I find out I'm wrong. My choice will define me, and I'll have to live with the result for the rest of my life.

Hoping Memorial Day helps us to remember...

I was listening to a song about a guy who slept around: "Sometimes he tries to imagine / What it would be like / To be pure and innocent / On his wedding night"

Then I started thinking about the innocence of not knowing some things. Do you ever wonder if God wished He didn't know what Adam didn't know when in Eden?

God knew why He made the lion's teeth so sharp. Even if Adam noticed the teeth, he would not have thought anything about it. There was no such thing as animals killing other animals then. Adam would not have associated sharp teeth with anything bad for the same reason a blind man doesn't associate "yellow" with a color. But God knew.

Ever wonder if God wished He didn't know?

I remember in II Kings chapter 8, where the prophet starts crying and tells a man he will be the next king of Syria. The man is puzzled, and even more puzzled when the prophet tells him all the killing and pillaging of Israel he will do in the future.

Ever wonder if God just wants to cry when He thinks about some things that will come?

Maybe it's a blessing we don't know the future. Maybe He doesn't show us all we want to know about the future because He doesn't want us to have to cry about the bad parts too.