Funny Friday Quote (What’s it stuffed with?)

Funny Friday Quote:  What’s it stuffed with? (Ron Dentinger)
     I remember one year we were invited to Grandma’s house for dinner.  Grandpa said, “This turkey tastes funny.  What did you stuff it with?”
     Grandma said, “I didn’t have to stuff it.  It wasn’t hollow.”
Bible verse of the day:  Psalm 16:1
“Preserve me, O God, for in [...]

Joy

Story of the day:  Joy
     Sherwood Wirt wrote in Jesus, Man of Joy, about a conversation that he had with C.S. Lewis.  He says, “there is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters, too much speaking in holy tones.  The tragic loss in all this pious gamesmanship is to the individual in [...]

Are you pecking?

Story of the day:  Are you pecking?
     I love to look at my grandparents who have been married over 55 years and wonder how they have done it and are still in love.  The way that they talk with one another, the way they still take care for each other.  When we had gone to visit [...]

Feeling imposed upon, overburdened, or overworked?

Story of the day:  Feeling imposed upon, overburdened, or overworked?
     “There was once an ant who felt imposed upon, overburdened, and overworked.  You see, he was instructed to carry a piece of straw across an expanse of concrete.  The straw was so long and heavy that he staggered beneath its weight and felt he would [...]

Testing Limits

Story of the day:  Testing Limits
     While traveling around the country, bigger vehicles such as:  semi trucks, tractor trailers, and other wide load vehicles, always seem to catch my attention.  I especially notice them more in states where the roads aren’t very well taken care of.  Every pot hole that we hit, or bump that would catapult our car seemed to [...]

Funny Friday Quote: Blindside Driving

Story of the day:  Blindside Driving
“A couple of morons pooled their bankrolls and bought a little second-hand car.  They went driving up the mountains, going around corners and dangerous curves at sixty miles an hour.  Finally one moron couldn’t stand it any longer.  “Every time you go around one of those harpin bends so fast, [...]

“Dead Men Walking”

Story of the day:  “Dead Men Walking”
     I love what Dr. Tony Evans had to say in a letter that he sends out as part of a ministry outreach.  He says, “One of the most powerful stories about Jesus comes to us by way of a dead man.
     Lazarus, a close friend of Jesus, had [...]

Confession

Story of the day:  Confession
     In The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, the cartoon character Calvin says to his tiger friend, Hobbes, “I feel bad that I called Susie names and hurt her feelings.  I’m sorry I did it.”
     “Maybe you should apologize to her,” Hobbes suggests.
     Calvin ponders this for a moment [...]

Contentment

Story of the day:  Contentment
     The Hope Health Letter (10/95) included this story:
     “Once upon a time, there was a man who lived with his wife, two small children, and his elderly parents in a tiny hut.  He tried to be patient and gracious, but the noise and crowded conditions wore him down.
     In desperation, [...]

Encouragement

Story of the day:  Carol Porter
     For years William Wilberforce published Britain’s Parliament to abolish slavery.  Discouraged, he was about to give up.  His elderly friend, John Wesley, heard of it and from his deathbed called for pen and paper.
     With trembling hand, Wesley wrote:  “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, [...]