Funny Friday Quote: Thirty Minutes to a Cleaner House Part 3

                                                                                                            Funny Friday Quote:  Thirty Minutes to a Cleaner House (Author Unknown)
 
You’re getting company in thirty minutes.  Your house is a mess.  What will you do?  Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the third session of Housekeeping Tips for Regular People.  If you’re not a Martha Stewart type of housekeeper, this column is not for you.  However, [...]

Created something of beauty and worth

Story and Quote of the day:  Created something of beauty and worth
From Inklings Vol. 2, No. 3, Helen Prejean, the nun whose experiences with death-row inmates led to the movie Dead Man Walking, talked recently about creativity:
In creating, we imitate God…To be a creator is part of what it means to be a human being.  [...]

Extinguish the Flames

Story of the day:  Extinguish the Flames
     The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that firefighters in Geona, Texas, were accused of deliberately setting more than forty destructive fires.  When caught, they stated, “We had nothing to do.  We just wanted to get the red lights flashing and the bells clanging.”
     The job of firefighters is to [...]

Faith

Story of the day:  Faith
Imagine a family of mice who lived all their lives in a large piano.  To them in their piano-world came the music of the instrument, filling all the dark spaces with sound and harmony.  At first the mice were impressed by it.  They drew comfort and wonder from the thought that [...]

From Discouragement to Hope

Quote of the day:  From Discouragement to Hope
There are so many words that come to mind when I think of the word discouragement.  Some that I thought of immediately were:  sadness, despair, melancholy, loss of confidence, the blues, and pessimism.  There are many reasons that people become discouraged.  I was reading an excerpt from Billy Graham, and [...]

Pulling Teeth

Story of the day:  Pulling Teeth
Didn’t you love pulling your teeth as a child?  Once my teeth began to show signs of a wiggle, I was right in there with my tissue paper, trying to get it out.  If it was really lodged in there and I didn’t have time to use a tissue (mostly because [...]

Resentment towards another, not healthy!

Story of the day:  Resentment towards another, not healthy!
I have found myself in situations where a person I feel has intentionally tried to sabotage my happiness.  Bitterness towards the person began to set in and I found myself asking God to honor my passions in life.  But as the negative thoughts raced through my mind, I found [...]

Funny Friday Quote-Thirty Minutes to a Cleaner House

Funny Friday Quote:  Thirty Minutes to a Cleaner House (Author Unknown)
You’re getting company in thirty minutes.  Your house is a mess.  What will you do?
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the second session of Housekeeping Tips for Regular People.  If you’re not a Martha Stewart type of housekeeper, this column is not for you.  However, for the [...]

A Constant Noise

Story of the day:  A Constant Noise
I was reading an amazing story from a book by Ken Jones, titled When You’re All Out of Noodles.  In this book, he talks about a lesson that he learned one day at the office.  He writes:
When I walked into my office, I noticed something that I had never [...]

Soar as Eagles

Story and Quote of the day:  Soar as Eagles
The Eagle is differentiated from other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, and heavier head and bill.  Eagles, with their magnificent flight, soar high among mountain tops.  Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote:
There are believers who, by God’s grace , have climbed the mountains of [...]