HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

From our family to yours, we want to wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!
Jeff, Christy, Christen, Jeffrey, and Joshua!!

“God” Mindset (Mon/Tues Quote)

Story of the day:  “God” Mindset
Roger von Oech in his book, A kick in the Seat of the Pants, suggests:
Take a look around where you’re sitting and find five things that have blue in them.  Go ahead and do it.
With a “blue” mindset, you’ll find that blue jumps out at you:  a blue book on [...]

Funny Friday Quote: Surgery

Funny Friday Quote: Surgery
A man was still a little groggy from the anesthesia after surgery.  His wife was sitting at his bedside.  As his eyes fluttered open, he murmured, “You’re beautiful.”  Then he fell asleep.
A few hours later, he woke up, looked at his wife and said, “You’re cute.”
“What happened to ‘beautiful’?” she asked.
“I guess [...]

Hanging On

Story of the day:  Hanging On
Christen had to have four teeth removed yesterday.  As she sat in the chair, I could see the anxiety on her face and her mind thinking about all the things that were going to happen.  As tears began to well up inside, I immediately prayed with her and asked God [...]

Black Gold

Story of the day:  Black Gold
In Moody magazine, John H. Timmerman writes:
In the back corner of my yard, partitioned by a rose bed and a 40-year old lilac bush, rests a pile, 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high–my compost pile.  Old-fashioned chicken wire stapled to well-anchored stakes holds it in place. [...]

Type “Freedom” License

                                                                                                                                                   Story of the day:  Type Freedom License
Christen will be getting her license soon and I began thinking about driving licenses and the freedom that comes from driving.  Jeff and I have been gearing up and preparing ourselves for the time that she will hit the open road.  I will be sure to let all [...]

“Makin’ Sumthin’ 4 you”

Story of the day:  “Makin’ Sumthin’ 4 you”
In Discipleship Journal, Paul Thigpen writes:
I remember coming home one afternoon to discover that the kitchen I had worked so hard to clean only a few hours before was now a terrible wreck.  my young daughter had obviously been busy “cooking,” and the ingredients were scattered, along with [...]

Funny Friday Quote: Test Grading

Funny Friday Quote:  Test Grading (Jim Kraus)
At a large college there was a star athlete who was academically challenged.  In one of his classes he sat beside a straight A student.  The professor suspected that the athlete was cheating, but she didn’t have actual evidence.
Grading the midterm exam, she saw that for question number 10, [...]

Step out and smile

Story of the day:  Step out and smile
Ruth Ryan, wife of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, had one moment she looked forward to in every one of her husbands’ games.  In Covering Home, she writes:
It probably happened the first time on the high-school baseball diamond in Alvin, Texas, in the mid-1960’s.  Then it happened [...]

Love is found in many ways

Story of the day:  Love is found in many ways
In Rhythms of the Heart, Phil Hook writes:
My mother and I did not “mix.”  I chose a typical teenage solution to the problem–silence.
I would leave for school in the morning, come home to eat, then leave again.  When I was finally home late at night, I [...]