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Dear Howdy,
Here's something a friend who has cancer sent me the other day--I thought it might be good for you to stick in with your other more serious quotes...
"We are leaving the land of the dying and going to the land of the living. As we lay dying we are almost well. All of us will live forever. The question is "Where"... Powerful words which bear a lot of thought."
Keep up the good work, Rachel (Europe)
************************* Please note: If you see a UNC student or a liberal reading 'Thought & Humor', please explain to them which is thought & which is humor. They always get it backwards....... *************************
To err is human, but it's against school policy.
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Love never gives up:
Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut. Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always 'me first', Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end..."
{"Way of Love" described in 1 Corinthians 13}
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Things That Take Years to Learn ---------------------------------- The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
This year's Renewing Your Passion Conference will soon be here--just about two months away. I am so excited about this opportunity to fellowship with you and share stories of the Lord's amazing work in Asia. I believe your life will truly be impacted.
Loretta Robinson is a dear sister who attended last year's Renewing Your Passion Conference. Click the link below to read what the Lord did in her life as a result, and what she says to those considering attending this year's conference. http://www.gfa.org/newsupdate041806?motiv=WA64-G1LP
I pray that the Lord will richly bless you and daily draw you closer to Himself.
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Don't you sometimes wish you could see the world as little kids see it at least for a little while? It's so refreshing to hear their perspectives on things, expressed simply - expressed very directly. I was blessed recently by an observation made by my three-year-old granddaughter. A friend asked her, "What's your granddad up to these days?" To which she simply replied: "Oh, he's getting taller." I am? I hope she's right. I think I'll go measure.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "A Bigger God Than Ever."
I wish my granddaughter was right. Unfortunately, I am, in spite of whatever she meant by that wonderful observation, just as vertically challenged as I've ever been. But her comment brought to mind a memorable conversation from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia is a magical land where the animals talk and where a majestic lion named Aslan in the ultimate king. Those stories offer some powerful analogies of our experience with Jesus, the One the Bible calls "the Lion of the Tribe of Judah."
In one story, Lucy, one of the children, has not seen Aslan for a long time. When she does, there's a very tender reunion. And Lucy asks, "Aslan, have you gotten bigger?" To which Aslan replies, "Oh, no my child, you have. And the more you grow, the bigger I will seem." That's exactly how God intends for it to be as we grow in our relationship with Him. Our God seems to get bigger and bigger as we grow. My granddaughter may think I'm getting taller. I'm not. And God, of course, doesn't get bigger, but He wants us to see more and more how big He really is. The bigger your God is, the bigger things you will believe Him for; the bigger your life can be. We have, for too long, allowed our problems and our pain to loom so large that they have obscured the greatness of our God who is so much bigger than the things that are bigger than we are. They're like my thumb blocking the view of the sun; the small thing blocking my view of something massive.
In fact, God plans our life-journey in such a way that we will see more and more of what an awesome God He is. He sends or allows things in our life that cause us to need Him more than ever, so we'll reach for Him more than ever; so we'll see Him as never before. Let's look at a memorable example in Exodus 14, beginning with verse 13. It's our word for today from the Word of God. God's people have the Red Sea in front of them and the mightiest army on earth behind them. God announces, "I will gain glory for Myself through Pharaoh and all his army." Facing one of history's greatest "Mission Impossible" moments, Moses tells the people: "Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Lord will fight for you ... the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord." God parted the waters, His people walked through on dry land, and waters came together then and drowned the Egyptian army.
And the Bible says, "Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: 'The Lord is highly exalted ... the Lord is my strength and my song ... the Lord is a warrior; the Lord is His name ... Who among the gods is like You, O Lord? ... majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders." How did they discover the majesty of the God they belonged to? Through something so big, so overwhelming, that only God could do it. How will you discover what an awesome God you have? The same way.
And that may explain some of the "why" of what you're facing right now. It is God's plan to grow your view of Him through challenges that are bigger than your resources but not bigger than His. He may be putting you through something that is stretching your faith in Him far beyond anything you've ever trusted Him for, but it's all part of the plan to give you a front row seat on the greatness of your God, to blow the lid off your relationship with Him, and to teach you the unshakeable peace of being able to say, "God's God and I'm not."
You haven't even begun to see the glory and power of the God you belong to. You need some very big mountains to see what a very big God you have. So don't frustrate over the challenge you're facing. Celebrate it as your ticket to that front row seat on the glory of God. Because the more you grow, the bigger He will be.
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