Why did the UNC* med student take a red magic marker to class?
In case she had to draw some blood.
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Dear Howdy;
Last week my father was in a real bad accident, air lifted by helicopter to ER at Orlando Regional Medical Center. While having a complete body scan several discoveries were made, several broken ribs and an aneurysm in the aorta/abdominal area. Doctors are saying that it is a real miracle that he is still alive. It could have ruptured with the impact because of the markings made by the seat belt. They are waiting to let him get stronger so they can operate. I reminded my Dad over the phone that all the landscaping, janitorial work done unto the Lord in his church and people ministered to on his job. God is pleased, honoring it with blessings and in a little bit longer time to continue to do the Lord's work. He is home today!! Thank God!!! He loves and serves the Lord!!!!
Truly I am humbled and so grateful to have the Lord in my life.... Going through His Word and my daily devotionals they are so right on that I have been experiencing God in so many ways. Hallelujah!!! When we are really still in God; the events taking place I am experiencing and I know Our God is taking care of all of us.
Howdy, I have been saving the newsletters to read them when I can focus and the last one I went through was tremendous. Thank you, Thank you so so much. I continue to pray for you & yours!!!
Many Many, Many, Blessings to All;
Please forgive my lack of participation, I promise to get to the newsletters real soon, ok.
I was very pregnant, and it was rotten luck when, several days before my due date, my husband fell from the porch roof, sprained both ankles and was restricted to crutches. So when I went into labor and he couldn't drive, I took the wheel, stopping every time I had a contraction.
Finally, we got to the hospital. I dropped him at the maternity entrace, and he hobbled off to the admitting desk, where the nurse told him to go to the emergency room.
I was eavesdropping on two sophomores sitting behind me on the school bus when they started talking about a trip to Switzerland. The first student asked the second whether she had enjoyed the beautiful scenery.
"Not really," came the reply. "I couldn't see much because of all the mountains in the way."
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. PHILIPPIANS 1:9-11
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As a musical composition, Frederick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus," stands in a category by itself. Few pieces of music have the power to stir our hearts like that majestic chorus that even brought the King of England to his feet the first time he heard it. But before Frederick Handel wrote the "Hallelujah Chorus" and "The Messiah" oratorio of which it's a part, he wasn't having much of a hallelujah time. He was basically broke, depressed, and against a wall. Then someone asked him to write an oratorio to be performed at this benefit concert on behalf of people who were in debtors prison - locked up because they were too poor to pay their bills. There were 700 people who contributed to be at that premiere performance of "The Messiah" and the "Hallelujah Chorus" - and 128 prisoners went free as a result!
That night of hallelujahs turned Frederick Handel's life around and it set some people free. Hallelujahs still have that power today. It's the power of praising God; especially when it's hard to praise Him.
Turning our predicament and our prison into praise is part of the mission for which Jesus came as announced in Isaiah 61:1-3, our word for today from the Word of God. The Bible says of Jesus: "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners ... to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion. To bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair."
I like those trade-ins, don't you? Jesus says He wants to trade our bondages for freedom, our mourning for comfort, our ugly ashes for something beautiful, and our despair for praise. And liberation from so much that's dark in life is rooted in wearing that garment of praise, no matter what situation we're in. Praise can set you free from discouragement, self-pity, frustration, bitterness, even grief. And, on any given day, there's always something to praise Him for. It's like we're always living between these two mountains - the one behind you that He brought you over and the one ahead of you that looks impossible just like that last mountain did. So, on any given day, there's always something to praise Him for, and there's always something to trust Him for.
My friend Kerri kept months of vigil at the hospital as she watched her young husband die a long, painful death. But she never sank to despair, and I think I know why. She said, "Every day on the way to the hospital, I would play praise music as loud as I could. I filled up on praise - because I knew there's only one place the devil will never be - in praise to God." Kerri understands that praise is a choice - you choose to dwell on the greatness of your God rather than the greatness of your problems, on the God who never lets you down instead of the people who do, on God's faithfulness instead of your failure. You make a choice, usually in the very first moments of your day, to be all about Jesus today rather than all about you.
That way you can experience pain without being a pain. You can walk on the water instead of succumbing to the storm. Praise doesn't just lift up the Lord, it has a way of lifting you up, too. And it's a choice - praising instead of complaining; hallelujahs instead of hassles; the Lord instead of the load. And why can your life always be a Hallelujah Chorus? Because your Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords, and He shall reign forever and ever! Ron Hutchcraft
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There were two students working for UNC tp help pay their tuition.
One would dig a hole. He would dig, dig, dig, the other would come behind him and fill the hole, fill, fill, fill. These two men worked furiously. One digging a hole, the other filling it up again.
A man was watching from the sidewalk and couldn't believe how hard these men were working, but couldn't understand what they were doing. Finally he had to ask them.
He said to the hole digger, "I appreciate how hard you work, but what are you doing? You dig a hole and your partner comes behind you and fills it up again!"
The hole digger replied, "Oh yeah, must look funny, but the guy who plants the trees is sick today."