NOW

If you have hard work to do,

Do it now.

Today the skies are clear and blue,

Tomorrow clouds may come in view,

Yesterday is not for you;

Do it now.

If you have a song to sing,

Sing it now.

Let the notes of gladness ring

Clear as song of bird in spring,

Let every day some music bring;

Sing it now.

If you have kind words to say,

Say them now.

Tomorrow may not come your way.

Do a kindness while you may;

Loved ones will not always stay;

Say them now.

If you have a smile to show,

Show it now.

Make hearts happy, roses grow,

Let the friends around you know

The love you have before they go;

Show it now.

- unknown.

Friday Funnies - Mother's Day

WHAT MOTHER TAUGHT ME

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL

DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just

finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will

come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't

straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC. "Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of

that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear

clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give

you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut

your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you

look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there

until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of

yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12 My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you

once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought

you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.

"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions

of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful

parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait

until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going

to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't

stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't

you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR. "When that lawn mower

cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.

"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that

door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my

age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, & I hope they turn out just like you!"


Thanks Mom,

Gossip and Gloom

I have recently received an unsolicited email of an evil report against another. When I tried to verify the stories the coward would not answer my simple questions.

So,

GOSSIP AND GLOOM

Gossip and Gloom
Are bothers-in-woe,
Whatever they say
Know it’s not so.

Gossip and Gloom
Are in a bad way,
Pray do not believe
A word that they say.

Gossip and Gloom
On mischief are bent,
Their foolish opinions
Are not worth a cent.

Gossip and Gloom
Do things on the sly,
They secretly whisper
And most often lie.

Gossip and Gloom
Are not good for you,
With such busybodies
Have nothing to do.

- unknown.

The Crowd Was Wrong

Adam Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Eighteenth Century, was the first American to fill a bathtub. People became alarmed; Doctors predicted that rheumatism and inflammation of the lungs would follow such practice. Some cities placed a ban on bathtubs. The authorities even refused to grant permission for citizens to do the “new-fangled exercise.” But today a home is not complete without a tub or shower. The crowd was wrong.

Fulton believed in his efforts. He believed a steamboat could be a workable thing. But “Fulton’s folly” was the name the crowed gave to that first steamboat, and yet, giant steamships cross the seven seas. Again the crowd was wrong.

Goodyear and his wife worked tirelessly for eleven years on vulcanizing rubber. People laughed at Goodyear. They said he was foolish to work so untiringly and so long at a task that could only end in failure, but the name “Goodyear” is known around the world today. Again the crowd was wrong.

“Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” (Matthew 27:22-29)

Pilate’s wife had said, “Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him” (Matthew 27:19) (God always has a witness, even in the darkest hour.) Pilate should have heeded the advice of his wife. But he did not have the courage enough to stand up for his own convictions. Mrs. Pilate was right. The crowd was wrong.

Jesus said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13, 14). He said the crowd is wrong.

Do not go the way of the crowd. Do not listen to the crowd. Go the way of the Cross. It is the NARROW WAY, but it leads to life eternal!

Web Addict Survivors

1) I will have a cup of coffee in the morning and read my newspaper
like I use to, before the Web.

2) I will eat breakfast with a knife and fork and not with one hand
typing.

3) I will get dressed before noon.

4) I will make an attempt to clean the house, wash clothes, and plan
dinner before even thinking of the Web.

5) I will sit down and write a letter to those unfortunate few
friends and family that are Web-deprived.

6) I will call someone on the phone who I cannot contact via the
Web.

7) I will read a book...if I still remember how.

8) I will listen to those around me and their needs and stop telling
them to turn the TV down so I can hear the music on the Web.

9) I will not be tempted during TV commercials to check for email.

10) I will try and get out of the house at least once a week, if it
is necessary or not.

11) I will remember that my bank is not forgiving if I forget to
balance my checkbook because I was too busy on the Web.

12) Last, but not least, I will remember that I must go to bed
sometime ... and the Web will always be there tomorrow!

Friday Funnies - Backward Christian Soldier

BACKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER--Cranny Fosby

Backward Christian soldiers, fleeing from the fight,
With the cross of Jesus clearly out of sight:
Christ our rightful Master stands against the foe,
But forward into battle we are chicken to go.

Like a mighty tortoise moves the church of God;
Brothers we are treading where we've often trod,
We are much divided, many bodies we,
Having different doctrines, not much charity.

Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
But the Church of Jesus hidden does remain;
Gates of hell should never "gainst that Church prevail,
We have Christ's own promise, but think that it will fail.

Sit here, then, ye people, join our useless throng;
Blend with ours your voices in a feeble song.
Blessings, ease, and comfort, ask from Christ the King.
With our modern thinking, we won't do a thing.

It Is Time To Repent!!!

Have you ever held a newborn baby? My heart melts as I smell their breath, feel the little squirms, and listen to the sounds! But America, rewind our history to the recent past and a president (and about half the country that endorsed him) said it is okay to tear them apart if it is ten seconds before birth! Friends, this is the kind of sin that makes Heaven and earth flee away from the wrath of God! We are no better that our baby-butcher cousins, Pharoah in the OT and Herod in the New! When politicians cannot be trusted in word or conduct here; how can we think to trust them abroad? Hillery’s key role as First Lady was to promote abortions, stopping growth in third world countries! It was not enough just here. Abortion at any stage is murder, only forgivable through another mutilated body and blood of another Child, the Son of God!

AMERICAN SINS

Picture a conduit draining American sin to the lowest point in the country, Death Valley:

From San Francisco (and others) flows the lousy perversion of sodomy.

From Las Vegas (and others) flows the filthy corruption of gambling.

From Washington DC flows a self-seeking, bipartisan hatred for anything godly.

From New Orleans flows euphoria with the depravity of the Mardi Gras.

From “Al Gore’s internet” flows the wickedness of every known kind of perversion to man.

Have you become irritated or inoculated to the wickedness in this place? More examples: Veto the Ten Commandments, an epidemic of child abuse, demonic music, psychic delusion, religious fraud, video violence, scandalous lawyers, twisted judges, the grip of the politically correct, “technicalities” in prosecution, irresponsible education, lobbying scams, Civil Liberties Union, racial profile spin, a fascination for the dark side . . . –- VERDICT: GUILTY! Vexes my soul!!!

Death Valley is a truly beautiful place but for illustration, American sin is flowing to the bottom side of hell! And then what? Hollywood pumps it back into the cable networks and beams it up to satellites in the skies and features it in movie theaters, corrupting people across the face of the earth! This Death Valley Programming from the cesspool, sewers, and septic of American sin is a stench before Almighty God!

BUT FRIEND, HERE’S HOPE!

Why does God bless America, as He definitely has! People claim, “God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah unless . . .” What a foolish remark! You better know God has to apologize to no-one, He will judge as He sees fit, and you’d better not misrepresent Him or hold Him hostage! God destroyed Sodom; yet there are major differences. I discover the sweetest, God-honoring Christian people from coast to coast who love God and actively turn from sin. Friend, that is in America! Sodom did not have that. And sometimes we fail, but our policy has been pro-Israel to this point. God has been blessing America. It's all of His grace! “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Gen. 12:3)

I trust you hate the devil and that our sin vexes your soul, but never fail to love our American people! Someone has said that any old dead fish can float downstream with the current, but it takes a good live one to swim upstream. Swim for righteousness! Pray for this country! And the best way to love them is to show them a way out of our sin and its consequences; tell them of Jesus Christ!

Article submitted by Charlie Carle.