AMERICA WILL NEVER FORGET

KIDS IN CHURCH

3-year-old Reese:
'Our Father who does art in heaven,

Harold is his name..
Amen'

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A little boy was overheard praying:

'Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it,

I'm having a real good time like I am.'

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After the christening of his baby brother in church,

Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car.

His father asked him three times what was wrong.

Finally, the boy replied,

'That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home

and I wanted to stay with you guys.'

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One particular four-year-old prayed,

'And forgive us our trash baskets

as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.'

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A Sunday school teacher asked her children as they

were on the way to church service,

'And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?'

One bright little girl replied,

'Because people are sleeping.'

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A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin 5, and Ryan 3,

The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.

Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson.

'If Jesus were sitting here, He would say,

'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.'

Kevin turned to his younger brother and said,

'Ryan, you be Jesus!'

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A father was at the beach with his children

when the four-year-old son ran up to him,

grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore

where a seagull lay dead in the sand.

'Daddy, what happened to him?' the son asked.

'He died and went to Heaven,' the Dad replied.

The boy thought a moment and then said,

'Did God throw him back down?'

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A wife invited some people to dinner.

At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said,

'Would you like to say the blessing?'

'I wouldn't know what to say,' the girl replied.

'Just say what you hear Mommy say,' the wife answered.

The daughter bowed her head and said,

'Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?'

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A little light-heartedness in the middle of the week. LOL

TWEETIE

OH, TWEETIE - YOU'RE AN ANGEL!

JUST SING LOUDER

James Robison writes good stuff. When I read the e-mail I got from him today I thought "That is what I should share for Spiritual Sundays." Somehow I get the feeling that God is providing what I should share each week. Just when I don't have a clue as to what I'm going to post, something like this comes to me many times in an e-mail.
Here is the message from James.

Will The Church Just Sing Louder?

by James Robison

"I lived in Germany during the Nazi Holocaust. I considered

myself a Christian. We heard stories of what was happening to Jews,

but we tried to distance ourselves from it because what could we do to

stop it. A railroad track ran behind our small church and each Sunday

morning we could hear the whistle in the distance, and then the wheels

coming over the tracks. We became disturbed when we heard the cries

coming from the train as it passed by. We realized that it was

carrying Jews like cattle in the cars.

"Week after week the whistle would blow. We dreaded to hear the sound

of those wheels because we knew that we would hear the cries of the

Jews in route to a death camp. Their screams tormented us. We knew the

time the train was coming, and when we heard the whistle blow, we

began singing hymns. By the time the train came past our church, we

were singing at the top of our voices. If we heard the screams, we

sang more loudly and soon we heard them no more."

Find out the background of this true story, plus James' related

message at www.jamesrobison.net

I think this is something we need to think about. We don't believe something like this could ever happen in America, but I'll bet the people in Germany thought the same thing at one time. We need to pay attention to what is going on with our government. A lot of it is not good (in my opinion.)

Exciting things are happening over at Spiritual Sundays. We were so blessed to be allowed to be a part of Kelee Katillac's big Miracle Makeover Party last weekend. Thank you again, Kelee for this privilege. Also, Ginger has designed a new blog called Prayer Request. It is linked to Spiritual Sundays. Ginger also created a really neat tool bar that we can put on our computers. I have already put mine on my computer and I love it. You can find out more about both of these new features at the Spiritual Sundays site. Thank you, Ginger, for a job well done.

BRULÉ

Are you familiar with Brulé? The first time I saw them perform was at an Arts Festival in Fountain Hills, AZ.  There are several Arts festivals in the Phoenix area and we have been to quite a few. We enjoy looking at all the interesting things that are featured there. I usually come away with a piece of pottery, a piece of jewelry, or something each time we go to one. Of course there is a lot of different foods available too. We usually get Indian fry bread with beans and cheese on it for lunch while we're there.

Anyway, back to Brulé. The first time we saw and heard them we were mesmerized. They always draw a large crowd to listen to their music.

Here are some photos I took at one of their performances a couple of years ago.

The music playing right now is one of theirs.(Note: I just turned it off for the Spiritual Sundays post.) You can click on the music widget on the sidebar to listen to their music. I thought I would include one of their videos in case you would be interested in watching it. 

I hope you enjoy Brulé as much as I do. You can find more of their videos on UTube.

HAVE A NICE DAY

 

Couldn't resist sharing this. Reminds me of me. LOL

SOMETHING SPECIAL

There is something very special going to happen next weekend. Spiritual Sundays, Pink Saturdays, and many bloggers are helping to promote it. You may have already heard about it. You can read about it in the September issue of Guideposts Magazine.

Colette was given a 5 - 15% chance of surviving cancer. That is when Kelee Katillac and her crew stepped in and transformed her dismal abode and helped facilitate a miracle. Read more about it and find out details of the big event that will be taking place August 27th, 28th and 29th. If you have a blog and would like to link up to join this party, you can do that through the Pink Saturday or Spiritual Sundays memes.

Kelee is doing a big GIVEAWAY in honor of this event as well. Everyone who comments at the Katillac Shack will be eligible for the wonderful gifts. They include a new Janome sewing machine, a beautiful floral painting, and subscriptions to Guideposts Magazine. I suggest you go right now to Kelee's blog to find out more information and to qualify to win one of these giveaways. Here is the link: http://www.katillacshack.com/

Be looking forward, as I am, to a video that will be posted next weekend about Colette's miracle. In the meantime, check back at the Katillac Shack during the week for any updates.

From a Hot Tub to a Pool

After I posted the photos of our hot tub in CA a few days ago and mentioned that now we don't have a hot tub but we have a pool, I decided to post a picture of that pool. Do I look young in this picture? It was taken about 5 years after the hot tub picture - about 20 years ago. No, I thought about posting a more recent picture, but decided "no". lol.  Notice the sea gull at the back of the pool? It was also in the hot tub picture. It is still out there by the pool looking a little weather worn by now. Oh, and the blue and white umbrella came with us when we moved as well. It lasted a long time. I just noticed the bird bath and cement bunny. They came with us too. Bet they wonder what happened to that nice cool shady back yard. Actually this back yard is pretty shady now, and it's cool (in the winter time). We planted a small tree in the corner behind the grass. Now it has gotten so large and the palm trees have grown so that the whole pool is in the shade in the mornings (for awhile).

Thanks for humoring me and reading this post. My Spiritual Sundays post is on the Charlotte's Weblog blog this week. If you have not seen it I invite you to go there. http://char72.wordpress.com/

HOT TUB DAYS

Not long before we moved away from California, we had a new redwood deck built in our back yard and bought a hot tub. I was just looking through the photos on my computer and ran across these. I thought it might be fun to reminisce a little about those days. What fun it was to sit in the hot tub especially at night and listen to cassette tapes. I can still hear Barbra Streisand singing "Memory (from Cats)" in my mind. (And now I hear it on my computer.)

Now we have a pool but no hot tub. The hot tub was great. The pool is better. We have been blessed in so many ways.

CHOCOLATE

OK. I admit it. I'm totally addicted to chocolate. Wouldn't a chocolate keyboard like this one be nice?

As I said, I love chocolate so when my daughter gave me her Chocolate cell phone, after she had gotten a new one, I was thrilled. No, the phone isn't chocolate color. It is black, but just the name was enough to convince me I wanted to switch my old cell phone for this "chocolate" one. I don't actually use a cell phone very much so I just kind of stored it away in my purse waiting for a time to use it. When I took it out a couple of days ago it was totally dead. I charged it up, but it still wouldn't even try to come on. So, yesterday I took it down to a Verizon store to find out what the problem was. When the guy looked at it, he said, "Oh, those chocolate phones have all kinds of problems." Of course he wanted to sell me a new phone, but I had taken my old phone with me in case this one couldn't be fixed, so I just had him switch my number back to the old phone. I'm sure he was terribly disappointed because he probably thought I would buy a new one and sign a new contract for sure. I fooled him.

So why am I even writing this post? It's because it shows how one can be perfectly happy with what they have until they think they're going to get something better. I was perfectly happy with the phone I had until the chocolate one came along. I'm just wondering if any of you have a LG Chocolate phone and if you have had any problems with it. My daughter said she didn't have any problem with this one at all. Maybe it just didn't like me so it died. I'm still wondering if I got a new battery for it if it would work. Think I'll check into it further. I really like that chocolate phone. Here's a photo.

Post Script:  Took the phone to Best Buy. Turns out it didn't even need a battery. I just wasn't trying to turn it on right. Wouldn't you think I would have found that out at the Verizon store? Wouldn't you think I would have had sense enough to do it right after reading the instructions several times. Oh well, live and learn my Mama always said. LOL

Playing With the Moon

I love the creativity and imagination of whoever took these photos. Thanks goes to Scott Williams for e-mailing them to me.

My Spiritual Sundays post is on my other blog this week. http://char72.wordpress.com/

Have a great weekend.

I KNEW HE COULD DO IT

Confused? See July 14 post. LOL (click on July 14 to go directly there.)