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December 2, 2010 volume
10-issue 43
Your editor: Jan Tallent,
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Today's Issue Contains:
Publisher's Spot
Featured Article: The First Day
Great Story
Fun Tip, Joke or Site
Super Digital Bargain of the
Day
Recommended eZines
Publisher's Goodbye and
Legal Stuff
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I had a wonderful
Thanksgiving – all 3 of my own kids were here and 2 of my 3 grands!
It had been 64 degrees that
morning, dropped to 35 by noon and we had HUGE snowflakes
coming down so hard we thought
we were going to be snowed under and then, thank God,
it stopped and warmed up
again, lol. Yes, that is the weather in Missouri.
My oldest daughter, Crystal,
her hubby Christopher, his other daughter, Elizabeth, 14
years old, his other son,
Nathan, 10 years old, my grand Princess Madison, who, believe
it or not is turning FIVE in
January, sigh – and my grand Prince Aiden, who is a year and
a half old already, got here
just in time for us to eat dinner, open some “just in case the
weather is too bad at
Christmas time for us to get together” presents, and we had a
blast.
It was the nicest
Thanksgiving I remember ever having and I am SO blessed!
My Mom is on the mend and
will soon be back home to her apartment in the nursing home
instead of on the nursing
side. She is doing so well now and I thank God hugely for that.
For quite awhile it did not
seem like she would ever get to walking well again but God IS
So good and my Mom is
wonderfully stubborn, lol.
I got SIX whole responses on
my question about keeping the ezine going. All but 5 were
“yeses” and the sixth was “Only
if you want to, but either way, keep in touch.”
Thank you for all who
bothered to reply. I plan on sticking with the ezine until at least
our 11 year anniversary in
February but will not do a real schedule. We shall see
how it goes.
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Featured Article
The
First Day
On the first day, God created the dog and said, "Sit all day
by the door of your house
and bark at anyone who comes
in or walks past.
For this, I will give you a
life span of 20 years."
The dog said, "That's a
long time to be barking.
How about only 10 years and I'll give you back the other 10?"
So God agreed.
On the second day, God
created the monkey and said, "Entertain people, do tricks
and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a 20-year life
span..."
The monkey said,
"Monkey tricks for 20 years?
That's a pretty long time to perform.
How about I give you back 10
like the dog did?"
And God agreed...
On the third day, God
created the cow and said, "You must go into the field with
the farmer all day long and
suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to
support the farmer's
family. For this, I will give you a
life span of 60 years."
The cow said, "That's
kind of a tough life you want me to live for 60 years.
How about 20 and I'll give back the other 40?"
And God agreed again...
On the fourth day, God
created humans and said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and
enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you 20 years."
But the human said,
"Only 20 years? Could you possibly
give me my 20, the 40
the cow gave back, the 10
the monkey gave back, and the 10 the dog gave back;
that makes 80, okay?"
"Okay," said
God. "You asked for it."
So that is why for our first
20 years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves.
For the next 40 years, we
slave in the sun to support our family.
For the next 10 years, we do
monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren.
And for the last 10 years,
we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained
to you.
There is no need to thank me
for this valuable information.
I'm doing it as a public service.
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I love this story and just
had to share it.
Psalm 55:22
'Friends are God's way of
taking care of us.'
This was written by a Metro
Denver Hospice Physician:
I was driving home from a
meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd.,
and the car started to choke
and splutter and die - I barely managed to coast, cursing,
into a gas station, glad
only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat
warm spot to wait for the
tow truck. It wouldn't even turn over. Before I could make the call,
I saw a woman walking out of
the 'quickie mart ' building, and it looked like she slipped
on some ice and fell into a
Gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay.
When I got there, it looked
more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen;
she was a young woman who
looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes.
She dropped something as I
helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her.
It was a nickel..
At that moment, everything
came into focus for me: the crying woman,
the ancient Suburban crammed
full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat),
and the gas pump reading
$4.95.
I asked her if she was okay
and if she needed help, and she just kept saying
' I don't want my kids to
see me crying,' so we stood on the other side of the
pump from her car. She said
she was driving to California and that things
were very hard for her right
now. So I asked, 'And you were praying?'
That made her back a away
from me a little, but I assured her I was not
a crazy person and said, 'He
heard you, and He sent me.'
I took out my card and
swiped it through the card reader on the pump
so she could fill up her
truck completely, and while it was fueling,
walked to the next door
McDonald's and bought 2 big bags of food,
some gift certificates for
more, and a big cup of coffee.
She gave the food to the
kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves,
and we stood by the pump
eating fries and talking a little.
She told me her name, and
that she lived in Kansas City Her boyfriend left 2 months ago
and she had not been able to
make ends meet. She knew she wouldn't have money to
pay rent Jan 1, and finally
in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom
she had not spoken in about
5 years. They lived in California and said she could come
live with them and try to
get on her feet there.
So she packed up everything
she owned in the car. She told the kids they were going to
California for Christmas,
but not that they were going to live there.
I gave her my gloves, a
little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road.
As I was walking over to my
car, she said, 'So, are you like an angel or something?'
This definitely made me cry.
I said, 'Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy,
so sometimes God uses
regular people.'
It was so incredible to be a
part of someone else's miracle.
And of course, you guessed
it, when I got in my car it started right away
and got me home with no
problem. I'll put it in the shop tomorrow to check,
but I suspect the mechanic
won't find anything wrong..
Sometimes the angels fly
close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings...
Psalms 55:22 'Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.
He shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.'
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Fun Tip, Joke or Good Sites
If you yelled for 8 years, 7
months and 6 days
you would have produced
enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
The flea can jump 350 times
its body length.
It's like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000
taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on
the bottom of a pond?)
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