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Family AttitudeThe 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait." "That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged...it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it ..."It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away .....just for this time in my life. Old age is like a bank account .....you withdraw from what you've put in . So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing. Remember the five simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less. FAMILY Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think? So what is behind the story? Do you know what the word FAMILY means? FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU
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New version of an old story, but it does have a good moral to it.>>>>>>>> The Tomato Company>>>> An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and >> three kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily >> passes an aptitude test.>>>> The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at >> minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we >> can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the >> forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day.>>>> Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a >> computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "You must >> understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do >> not exist.>>>> Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a >> high-tech firm. Good day.">>>> Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 >> in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling >> 25lb crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a >> busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all >> the tomatoes and makes 100% profit.>>>> Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with >> almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries >> for his family.>>>> During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next >> day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working >> into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second >> week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, >> but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup >> truck.>>>> At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have >> left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his >> wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at >> the community college so she can keep books for him.>>>> By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks >> and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. >> He continues to work hard.>>>> Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of >> nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato >> farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds >> of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the >> business grossed a million dollars.>>>> Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.>>>> Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to >> fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail >> address in order to send the final documents electronically.>>>> When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a >> computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, >> you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you >> would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!>>>> "Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be >> sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour.">>>> Which brings us to the moral:>>>> Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being >> a janitor than a millionaire.>>>> Sadly, I received it also.>>

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Phillippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success. Pass it on to ten people whom you want to see blessed. Don't forget to send it back to the one who sent it to you. May God continue to bless you.

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Senior Moment A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing ....and," pausing to take another drink of beer...... The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young........so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shithead, what are you doing for the next generation?"


You gotta love senior citizens!!!

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This is something that we should all read.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever. .......Hebrews 13:8I WON'T EVERI saw him in the church building for the first time onWednesday. He was in his mid-70's, with thinning silver hairand a neat brown suit.Many times in the past I had invited him to come. Several otherChristian friends had talked to him about the Lord and hadtried to share the good news with him.He was a well-respected, honest man with so manycharacteristics a Christian should have, but he had never puton Christ, nor entered the doors of the church."Have you ever been to a church service in your life?" I hadasked him a few years ago. We had just finished a pleasant dayof visiting and talking.He hesitated. Then with a bitter smile he told me of hischildhood experience some fifty years ago. He was one of manychildren in a large impoverished family. His parents hadstruggled to provide food, with little left for housing andclothing. When he was about ten, some neighbors invited him toworship with them.The Sunday School class had been very exciting! He had neverheard such songs and stories before!He had never heard anyone read from the Bible! After class wasover, the teacher took him aside and said, "Son, please don'tcome again dressed as you are now. We want to look our bestwhen we come into God's house."He stood in his ragged, unpatched overalls. Then looking at hisdirty bare feet, he answered softly, "No, ma'am, I won't ever.""And I never did," he said, abruptly ending our conversation.There must have been other factors to have hardened him so, butthis experience formed a significant part of the bitterness inhis heart.I'm sure that Sunday School teacher meant well. But did shereally understand the love of Christ? Had she studied andaccepted the teachings found in the second chapter of James?What if she had put her arms around the dirty, ragged littleboy and said, "Son, I am so glad you are here, and I hope youwill come every chance you get to hear more about Jesus."I reflected on the awesome responsibility a teacher or pastoror a parent has to welcome little ones in His name. How farreaching her influence was!I prayed that I might be ever open to the tenderness of achild's heart, and that I might never fail to see beyond theappearance and behavior of a child to the eternal possibilitieswithin.Yes, I saw him in the church house for the first time onWednesday. As I looked at that immaculately dressed oldgentleman lying in his casket, I thought of the little boy oflong ago. I could almost hear him say, "No, ma'am, I won'tever."And I wept.^j^ ^j^^j^ If God brings you to it, ^j^^j^ He will bring you through it ^j^^j^ ^j^

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Does God Exist? This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It's an explanation people will understand. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving a God who would allow all of these things." The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and un-kept. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me." "Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world." If you KNOW God exists, send this to other people--- If you think God doesn't exist, then just delete it! BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!

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READ EACH SENTENCE SLOWLY AND THINK ABOUT IT.Love starts with a smile,grows with a kiss,and ends with a tear.Don't cry over anyonewho won't cry over you.Good friends are hard to find,harder to leave,and impossible to forget.Don't let the past hold you back,you're missing the good stuff.BEST FRIENDS are the siblingsGo d forgot to give us.When it hurts to look back,and you're scared to look ahead,you can look beside youand your BEST FRIEND will be there.Nobody is perfectUntil you fall in love with themSend this on to everyone special in your life,even the people who really make you mad sometimesand to the people whose lives you want to be in!!!And send it back to the person who sent it to you! if they mean something to you!!Remember, every minute spent angry issixty seconds of happiness wasted.

--"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" Romans 12:12

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rude bus driver

One morning, a woman and her baby were taking a bus. As she entered the bus the driver says "Wow, that is one ugly baby."
The woman was deeply hurt. She continued to get on to the bus and found a seat next to an elderly man. The man asked her, "What's wrong? You look mad."
She replied, "I am. That bus driver just insulted me."
"You shouldn't take that from him," the man replied. "He's a public worker and should give you respect. If I was you I would take his badge number and report him."
"You're right sir, I think I will report him."
The elderly man says, "You go on up there and get his badge number. I'll hold your monkey for you.""SendItOut.com Newsletter" <mlist@senditout.com> wrote: