
Nuf said!
Its one of those nights where I am sitting up reading and thinking and started to remember the pain in my shoulder (yes Kelly is doing the "sleepy time Barbie thing) and why it got to be very hard to keep up with baseball!
I grew up throwing a lot of baseballs meaning I was a catcher for most if not all of my career. Then came the day I dislocated a shoulder...spare ya the details...and we will come to today! I played in 3 games of Dogeball against the Sr.High class at MCA today...first time I have thrown anything in a while and man my arm is sore tonight!
Which is why I post this picture of Connor and I on stage as I play bass and he dances along...and all I can think is maybe I want him to learn to play all these instruments and not get injured in sports?
Yes I know I will stand in faith and cover all my kids and thank God for there protection...but I still am thinking!
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Do not remember where I found this quiz...no I did not come up with it someone else did. But it does make you think!
The following small quiz consists of 4 questions; it is intend to determine whether you are qualified to be a professional.
The questions are not that difficult. The answers are beneath peak!
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference, all the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
4. There is a crocodile-infested river with no bridges. How do you manage to get across it ?
1 - THE Correct answer: open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. (Simple enough?)
- This question tests whether you are doing simple things in a complicated way.
2 - THE Wrong Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator.
THE Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out of the giraffe, put in the elephant, and close the door.
- This tests your prudence. Practicality: good sense in managing practical matters. Tendency to avoid risk: a tendency to evaluate situations carefully so as to avoid risk. Frugality: careful management of resources
3 - THE Correct Answer: The Elephant! The Elephant is in the refrigerator!
- This tests whether you have comprehensive thinking.
OK, if you did not answer correctly the last three questions, this one may be your last chance to testify your qualification to be a professional.
4 - THE Correct Answer: Simply swim across it. All the Crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting! I hope you got this one correct. Don't be frustrated.
According to the statistics of Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of professionals failed the exam. How did you do?
Not to sure about the accuracy of this below...but it still rings true!
Bill Gates Advice For Kids
Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things that he did not learn at school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teaching was created to a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
RULE 1:
Life is not fair – get used to it.
RULE 2:
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3:
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t have a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
RULE 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
RULE 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.
RULE 6:
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7:
Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
RULE 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself… Do that on your own time.
RULE 10:
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
all in all it makes more sense in this day and age to quit the whining and just get after it!
A thousand times I've failed
Still your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in your grace
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
Your will above all else, my purpose remains
The art of losing myself in bringing you praise
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
Chorus 2x
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise
From the inside out Lord, my soul cries out
Not Satisfied With Just Being Saved
Genesis 12:7
7Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
I don’t know about you, but I am not satisfied with just knowing that I am righteous by faith. I also want to get to know the One who made me righteous. I want to have an intimate relationship with my Savior!
Abraham was such a man. He was righteous by faith, but he also had a close walk with God and was blessed by God in all things. (Genesis 24:1) His nephew Lot, on the other hand, although righteous too (2 Peter 2:7–8), had no heart for God. He ended up losing a lot when
My friend, do you want to be a Christian like
From place to place, Abraham would build an altar to the Lord. And in between altars, he grew very rich! (Genesis 13:2) There is no biblical record, however, of
What is an “altar” in today’s context? It is a place where you know that you have a close relationship with God. For example, when my late father was in the hospital, I was worried and did not know what to do. I remember driving down the road and crying. After a while, I just threw my cares to the Lord. When I reached the hospital, I just laid my hands on my father and said, “Be healed in Jesus’ name.” And he was healed!
Till today, I can remember the place where I had cast my cares to the Lord and leaned on His love for me. That is my “altar”. And it is not the only one.
We have got to have this kind of relationship with God, one full of “altars” that remind us of His love, goodness and faithfulness. Let’s not live the Christian life like
Skills of Outstanding Leaders
Perseverance & Persistence
by Mac
Perseverance is all too rare a commodity these days. Theodore Giesel's first children's book was rejected by twenty-three publishers. The 24th publisher sold six million copies. Years later, "Dr. Suess" died knowing his perseverance resulted in entertaining and educating millions of children.
The value of perseverance is highlighted in many places in the Bible. For example, Galatians 6:9 says, "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Persistence is a vital quality for leaders today.
My question for you is, "Are you being tempted to quit where you need to persevere?"