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HEY, JUST HOW OLD ARE YOU?
My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house and he
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the
bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.
I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no
idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt
shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat
on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes
with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
old.
"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with
nothing - and that was the closest our country has
ever been to being even." --Will Rogers
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LEARNING FROM CHILDREN
The following are some "Important Things I've Learned
>From Kids" (author unknown):
1. It's more fun to color outside the lines.
2. If you're gonna draw on the wall, do it behind the
couch.
3. Ask why until you understand.
4. Hang on tight.
5. Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and
haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and a
sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
6. Make up the rules as you go along.
7. It doesn't matter who started it.
8. Ask for sprinkles.
9. If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog,
make it a dog.
10. Save a place in line for your friends.
11. Sometimes you have to take the test before you've
finished studying.
12. If you want a kitten, start out asking for a
horse.
13. Just keep banging until someone opens the door.
14. Making your bed is a waste of time.
15. There is no good reason why clothes have to
match.
16. Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he
absolutely had to.
17. You work so hard pedaling up the hill that you
hate to brake on the way down.
18. You can't ask to start over just because you're
losing the game.
It's an interesting collection of advice. Some of it
translates into good spiritual advice (#4, #13), some
of it doesn't (#2, #6). That's to be expected because
there are some aspects of childhood that we should
imitate (purity, humility, trust) and other aspects
that we should not (self-centeredness, ignorance, stubbornness).
In the scriptures, sometimes children are held up as
examples to us (Matt. 18:3-4) and sometimes those who
are like children are rebuked (Heb.5:12-14). And
sometimes both occur in the same verse (1 Cor. 14:20).
May we seek to add those beautiful "childlike"
qualities while seeking to mature and outgrow those
"childish" traits. Have a great day!
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LEARNING FROM CHILDREN
The following are some "Important Things I've Learned
>From Kids" (author unknown):
1. It's more fun to color outside the lines.
2. If you're gonna draw on the wall, do it behind the
couch.
3. Ask why until you understand.
4. Hang on tight.
5. Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and
haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and a
sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
6. Make up the rules as you go along.
7. It doesn't matter who started it.
8. Ask for sprinkles.
9. If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog,
make it a dog.
10. Save a place in line for your friends.
11. Sometimes you have to take the test before you've
finished studying.
12. If you want a kitten, start out asking for a
horse.
13. Just keep banging until someone opens the door.
14. Making your bed is a waste of time.
15. There is no good reason why clothes have to
match.
16. Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he
absolutely had to.
17. You work so hard pedaling up the hill that you
hate to brake on the way down.
18. You can't ask to start over just because you're
losing the game.
It's an interesting collection of advice. Some of it
translates into good spiritual advice (#4, #13), some
of it doesn't (#2, #6). That's to be expected because
there are some aspects of childhood that we should
imitate (purity, humility, trust) and other aspects
that we should not (self-centeredness, ignorance, stubbornness).
In the scriptures, sometimes children are held up as
examples to us (Matt. 18:3-4) and sometimes those who
are like children are rebuked (Heb.5:12-14). And
sometimes both occur in the same verse (1 Cor. 14:20).
May we seek to add those beautiful "childlike"
qualities while seeking to mature and outgrow those
"childish" traits. Have a great day!
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My Dog At It
A minister delivered a sermon in ten minutes one Sunday morning That was about half the usual length of his sermons.
He explained, "I regret to inform you that my dog, who is very fond of eating paper, ate that portion of my sermon which I was unable to deliver this morning."
After the service, a visitor from another church shook hands with the preacher as he was leaving, and said,
"Sir, if that dog of yours has any pups, I sure would like to get one to give to my minister!"