Greg and Gail have an urgent prayer request: they have several pressing financial needs. Please pray that God will meet those needs for them. Also pray for them to feel his peace, Greg is having difficulty sleeping normally with these situations. Please pray for Greg’s normal sleep pattern to return.
Consider these quotes from the past:
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union internal memo, 1876.
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” – Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.” – The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
“But what … is it good for?” – Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981
It’s amazing that we’ve accomplished so much technologically in this country considering the pessimistic views held by many (even more amazing when you consider that some of the achievements eventually came from people who at one time held the pessimistic views themselves).
What is your vision for the future? What would you like to accomplish? More to the point, what would you like to see God accomplish through you? There will likely be someone around you ready to tell you that “it can’t be done”, or “we’ve tried that before with no success”, or “it’s too much trouble”.
And they may be right. Or they may have a “grasshopper complex” like the ten spies in Numbers 13 who were unable to see what God could accomplish because they were looking so intently at the obstacles in their way.
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21)
May the God who can do more than we can even imagine (and I can imagine a lot!) be with you this day.
Alan Smith; “Thought For the Day”
Seen in Cup O’ Cheer
Please join Greg and Gail in prayer for their daughter Anna DiCicco and family as her two-week-old son has been diagnosed with a hole in his heart. Please pray for God’s guidance as it is not urgent, but he will need surgery to repair this condition. Also pray for traveling mercies as they need to go to Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago; possibly within the week. Also pray that they will be able to add him to their insurance. Finally, please keep Grandma Gail and Grandpa Greg in your thoughts as they continue their missionary duties during this situation.
Some helpful hints and who would think…..
* Budweiser beer conditions the hair
* Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
* Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 min
* Mayonnaise will KILL LICE; it will also condition your hair
* Elmer’s Glue-paint on your face; allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads if any
* Shiny Hair-use brewed Lipton Tea
* Sunburn -empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
* Minor burn-Colgate or Crest toothpaste
* Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
* Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too
* Bee stings – meat tenderizer
* Chigger bite – Preparation H
* Puffy eyes – Preparation H
* Paper cut – crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
* Stinky feet – Jello!!
* Athletes feet – cornstarch
* Fungus on toenails or fingernails – Vick’s vapor rub
* Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
* Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also
* Kool aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won’t hurt them if they eat it!
* Peanut butter (Creamy) – will get scratches out of CD’s! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper
* Sticking bicycle chain – Pam no-stick cooking spray
* Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby
* Peanut butter (Creamy) will take gum out of your hair
* Peanut butter (Creamy) will remove ink from the face of dolls
* When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
* Heavy dandruff – pour on the vinegar!
* Body paint – Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour into a empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
* Tie Dye T-Shirt – mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the t-shirt and soak
* Preserving a newspaper clipping – large bottle of club soda and ½ cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many years!
* A Slinky will hold toast and CD’s!
* To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste
* Stay-Free Maxi Pads- clean window, floors, just stick to the palm of your hands and work! Can also be used as a knee pad.
* Pampers as an absorbent! Remove stains from the carpet with club soda, and a pamper to absorb. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
* To remove wax – Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
* Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with peanut butter!
* Baked on food -fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
* Crayon on the wall – Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
* Dirty grout – Listerine
*Stains on clothes – Colgate
* Grass stains – Karo Syrup
* Grease Stains- Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from batteries!
* Sweat Stains – Efferdent, or vinegar
* Use a Maxi-Pad in your cap as a sweat band (Of course I think I would staple this or pin it in…. you wouldn’t want this to drop on the ground)
* Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
* To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
Received from Gary Sessions, and passed on by GCFL (www.gcfl.net)
Do you know what they are?
Can you be too nice? I heard of a woman who is a hard core believer in the adage “it’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice.” She likes to tell about when she first started to referee children’s basketball games. Her grown son stopped by to watch her officiate one of her first practice games. Afterward he suggested that she be more forceful. “You know, Mom,” he said, “you don’t have to say ‘I’m sorry, dear, but you stepped out of bounds.’”
I think that U.S. industrialist Charles M. Schwab may have gotten it right. At age 72, Schwab was sued for a large sum of money. Many high-profile personalities would have settled out of court, but Schwab went through with it and eventually won the suit. Before he left the witness stand, he asked permission of the court to make a statement of a personal nature. This is what he said:
“I am an old man, and I want to say that ninety percent of my troubles have been due to my being good to other people. If you younger folk want to avoid trouble, be hard-boiled and say no to everybody. You will then walk through life unmolested, but…” and here a broad smile lit up his face, “you will have to do without friends, and you won’t have much fun.”
Maybe that’s why author Henry James said, “Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I’m sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
– Steve Goodier, as seen in Life Support System and passed on by Cup O’ Cheer
A Father to the Fatherless
Psalm 34:8 says, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” A glimpse of God’s goodness changes us. If He is only slightly stronger than us, why pray? If He has limitations, questions, and hesitations, then you might as well pray to the Wizard of Oz.
Psalm 68:5-6 says God is “a father to the fatherless. He sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity.”
Pray with me: Dear God. Today remind me that you protect me. Be my father and defender. Defend those who are weak and afraid and feel forgotten. Show up in their lives today. Thank you for giving me a spiritual family that can never be taken away. I pray this in Jesus’ name, amen.
At any point, you are only a prayer away from help!
