It can buy you a House
But not a Home
It can buy you a Bed
But not Sleep
It can buy you a Clock
But not Time
It can buy you a Book
But not Knowledge
It can buy you a Position
But not Respect
It can buy you Sex
But not Love
It can buy you Medicine
But not Health
It can buy you Blood
But not Life
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Random facts
1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
3
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
29
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
58
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
59
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua---anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
3
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
29
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
58
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
59
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua---anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Friday, December 24, 2010
The Walk
THE WALK
(Luke 24:13–34)
By Dave Veerman
Trudging on the weary road
Slumped shoulders, faces sad
Hope had died, their hero slain
Lost all they thought they had
A fellow traveler joined the two
In walk and conversation
Questions, answers, Scriptures shared
Till their destination
Before their meal he took the bread
Blessed and broke he gave
Suddenly they knew his name
The One who came to save
More than thirty years before
In lowly stable birth
He arrived to walk with us
Cohabitant of earth
Growing, working, child and son
Through teen years and beyond
Finite limitation
A fully human bond
Though perfect, tried and crucified
God as man, our sins he bore
Three days, then, triumphantly
Arose to die no more
Like the two Emmaus bound
My focus shifts away
Knowing doubt, assuming loss
Giving circumstances sway
But Jesus drawing closer there
To give, to help, to guide
Along my twisting path he walks
Softly at my side
Too often, though, my eyes are closed
To where he walks and why
And I continue shuffling on
With tear and weary sigh
Lord I long to see and know you
Presence, power, loving grace
Here with joy and safely home
Held in your embrace
(Luke 24:13–34)
By Dave Veerman
Trudging on the weary road
Slumped shoulders, faces sad
Hope had died, their hero slain
Lost all they thought they had
A fellow traveler joined the two
In walk and conversation
Questions, answers, Scriptures shared
Till their destination
Before their meal he took the bread
Blessed and broke he gave
Suddenly they knew his name
The One who came to save
More than thirty years before
In lowly stable birth
He arrived to walk with us
Cohabitant of earth
Growing, working, child and son
Through teen years and beyond
Finite limitation
A fully human bond
Though perfect, tried and crucified
God as man, our sins he bore
Three days, then, triumphantly
Arose to die no more
Like the two Emmaus bound
My focus shifts away
Knowing doubt, assuming loss
Giving circumstances sway
But Jesus drawing closer there
To give, to help, to guide
Along my twisting path he walks
Softly at my side
Too often, though, my eyes are closed
To where he walks and why
And I continue shuffling on
With tear and weary sigh
Lord I long to see and know you
Presence, power, loving grace
Here with joy and safely home
Held in your embrace
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
NO PLACE TO LAY HIS HEAD
The Christmas story has become really sanitized.
I mean literally. How many depictions do we see, how often do we think, of the Christ Child in the manger, surrounded by shining angels, kindly shepherds, pretty sheep… and bugs and worms, rotted bits of feed and dung, dirt and moldy straw?
The manger was likely in a rough, dark, musty cave, not in an open-air lean-to that the greeting cards portray.
We can also wonder whether Joseph and Mary were told "No room in the inn!" not only because the city was crowded… but perhaps because innkeepers declined rooms to unmarried pregnant girls.
Homeless...a mother who was single when she conceived… rejected...forced to the humblest place in the city to be born, farm animals as attendants: the Bible accurately calls it a lowly birth.
What has NOT been scrubbed clean from the story is that the Bible called it a lowly birth hundreds of years before it happened, in every particular – these details and many more. Truly this was the Son of God.
But we should not turn to the next pretty greeting card this Christmas season. Linger in that stable, and you will see more. You will see children today born in similar circumstances. Parents in distress. No place to live. Little to eat. Rejected and despised.
When God chose to humble Himself and become flesh, He emptied Himself of His royal nature, and became… middle class? A suburbanite fretting over student loans? Someone managing a household budget and hobbies? OK, those might not be profiles of average Bethlehemites of the day… but they are not profiles of millions of babies born around the world today, either.
God identified with the most basic level of humanity. He meets us at our humblest places, conditions, and realities.
When we think of this unsanitary and unsanitized picture of the Nativity, does it change our attitude toward Jesus, the Incarnate Lord, come to live with us?
Does it change our attitude toward homeless, rejected, vulnerable, hungry children being born every day?
Does it change our attitude toward our own hearts?
The Christmas story has become really sanitized.
I mean literally. How many depictions do we see, how often do we think, of the Christ Child in the manger, surrounded by shining angels, kindly shepherds, pretty sheep… and bugs and worms, rotted bits of feed and dung, dirt and moldy straw?
The manger was likely in a rough, dark, musty cave, not in an open-air lean-to that the greeting cards portray.
We can also wonder whether Joseph and Mary were told "No room in the inn!" not only because the city was crowded… but perhaps because innkeepers declined rooms to unmarried pregnant girls.
Homeless...a mother who was single when she conceived… rejected...forced to the humblest place in the city to be born, farm animals as attendants: the Bible accurately calls it a lowly birth.
What has NOT been scrubbed clean from the story is that the Bible called it a lowly birth hundreds of years before it happened, in every particular – these details and many more. Truly this was the Son of God.
But we should not turn to the next pretty greeting card this Christmas season. Linger in that stable, and you will see more. You will see children today born in similar circumstances. Parents in distress. No place to live. Little to eat. Rejected and despised.
When God chose to humble Himself and become flesh, He emptied Himself of His royal nature, and became… middle class? A suburbanite fretting over student loans? Someone managing a household budget and hobbies? OK, those might not be profiles of average Bethlehemites of the day… but they are not profiles of millions of babies born around the world today, either.
God identified with the most basic level of humanity. He meets us at our humblest places, conditions, and realities.
When we think of this unsanitary and unsanitized picture of the Nativity, does it change our attitude toward Jesus, the Incarnate Lord, come to live with us?
Does it change our attitude toward homeless, rejected, vulnerable, hungry children being born every day?
Does it change our attitude toward our own hearts?
Monday, December 20, 2010
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'VE SPENT TOO MUCH MONEY ON CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
10. Your letter carrier develops a hernia delivering your MasterCard bill.
9. Your new computer has more RAM than Microsoft headquarters.
8. The Federal government is offering you a bailout.
7. You've taken out a second mortgage to pay for the "Nuclear-powered 3-D Brain Blaster" video game system.
6. A guy named "Nick the Kneecap" keeps calling you at 3 a.m.
5. You spend all your time away from the office or assembly line asking, "Do you want fries with that?"
4. You use cardboard boxes, wrapping paper, and computer manuals to heat your home.
3. The Ghost of Christmas Future reveals your family living at a homeless shelter, but揺ey遥ou're the best dressed people there.
2. You're receiving money for food and medicine from a Russian orphan.
1. You've forgotten the true reason for the season.
10. Your letter carrier develops a hernia delivering your MasterCard bill.
9. Your new computer has more RAM than Microsoft headquarters.
8. The Federal government is offering you a bailout.
7. You've taken out a second mortgage to pay for the "Nuclear-powered 3-D Brain Blaster" video game system.
6. A guy named "Nick the Kneecap" keeps calling you at 3 a.m.
5. You spend all your time away from the office or assembly line asking, "Do you want fries with that?"
4. You use cardboard boxes, wrapping paper, and computer manuals to heat your home.
3. The Ghost of Christmas Future reveals your family living at a homeless shelter, but揺ey遥ou're the best dressed people there.
2. You're receiving money for food and medicine from a Russian orphan.
1. You've forgotten the true reason for the season.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A little Christmas thing for you.
Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?" (Matthew 2:2)
There's a story that has become legend in a small Minnesota town. I can't vouch for its truth, only that people tell it as though it really happened. It seems that the retiring mayor was to be honored at a party as he left office. He had been responsible for a number of significant improvements to the town, so it seemed good to have the community pay tribute.
The party was held at the VFW hall, and all agreed it was a great celebration. The music was loud, the room crowded and noisy. The finger food was unusual in its quality and liquid refreshment flowed without restraint until late into the evening. Over coffee the next morning in the Main Street diner, someone wondered aloud if the mayor had enjoyed it, but no one knew. No one in the diner had talked to him or had even seen him there. Only later did they learn that the mayor had checked into a hospital the previous day and had missed the party in his honor. Apparently no one had noticed.
It sounds a lot like Christmas. People get together, the food is great, the music warms the heart — but has anyone seen the guest of honor? The season has become about us — our menus, our travel plans, our expenses. We've lost perspective. Our celebration will be more authentic if our hopes are not only for good sales figures but also for good will among mankind. Christ will be seen among us if our prayers are not only for peace in travel but also for peace on earth.
There's a story that has become legend in a small Minnesota town. I can't vouch for its truth, only that people tell it as though it really happened. It seems that the retiring mayor was to be honored at a party as he left office. He had been responsible for a number of significant improvements to the town, so it seemed good to have the community pay tribute.
The party was held at the VFW hall, and all agreed it was a great celebration. The music was loud, the room crowded and noisy. The finger food was unusual in its quality and liquid refreshment flowed without restraint until late into the evening. Over coffee the next morning in the Main Street diner, someone wondered aloud if the mayor had enjoyed it, but no one knew. No one in the diner had talked to him or had even seen him there. Only later did they learn that the mayor had checked into a hospital the previous day and had missed the party in his honor. Apparently no one had noticed.
It sounds a lot like Christmas. People get together, the food is great, the music warms the heart — but has anyone seen the guest of honor? The season has become about us — our menus, our travel plans, our expenses. We've lost perspective. Our celebration will be more authentic if our hopes are not only for good sales figures but also for good will among mankind. Christ will be seen among us if our prayers are not only for peace in travel but also for peace on earth.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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