“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”

Everything is a choice.

This is life’s greatest truth and its hardest lesson. It is a great truth because it reminds us of our power. Not power over others, but the often untapped power to be ourselves and to live the life we have imagined.

It is a hard lesson, because it causes us to realize that we have chosen the life we are living right now. It is perhaps frightening for us to think that we chosen to live our life exactly as it is today. Frightening because we may not like what we find when we look at our lives today. But it is also liberating, because we can now begin to choose what we will find when we look at our life in the tomorrows that lie unlived before us.

What will you see when you look at your life ten years from now? What will you choose?

Life is choices. You choose.

This has got to be one of the cleverest
E-mails I’ve received in a while.
Someone out there
is deadly at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!

DORMITORY
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

MORSE CODE
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINE
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARM
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

And for the Grand Finale

MOTHER IN-LAW When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands! (Probably a son-in-law)

New Year’s Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It’s a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends - yeah! there’s no substitute to ones presence… it is far more important than any material things.
2. Fit in Fitness - uhm, yep, eat less fats, and indulge yourself with fruits and vegetables.
3. Tame the Bulge - new pair of jeans will cost you much. think again!
4. Quit Smoking - how many new years have come and gone and yet nothing happens, well just reduce your nicotine intake, hehe.
5. Enjoy Life More - happiness is a choice. we grow old, but age is just a number, enjoy life to the fullest.
6. Quit Drinking - our body needs the right amount of alcohol, drink moderately!
7. Get Out of Debt - almost everybody has, better pay early.
8. Learn Something New - engage in some worth while activities…
9. Help Others - be charitable… that’s love in action.
10. Get Organized - first things first!

happy new year!

“It’s sharing your gifts, not purchasing gifts;
It’s not wrapping presents, its being present
and wrapping your arms around the ones you love;
It’s not getting Christmas cards out on time,
It’s sending any card, anytime, at the right time;
It’s not having the biggest and best Christmas light display,
It’s displaying the Christ light that comes from your heart;
It’s not Santa coming down the chimney,
It’s Jesus coming down from heaven,
and giving us the gift of eternal life.”

“The following item appeared in a church newsletter and contains some good advice that will help us keep selfishness in check this Christmas:
You shall not leave ‘Christ’ out of Christmas, making it ‘Xmas.’ To some, ‘X’ is unknown.
You shall prepare your soul for Christmas. Spend not so much on gifts that your soul is forgotten.
You shall not let Santa Claus replace Christ, thus robbing the day of its spiritual reality.
You shall not burden the shop girl, the mailman, and the merchant with complaints and demands.
You shall give yourself with your gift. This will increase its value a hundred fold, and the one who receives it shall treasure it forever.
You shall not value gifts received by their cost. Even the least expensive may signify love, and that is more priceless than silver and gold.
You shall not neglect the needy. Share your blessings with many who will go hungry and cold if you are generous.
You shall not neglect your church. Its services highlight the true meaning of the season.
You shall be as a little child. Not until you become in spirit as a little one are you ready to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
You shall give your heart to Christ. Let Him be at the top of your Christmas list.

Anyone keeping these commandments is sure to have a blessed Christmas.”

gudday earthlings,

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