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Some months ago we shared “handy tips” for life. Remember that great idea, “If a person is choking on an ice cube, don’t panic. Simply pour a jug of boiling water down their throat and presto! The blockage is almost instantly removed.” Well, we’ve got some more tips . .…

Out playing in the yard one day with my young granddaughter, I got a little wistful. “In ten years,” I said, “you’ll want to be with your friends and you won’t go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.” She shrugged and said sweetly. “Don’t worry, Grandpa.…

JZ forwarded – Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving shots to children. One day I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle. “No, no, no” she screamed. “Lizzie,” scolded her mother, “that’s not polite behavior.” With that, the girl yelled even…

A reporter travels to Israel to cover the fighting. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello everyday in the town square. In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who had…

[Forwarded, and verified as a true account] One of the “Band of Brothers” soldiers died just a month ago (June 17, 2009). We’re hearing a lot today about big splashy memorial services. I want a nationwide memorial service for Darrell “Shifty” Powers. Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and…

Read about a church that put on a circus to attract people and had a clown “preach”. Here are some reasons we may forgo the trend and not have a clown preacher: They force people to smile too early in the morning. It’s hard to say with dignity, “The sermon…

Read about a church that put on a circus to attract people and had a clown “preach”. Here are some reasons we may forgo the trend and not have a clown preacher: They force people to smile too early in the morning. It’s hard to say with dignity, “The sermon…

AIRPLANE: What Mom impersonates to get a 1-year-old to eat strained beets. APPLE: Nutritious lunchtime dessert which I traded for cupcakes. BABY: 1. Dad, when he gets a cold. 2. Mom’s youngest child, even if he’s 42. BATHROOM: a room used by the entire family, believed by all except Mom…

Did you ever think we’re missing part of the Bible stories by just reading the facts? Here are some additions of lines that their MOTHERS might have said . . . David! I told you not to play in the house with that sling! Go practice your harp. We pay…

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ~Woody Allen “Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” ~George Burns One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never…

A pastor placed his order at the pet store. “I need at least 50 mice, 2,000 ants and as many of those little silverfish you can get.” The clerk replied, “We can probably do that, but it might take some time. Mind if I ask why you are placing such…

Dr Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005 gave these statements some years back . . . You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the…

[The great theologian John Calvin was born July 10, 1509. In his honor we share some Calvinistic humor] A man wanted to become a minister, so he went to a theological college to enroll. But when he arrived, he was met at the gates, and given his degree without even…