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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Fall Colors with Snow - Grandfather Mountain

“A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.” - Donna A. Favors

Humor for the day - Little Johnny collected lots of money from trick-or-treating and he went to the candy store to buy some chocolate.


"You should give that money to charity," said the sales girl.

Little Johnny thought for a moment and said, "No, I'll buy the chocolate. You give the money to charity."



Friday, February 5, 2010

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880


Humor for the day - When I was a young minister, a funeral director asked me to hold a grave side service for a homeless man with no family or friends. The funeral was to be at a cemetery way out in the country. This was a new cemetery and this man was the first to be laid to rest there.

 

I was not familiar with the area and became lost. Being a typical man, of course, I did not ask for directions. I finally found the cemetery about an hour late. The back hoe was there and the crew was eating their lunch. The hearse was nowhere to be seen.

I apologized to the workers for being late. As I looked into the open grave, I saw the vault lid already in place. I told the workers I would not keep them long, but that this was the proper thing to do. The workers, still eating their lunch, gathered around the opening.

I was young and enthusiastic and poured out my heart and soul as I preached. The workers joined in with, "Praise the Lord," "Amen," and "Glory!" I got so into the service that I preached and preached and preached, from Genesis to The Revelation.

When the service was over, I said a prayer and walked to my car. As I opened the door, I heard one of the workers say, "I never saw anything like that before and I've been putting in septic systems for twenty years."