REMEMBER WHEN? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? Buffalo Nickels. It took five minutes for the black and white only TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Dad worked everyday hard and he bought the groceries, while Mom stated home to watch the 7 or 8 children. Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? People said, Thank you, Excuse me and people smiled? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed, and they did? When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ." And playing the Quiet Game, Just getting very Quiet and naming the sounds that we heard. And the Ice-cream Truck, Music and All. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, You could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing Compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our Dad whopped us hard, He and We both cried. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But We survived because their love was greater than the threat. We could pray at school and learned about SEX on our own, After getting married. There were lots of Virgin Girls, not boys. Gay meant laughing. Send this on to someone who can still remember---- Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as summers filled with bike rides, Grooving on a Sunday afternoon, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that?" I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside, Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles-Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes, Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Newsreels before the movie-P.F. Fliers-Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601) or 2454909...Party lines-Peashooters-Howdy Dowdy-45 RPM records-Green Stamps-Hi-Fi's-Metal ice cubes trays with levers-Mimeograph paper-Beanie and Cecil-Roller-skate keys-Cork pop guns-Drive ins-Studebakers and Henry J's (Had One Too) Washtub wringers-The Fuller Brush Man-Reel-To-Reel tape recorders-Tinkertoys-Erector Sets-The Fort Apache Play Set-Lincoln Logs-15 cent McDonald hamburgers or What McDonald's? 5 cent packs of baseball cards-with that awful pink slab of bubble gum-Penny candy-35 cent a gallon gasoline-Jiffy Pop popcorn. Do you remember a time when... What in the heck was Head Lice? Never had it or even heard of it until 1980. How did it get here? Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? On Christmas we new what it was and got only "ONE" Toy and we really did think we heard Santa on the roof. I was VERY Broken hearted to find that some people still, do not believe in Santa Claus while all the time he was my Daddy."Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles, hula hoops and jumping ropes, pick up sticks and riding bikes and walking through miles and miles of underground tunnels. Tag you're it, Dick, Jane and Spot books? Transistor Radio, am only, and mono, ugh. And out door movies were a Blast. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon and water was free. Wolf Man and Frankenstien and King Kong Movies. If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life..I double-dog-dare-ya! Can you add to this? Let us keep it going and PLEASE add your memories and mail it back to me @ MouthForGod@Aol.com Thanks, Michelle ~~~ Words To You From God: My Children, You have failed many times although you may not want to remember. With each time you grew closer to me, my Love is warm and Tender. You were bullied around in life and sometimes some were Cruel, but your heart was always leaning towards me. I am always here to help you and I always will see you get through the hard times into a better life you will go. So I command you to Praise me and let your love start to grow. Don.t worry, that Insults me, for I take care of the birds, with you of a much more value to me. Just think about all the chances you miss, when you just don,t even try. You have a Real Strong Spirit So Pray It- Believe It- Love Your Life-LIVE IT...I did not ever say you would not have problems, But I Am here to help you get through everyone. ~~~ Recently we took our kids on a vacation to a historical city. While going on a tour through an old house, we followed a family from New York City. They didn't tell me they were from New York. They didn't have to. I could tell. They wore New York City clothes. Their teenager had one half of his head shaved and on the other half of his head, his hair hung past his shoulders. The daughter wore layered clothes and long beads. The mother looked like she'd raided her daughter's closet, and the dad's hair was down the back of his neck. I had them all figured out. The kid was probably on drugs. The parents were going through a mid-life crisis. They were rich and miserable and in need of counseling. Good thing I was nearby in case they wanted spiritual counsel. After a few moments they introduced themselves. I was right; they were from New York City. But that is all I got right. When I told them my name, they were flabbergasted. We can't believe it She said "We've read your books. We use them in our Sunday school class in church. I tried to get over to hear you when you spoke in our area, but that was our family night and ..." Sunday school? Church? Family night? Oh, boy. I'd made a mistake. A BIG mistake. I'd applied the label before examining the contents. We've all used labels. We stick them on jars and manila folders so we'll know what's inside. We also stick them on people for the same reason. John tells of a time the disciples applied a label. Jesus and his followers came upon a man who had been blind from birth. Here is the question the disciples asked Jesus: "Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be born blind- his own sin or his parents' sin?" (John 9:2.) Never mind that the man is a beggar in need of help. Never mind that the man has spent his life in a dark cave. Never mind that the man seated in front of them is in earshot of their voices. Let's talk about his sin. How could they be so harsh? So insensitive? So...blind. The answer? (You may not like it.) It's easier to talk about a person than to help a person. It's easier to debate homo-sexuality than to be a friend to a gay person. It's easier to discuss divorce than to help the divorced. It's easier to argue abortion than to support an orphanage. It's easier to complain about the welfare system than to help the poor. It's easier to label than to love. Is that to say we should be unconcerned for doctrine or lax in a desire for holiness? Absolutely not. That is to say there is something wrong with applying the label before examining the contents. It's easier to label than to love. From "A Gentle Thunder" Max Lucado ~~~This Pastor has guts~~~ Enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard: "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and call it Pluralism. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will and to openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!" The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea. Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God." If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world. ~~~ 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT BROTHER'S CONCERNING THIS,THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST AND WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE AIR.You know alot of people out there beleave that Jesus has already come, if so how and when did this happen? The Bible says what it means and means what it says.DO NOT BE CAUGHT DEAD WITHOUT JESUS! We met a guy there named Bruce Martin in which he has kept in touch with us for all these years. I just must give him Credit for what he did with this Mis Printed Picture of me, and I am Deeply Blessed by his words that he added to my picture here and it actually happened the way he tells what I said and how he heard, That it is truly JESUS CHRIST is LOVE. We are chuildren of light not darkness. I added the picture and the poem above the picture and I thank God that he allowed me to show all those prisoners that one day, HIS LOVE. ~~~DO YOU LOVE~~~ She started with the question "Do you love ...?" Then she started to sing about God up above, how He sent down His Son to die for mankinds sin. She said"You must believe if you ever want to win!" I now believe what she said and I believe I have won, Because I now believe in God and His only begotten Son. In this mad world of ours, when push becomes shove I have to stop and ask myself "Do you love ...?" "Oh do you love ...?" "Do you love ...? Remember not to get mad when people push and shove." Then she wrapped up her song and then she said good-night then she reminded us just once more that Jesus Christ is the Light. Bruce W. Martin April 13, 1988 P. T. L
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YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER SOMEWHERE. I use to be a fanatic, I drove people away from Jesus, instead of to Him. I guess I thought I was above Sin. I thought I had to quit EVERYTHING I was doing to be a, so called Christian. I was very boring. I did not even like myself. I tried not to curse or swear and all the other bad habits I had collected through out my life time, but I always found myself slipping back to the same old things, that I had tried so not to do. I was Saved in 1972, at an Assembly Of God Church, and I had a small child so when I went to church, I winded up in the nursery anyway. So I soon I went back to sin, and it was terrible, I will save you all the Gross details. ~~~ ~~~The Wemmicks: You are special because God made You! His workshop sat on a hill overlooking their village. Every Wemmick was different. Some had big noses, others had large eyes. Some were tall and others were short. Still others knew big words or could sing very pretty songs. Everyone gave them stars. Some Wemmicks had stars all over them! Every time they got a star it made them feel so good that they did something else and got another star. "He deserves lots of dots," the wooden people would agree with one another. "He's not a good wooden person" After a while Punchinello believed them. "I'm not a good Wemmick," he would say. The few times he went outside, he hung around other Wemmicks who had a lot of dots. He felt better around them. She had no dots or stars. She was just wooden. Her name was Lulia. It wasn't that people didn't try to give her stickers; it's just that the stickers didn't stick. Some admired Lulia for having no dots, so they would run up and give her a star. But it would fall off. Some would look down on her for having no stars, so they would give her a dot. But it wouldn't stay either. That's the way I want to be, thought Punchinello. "I don't want anyone's marks" So he asked the stickerless Wemmick how she did it? I sit in the workshop with him, Why? Go up the hill. He's there. "I'm not staying here!" and he turned to leave. Then he heard his name. Who are they to give stars or dots? And I think you are pretty special. I can't jump. My paint is peeling. Why do I matter to you? The stickers only stick if you let them. The more you trust my love, the less you care about the stickers. Eli lifted Punchinello off the bench and set him on the ground. Remember, Eli said as the Wemmick walked out the door. You are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes. Punchinello didn't stop, But in his heart he thought, "I think he really means it." ~~~ THERE WAS A CHILD NAMED SAMUEL WHO HEARD HIS NAME CALLED , BUT HE THOUGHT IT WAS THE PREIST ELI, ~~~ ~~~*Remember*~~~ In the End of our Time ~~~ "I have mine too" Marilyn said, Its in my diary" Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times" Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists" Tell them, before it is too late. |
