A blind man sat on the steps of a public building with a hat by his feet. He had propped up a sign nearby which said, “I am blind, please help.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man walking by took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind man.

That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came by to see how things were doing. The blind man recognized his voice and asked, “Did you change my sign this morning?” “What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

He had written, “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

One Liner
You can buy friendship with friendship, but never with dollars.

Thought for the day
Matthew 24:35, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away”

The only item on the planet that will last is the Word of God. Everything else will burn up, because truth is eternal.

A recent bride called her mother one evening in tears. “Oh, Mom, I tried to make Grandmother’s meat loaf for dinner tonight, and it’s just awful! I followed the recipe exactly, and I know I have the recipe right because it’s the one you gave me. But it just didn’t come out right, and I’m so upset. I wanted this to be so special for George because he loves meat loaf. What could have gone wrong?”

Her mother replied soothingly, “Well, dear, let’s go through the recipe. You read it out loud and tell me exactly what you did at each step, and together we’ll figure it out.”

“OK,” the bride sniffled. “Well, it starts out, ‘Take fifty cents worth of ground beef’ …”

One Liner
“Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning ‘lousy hunter.'” – Andy Rooney

Thought for the day
Joshua 1:8 says, “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful”

So according to God, you have to meditate on his Word if you want to be successful.

A tired minister was at home resting, and through the window he saw a woman approaching his door. She was one of those too-talkative people, and he was not anxious to talk with her. He said to his wife, “I’ll just duck upstairs and wait until she goes away.”

An hour passed, then he tiptoed to the stair landing and listened … not a sound. He was very pleased, so he started down calling loudly to his wife, “Well, My Dear, did you get rid of that old bore at last?”

The next moment he heard the voice of the same woman caller, and she couldn’t possibly have missed hearing him. Two steps down, he saw them both staring up at him. It seemed truly a crisis moment.

The quick-thinking minister’s wife answered, “Yes, Dear, she went away over an hour ago. But Mrs. Jones has come to call in the meantime, and I’m sure you’ll be glad to greet her.”

One Liner
There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and mom’s age.

Thought for the day
James 5:16 says, “Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed”

It doesn’t say “so that you may be forgiven” but so that you may be healed. Forgiveness comes from God. Healing comes in relationships.

A child comes home from his first day at school.

His mother asks, “Well, what did you learn today?”

The kid replies, “Not enough. They want me to come back tomorrow.”

One Liner
If God had intended us to fly, he would have made it easier to get to the airport.

Thought for the day
“Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had” Philippians 2:4-5

That means you’re most like Jesus when you’re focusing on the hurts of somebody else rather than your own hurts.

A friend bumped into his pirate buddy on the street, “Hey, I haven’t seen you in a while. What happened? You look terrible.”

“What do you mean?” said the pirate, “I feel fine.”

“What about the wooden leg? You didn’t have that before.”

“Well, we were in a battle and I got hit with a cannonball, but I’m fine now.”

“Well, okay, but what about that hook? What happened to your hand?”

“We were in another battle. I boarded a ship and got into a sword fight. My hand was cut off, I got fitted with a hook. I’m fine, really.”

“What about that eye patch?”

“Oh, one day we were at sea and a flock of birds flew over, I looked up and one of them pooped in my eye.”

“You’re kidding,” said the friend, “You couldn’t lose an eye just from that!”

“It was my first day with the hook.”

One Liner
Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Thought for the day
1 Peter 1:2a, “Dear friends, God the Father chose you long ago and knew you would become his children”

God didn’t choose you because of something you’ve done. It’s all because of who he is. It doesn’t matter how good you are, or how smart you are, or how spiritual you are. God saved you because he loves you.

A husband and wife, both getting on in years, are in bed one morning.

He takes her hand, and she says, “Don’t touch me.”

He says, “Why not?”

She answers, ” Because I’m dead.”

Husband says, “What are you talking about? We’re lying here talking to one another.”

The wife says, “No, I’m definitely dead.”

Her husband insists, “You’re not dead. What makes you think you’re dead?”

His wife answers, “I know I’m dead because I woke up this morning, and nothing hurts.”

One Liner
Saw someone at the gym put a water bottle where the Pringles go on the treadmill.

Thought for the day
Romans 9:20, “My friend, I ask, ‘Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?’” (CEV).

Whenever we doubt God’s love and wisdom, we always get into trouble. The root behind these problems is that you don’t trust God.