Married fifty years, the happy couple revealed their secrets for wedded bliss:

Him: “Never be selfish.  There is no ‘I’ in the word ‘marriage.'”

Her: “Never correct your husband’s spelling.”

One Liner
If all else fails, stop using all else.

Thought for the day
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God” 1 Peter 3:18a

Why did Jesus have to die? Because he alone was able to pay for your sins. You deserved punishment, but Jesus paid the penalty for you.

WANT A DAY OFF WORK?

So you want a day off??? Let’s take a look at what you are asking for:

There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work. Since you spend 16 hours each day away from work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available. You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee breaks, which counts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available. With a 1 hour lunch each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work. You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work. We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days. We generously give 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and there’s NO way you’re going to take that day off!

One Liner
If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound? 

Thought for the day
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up” 1 Thessalonians 5:11a

Encouraging someone else doesn’t always mean giving a pep talk or words of wisdom. Sometimes the best kind of encouragement is just sitting in silence, waiting and weeping with a friend.

Several women in the church prayer group were visiting an elderly friend who was ill. After awhile, they rose to leave and told her; “We’ll do what we can to help.  We promise to keep you in our prayers.”

“Just do something more useful like wash the dishes in the kitchen,” the ailing woman said, “I can do my own praying.”

One Liner
I like long walks, especially when taken by people who annoy me.

Thought for the day
“It is not good for the man to be alone” Genesis 2:18

God hates loneliness, and community is God’s answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.

A young man excitedly tells his mother he’s fallen in love and is going to get married. He says, “Just for fun, Ma, I’m going to bring over three women and you try and guess which one I’m going to marry.”

The mother agrees.

The next day, he brings three beautiful women into the house and sits them down on the couch and they chat for a while.

He then says, “Okay, Ma. Guess which one I’m going to marry.”

She immediately replies, “The red-head in the middle.”

Stunned, the young man says, “That’s amazing, Ma. You’re right. How did you know?”

“I don’t like her,” she says.

One Liner
The second mouse gets the cheese.

Thought for the day
“… two people are better than one, because they get more done by working together”  Ecclesiastes 4:9

When you work as a team, you get so much more done.

Two guys were working for city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one man digging a hole, the other filling it in again.

An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn’t understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, “I’m impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don’t get it — why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?”

The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, “Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we’re normally a three-person team. But today the guy who plants the trees called in sick.”

One Liner
Someday we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.

Thought for the day
“An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions” Proverbs 17:24

To achieve your dreams in life, you’ll need to decide what really matters and what will last in your life and focus on that.

A minister with a large family of seven children moved to a new city. He and his wife didn’t want to buy a home immediately.  They wanted to rent a townhouse until they could get a feel for the area and choose a home where their kids would be in good schools and they could be conveniently located.

They found plenty of rental townhouses that were large enough, but the landlords always objected to having  a family of nine occupy the place.

In frustration, one day the father asked the mother to take the four youngest children and go visit the local cemetery.  She was puzzled by his request, but went along.  He and the other three children headed off to investigate another townhouse they had found.

The place was perfect and the father told the landlord he would take it. Then came the usual question, “I see you have children. How many are there in the family?”

The minister gave out with a deep sigh, then said, “Seven … but four are with their dear mother in the cemetery.”

He got the townhouse.

One Liner
There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.

Thought for the day
“No mercy will be shown to those who show no mercy to others” (James 2:13a GW).

We need God’s forgiveness, kindness, patience, and help every day of my life. God says you get what you give. Forgiveness and mercy are a two-way street.