Try hard not to be offended, but try harder not to offend.
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Try hard not to be offended, but try harder not to offend.
The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather was a stray found on set. Director
Francis Ford Coppola added the cat spontaneously, and it was not part of the original script. The cat's purring
was so loud that some of Brando's dialogue had to be looped in post-production.
Psycho was the first American film to show a flushing toilet on screen.
There are opportunities waiting inside everything we have to wait for.
Faith does not necessarily mean an expectation that God will intervene. (Richard Rohr)
Almost 2 in 3 churchgoers (64%) intentionally try to serve people outside of their church who have tangible needs, while a quarter neither agree nor disagree (24%) and 11% say that’s not part of their practice.
2 coaching calls today: 1 AG and 1 nondenom lay-pastor.
You can be so focused on what you don’t have that you overlook what you already possess.
Team USA wins three gold medals in Paralympic cross-country skiing events; eight-time Paralympian Oksana Masters secures 22nd career medal
Historybook: Civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy born (1926); Sir Alexander Fleming, scientist who discovered penicillin, dies (1955); Janet Reno confirmed as US' first female attorney general (1993); COVID-19 declared a pandemic by World Health Organization (2020).
There must be a time set aside when we make God our only focus.
It seems to be the case that the more you insist that you are based on the Bible, the more fissiparous you become, the church splits up into more and more little groups, each thinking that they have got biblical truth right. (N.T. Wright)
3 coaching calls today: 1 Vineyard, 1 former pastor, 1 nondenom.
Teach your heart to accept disappointments even from people you love. Because peace begins where expectations end. (unknown)
It is always good to know when you’re at your weakest.
In our restless and noisy world, Jesus’ loving voice is easily drowned out. You need to set aside some time every day for active listening to Jesus, if only for 10 minutes. 10 minutes each day for Jesus alone can bring about a radical change in your life. (Henri Nouwen)
Historybook: First stock car race held in Daytona Beach (1936); International Women's Day becomes official United Nations holiday (1977); Baseball player Joe DiMaggio dies (1999); Sam Simon, director and codeveloper of "The Simpsons," dies (2015).
I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay, small acts of kindness and love. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Maybe for you or someone you know who deals with MS or something similar.
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Praying is first and foremost listening to Jesus who dwells in the very depths of your heart. He doesn’t shout. He doesn’t thrust himself upon you. His voice is an unassuming voice, very nearly a whisper, the voice of a gentle love. (Henri Nouwen)
Historybook: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876); Actor Bryan Cranston born (1956); Roughly 600 Civil Rights activists attacked by police while marching from Selma to Montgomery, an event known as Bloody Sunday (1965); Director Stanley Kubrick dies (1999).
Historybook: Michelangelo born (1475); Davy Crockett and around 200 others are killed at the Battle of the Alamo (1836); Aspirin is patented (1899); Shaquille O’Neal born (1972); Artist Georgia O’Keeffe dies (1986).
3 coaching calls today: 1 Nondenom, 1 United Church of Canada, 1 Nazarene.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
3 coaching calls today: 1 Vineyard, 1 Nondenom, 1 UMC.
