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#1 · October 13, 2003, 9:34 am

Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>

*** Have a Safe Trip ***  
 
 Whenever I travel by plane someone always says,
"Have a safe trip."
 
Since  when does a safe plane flight become my
responsibility?  I'm not even sure what I'm supposed
to do! Go kick the tires, drug test the pilot, what?
 
I feel I'm doing my part by not going up to the
cockpit every five minutes and asking,
"Are we there yet?"
 

*** Curiosity *** 
 
A teacher was finishing up a lesson on the joys of discovery and
the importance of curiosity. "Where would we be today," she
asked, "if no one had ever been curious?"
 
One child quietly spoke up from the back of the room. "In the
garden of Eden?"
 
*** Every Night ***
 
Little five year-old Julie was visiting the country.  Her first
day on the farm, she watched the farmer's wife pluck a chicken.
Finally she asked, "Do you have to take off their clothes
every night?"
 

*** Stuff *** 
 
Every fall I start stirring in my stuff.
 There is closet stuff, attic
stuff, and basement stuff.  I separate
 the good stuff from the bad
stuff, then I stuff the bad stuff anywhere
the stuff is not too crowded until
I decide if I will need the bad stuff.
When the Lord calls me home, my children
 will want the good stuff, but
the bad stuff, stuffed wherever there
is room among all the other stuff,
will be stuffed in bags and taken to the
dump where all the other stuff has been taken.
When ever we have company they always
 brings bags and bags of stuff.
When I visit my son, he always moves
 his stuff so I will have room for
my stuff.  My daughter-in-law always
 clears a drawer of her stuff so I
will have room for my stuff. 
Their stuff and my stuff... it would be so
much easier to use their stuff and leave
my stuff at home, with the rest of my stuff.
This fall I had an extra closet built
 so I would have a place for all
the stuff too good to throw away
and too bad to keep with all my good stuff.
You may not have this problem,
 but I seem to spend a lot of time with
stuff... food stuff, cleaning stuff,
 medicine stuff, clothes stuff and
outside stuff. Whatever would life
be like if we didn't have all this stuff?
Now there is all that stuff we use
to make us smell better than we do.
There is the stuff to make our hair
 look good, stuff to make us look
younger, stuff to make us look healthier.
 Stuff to hold us in and stuff
to fill us out.  There is stuff to read,
 stuff to play with and stuff to
entertain us and stuff to eat. 
We stuff ourselves with the food stuff.
Well, our lives are filled with stuff...
good stuff, bad stuff, big stuff,
useful stuff, junky stuff and everyone's stuff.
 Now when we leave our stuff and go
to heaven, whatever happens to our stuff
 won't matter. We will still have the good
stuff God has prepared for us in Heaven.
It's Time To Clean Our
"Stuff" From Our Closets!!!!



Have a Blessed Day
Dave and Barbara
 
 
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