Karen,
    Thanks for the reminder that we can be used by God if we let him use us.
I passed this one along as well.

Amy
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From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:01 PM
Subject: Who God Uses


> Who God Uses
>
> God, grant me the Serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the
Courage
> to change the one I can, and the Wisdom to know it's me.
>
> The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...
> Noah was a drunk
> Abraham was too old
> Isaac was a daydreamer
> Jacob was a liar
> Leah was ugly
> Joseph was abused
> Moses had a stuttering problem
> Gideon was afraid
> Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
> Rahab was a prostitute
> Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
> David had an affair and was a murderer
> Elijah was suicidal
> Isaiah preached naked
> Jonah ran from God
> Naomi was a widow
> Job went bankrupt
> John the Baptist ate bugs
> Peter denied Christ
> The Disciples fell asleep while praying
> Martha worried about everything
> The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
> Zaccheus was too small
> Paul was too religious
> Timothy had an ulcer...AND
> Lazarus was dead!
>
> No more excuses now. God can use you to your full potential.
> Besides you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.
>
> 1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
> 2. Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
> 3. Growing old is inevitable . growing UP is optional.
> 4. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
> 5. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.
> 6. Do the math. count your blessings
> 7. Faith is the ability to not panic.
> 8. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
> 9. If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry.
> 10. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
> 11. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
> 12. The most important things in your house are the people.
> 13. When we get tangled up in our problems, be still.
> God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.
> 14. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
> 15. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
>
> Share this with a friend or two. In the Circle of God's love, God's
waiting
> to use your full potential.
>
> May God Always Bless You and Yours!
>
>
>
> --
> Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed
> > the Ten Commandments?
>
> I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there
is
>
> IN GOD WE TRUST
> Karen Carter  '74
> -KC- Ministries