Thanks, that was great!

Cindy C.

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 07:30:30 -0400 "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> i am back in the office. a friend had sent these and i thought them
> good.
> hope you enjoy them
>
>
> warning some of these take on a religious tone, but, again i do too
> sometimes.
>
>
>
>
>  1.. To the world you might be one person, but to one person you
> might be
>  the world.
>
>  2.. Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than
> going to
>  McDonald's makes you a hamburger.
>
>  3.. When you feel you've made a fool of yourself, real friends
> don't
>  feel you've done a permanent job.
>
>  4.. A coincidence is when God performs a miracle, and decides to
> remain
>  anonymous.
>
>  5.. Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the
> same
>  side.
>
> 6.. I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
>
> 7.. Lead your life so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot
> to
> the town gossip.
>
> 8.. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never
> cross.
>
> 9.. Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond
> to
>  it.
>
> 10.. Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God?
>
> 11.. Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time.
> Sometimes
> you weep.
>
> 12.. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough
> to
> make them all yourself.
>
> 13.. There are two things I've learned:
>        1) There is a God.
>        2)  I'm not Him.
>
> 14.. Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and
> men
> crooked.
>
> 15.. Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach
> of
>  God's grace.
>
> 16.. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the
> need
> of God's grace.
>
> 17.. A miracle of God's is when you recognize that things didn't
> turn
> out as you planned, but they ended up better than you could have
> possibly
>  imagined.
>
> 18.. Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes he lets the storm
> rage
> and calms the child.
>
> 19.. If every word you uttered was to God, would you speak the way
> you
>  normally do?
>
> 20.. Whenever you find yourself losing patience with an elderly
> person
> in a  public situation, imagine that was your own parent and you
> were but a
> small child.
>
> 21.. When you feel exasperation with anyone, for any reason, ask
> yourself if God ever feels that way about you.
>
>  22.. In order to have an idea of the wonder of what God felt when
> he
>  made the world; watch a child discover their fingers and toes or
>  butterflies for the very first time.
>
>  23.. When we lose a sense of true peace, gaze into the face of a
> sleeping child.
>
>  24.. The secret to a successful marriage is not eternally gazing
> into
> each other's eyes, but to stand together gazing into the same
> direction
> eternally.
>
>  25.. If God made all of us in his image, why do we spend so much
> time
> adding labels God doesn't care about?
>
>  26.. When it comes time to die...make sure all you have left to do
> is die.