Meditation and Prayer...Blog Day

August 16, 2012

This is the BLOG DAY Blog that I plan to send out quarterly to pause and reflect about where I am with my Blogging! I will continue this blog where I left off soon so hang in there. I love to Blog because that is about all I have to keep my mind going. Here is a little story my Great grandma Austin told me that you may enjoy for this short Blog:

A Short Story Before I Continue

I want to tell you a story that my Great grandma Austin told me about people that called her "senile". Since we are all advancing in years I thought it very appropriate and fitting to tell what this 85 year old grand old lady told me when I was about 7 years old.
I remember I had asked her what the word "senile" meant, I had heard it used and remembered it.
She told me that the word "senile" was best discribed (her view) by comparing my brain of 7 to her brain of 85 years. She told me that we could compare my brain to books in a library like the Spencer library (the town where I lived of 7,000 population) She continued to say that her 85 year old brain had many more books in it. She compared her brain to the Library of Congress in Washingto D.C.(with almost every book written in the US).

She told me that when a young person 20 to 40 years old would ask her a question. she would go to her imaginary library of books in her brain and begin going through the rows and stacks of books to find the answer. Compared to me looking for an answer it took her much longer to sort through all the books in her brain and these younger people were not very patient and could not wait for her answer so they stopped and called her "senile" for the reason.
I think that is so good an explaination especially noe that I am going to be 71 in a few days and so far God has blessed me with a fairly good memory. Like another one of my classmates told me. She didn.t have altzhimers...she called her condition "Sometimers". that's what I have at times!!!! (Thanks Elaine)

Later and GB

Dr Dave

God's Accuracy

Wednesday June 27, 2012

I just received this from a very good friend. I am not sure where it came from orginally but, nevertheless I wanted to pass it on to you. Please read and you will gain some wisdom maybe!

Subject: Fwd: God's Accuracy .........The Facts

This is awesome! How Great is our God!!!

Our Creator and Redeemer . . . and do we
THINK about it ??? God's accuracy may be
observed in the hatching of eggs.. . . . .
For example: -the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in
42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number
of days in a week!)

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.
The four legs of this great beast all bend forward
in the same direction. No other quadruped is so
made. God planned that this animal would have a
huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this
reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise
from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front
legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two
hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works
of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of
sections and segments, as well as in the number
of grains.
-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes
on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an
even number of bananas, and each row decreases
by one, so that one row has an even number and
the next row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to

the minute in all kinds of weather.

-All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks,
and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a
hundred fold all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain
specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the great
botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory
containing the right kind of soil, moisture and
temperature, he could tell the time of day or night
by the flowers that were open and those that were
closed!
The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord
in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only
entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your
own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only
the One Who made the brain and the heart can
successfully guide them to a profitable end.
I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I
DID. May God Bless You In Ways You Never Even
Dreamed. I didn't think twice about forwarding this one.

The Bible
When you carry "the Bible", Satan has
a headache, when you open it, he collapses,
when he sees you reading it, he loses his strength,
AND when you stand on the Word of God,
Satan can't hurt you! And did you also know...
When you are about to forward this email to others,
the devil will probably try
to discourage you, but do it anyway.

"Life without God is like an
unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

A Life Handbook to Consider Using

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A Handbook for Life

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.

2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy

5. Make time to pray.

6. Play more games

7. Read more books

8. Sit in silence for at least 30 minutes each day

9. Sleep for at least 8 hours.

10. Take a 5 to 10 minute walk daily (if over 70). And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

12. Don't have negative thoughts or worry about things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

13. Don't overdo. Keep your limits.

14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

16. Dream more while you are awake

17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..

18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.

20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

23. Smile and laugh more.

24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree....

Society:

25. Call your family often.

26. Each day give something good to others.

27. Forgive everyone for everything..

28. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

30. What other people think of you is none of your business.

31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!

33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

34. GOD heals everything.

35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change..

36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

37. The best is yet to come..

38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.

39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.