Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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June 8, 2007

Today’s Announcements

Carol, I just purchased your book and am looking forward to reading it... I will send you a poem soon too… Been working on my book and just got it finished. It takes up a multitude of one’s time as you very well know.

Please continue to pray for my daddy who just started back on chemo yesterday.  He was in the hospital for a week and has had such a very hard time.

Thank you Carol

Sandy J:  

sandy@pofahl.com

Today’s Stories

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The Great Flood

Bill Walker

missourisage@yahoo.com

I like to read what others say about something we do know took place. Well there is maybe different thoughts on how it came about, it makes for thoughts on the reasons, and the why of it happened.  Now while I was reading this long super sized article, I found many takes off on things also related to it.

There is many mysteries wrote into the Bible, and people do wonder about lots of things. We will never uncover and understand every thing.  I think like this, there is room for a few thoughts on about any thing, and who is total right all the time on any matter.  It is wise to read what others say, and then say well maybe.  Besides how is a poor person going to learn anything if shuts up the mind like a steel trap?

Some where in all this reading, I found a line about where did Cain find a wife?  Now if you think and remember a bit of other history.  There was a man from Nebraska, a great lawyer of many years ago. Name of William Jennings Bryan. In the so called Monkey Case, the lawyer that was for the Monkey, asked Bryan the question. Who did Cain marry, where did the woman come from? Bryan was a great church person, he could thump with a Bible on the best of them.  Bryan never answered the question, he was total lost. We all can be lost on the question if we don't stop and think what the Bible says.

There was only one woman he could have married, well he might have has a pick, but he married a sister, had to. All of us if we could trace family tree goes back to Adam and Eve. Read your Bible, it tells you so.  Now don't get up tight and say no,, can't marry a sister.  God didn't tell to put a stop to such till much later. I think that came about in Moses time, again read your Bible.

Now then, the Ark, the greatest ship ever built till the last couple hundred years. Also unsinkable, ships built since that time does, and can sink. That sucker was big, a super size job. Now this part of the writings of some real super smart person, got me lost a few times. I don't think there is any easy answers to many things. Now I may look stupid, and I may be stupid. But I know a few things, not much but a few things. This brain that put all this together, said not every animal and so on was  welcomed on board, as the water would have not taken them out of the picture.  Now this person has just told about how bad things became on the outside for those that hadn't climbed aboard.  Man, woman, and child, it was one heck of a storm out there, wasn't fit weather for nothing.  It was worse then the wrecking crew of Nebraska football team of 1997. Ask a Gator,  now that was another animal or what ever that didn't need to be on board as this one writer had it figured. I beg to differ, this person said worms didn't need to get on board.  Well worms will die in water, so spin me another yarn. I don't need some college professor to tell me that, and maybe the college professor didn't study that part. I can't help but believe that there was a place made for each, and every thing God had made.  Man, woman, and child, it was a storm to end all storms. This person went on and told how bad the weather was, even a fish would have not lived through all the storms.

There is many points the person makes that, yes it makes sense, and that might well be the case, but to tell me a couple worms didn't get on board. What would Woody the Pecker Wood do if there wasn't a couple worms and bugs for him to be looking for?

For all that don't understand the line about, Man, Woman and Child.  I will try to explain it. A few years ago there was a fellow that was a radio sports man. He was Nebraska Football.  "MAN, WOMAN,and CHILD, look at Tommie Frazer go, why he went right up the middle, ripping Gators off right and left, Tommie went 50 yards for a touchdown."

Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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 ValueSpeak

A Weekly Column

By Joseph Walker

valuespeak@msn.com

THE LAW OF LIFE

            I’m not especially fond of snakes.

            No, that’s not right.  I can’t stand snakes.  No, that’s still not right.  I hate them.  No, “hate” isn’t right, either.  What is the right word?  Loathe?  Despise?  Abhor?  Detest?  Fear?

            Yes, that’s it.  Fear.  I fear snakes.  I fear them a lot.

            I know this is not a manly thing to admit.  Men are not supposed to be afraid of such things.  After all, little boys are at least in part made of “snakes and snails,” aren’t they?

            Which reminds me, I’m not especially fond of escargot, either.

            But snakes scare me to death.  I nearly walked out of the first Indiana Jones movie when the Nazis threw Indy and his female companion into the pit filled with snakes (only Nazis could be that diabolical).  The shot of a snake slithering out of a statue’s mouth just about did me in.

            “One more snake,” I told my date, “and I'm outta here.”

            Thankfully, snakesmanship wasn’t a high priority with my date.  She married me anyway.

            A few years ago I was walking along a mountain road with my two youngest children when we came upon a small garter snake sunning itself on the pavement.  I ran screaming to the other side of the road, startling the snake into a forked-tongued frenzy and sending Jon and Elizabeth into a fit of hysterical laughter.  They thought I was trying to be funny.

            I wasn’t.

            That said, there is one thing that I find fascinating about snakes.  Two or three times each year they go through a process called “molting,” during which they slither out of their scaly old skin and emerge to face the world in a scaly new skin – repulsive though it may be.  According to hissologists (or whatever you call people who study such things), snakes don’t shed their skins for aesthetics.  I mean, it’s not like they get the urge for a new outfit or anything like that.  There are important physiological factors having to do with their growth and development.  Simply stated, if snakes don’t make this change on a regular basis they will die.

            The same is true for humans, I think.  Not the skin thing.  The change thing.  If we don't make changes on a regular basis, we’ll die.  At the very least, we’ll stop growing and developing, which is sort of like dying only without the resting in peace.

            That’s why it’s a good thing that spring comes around every year.  While it’s true that spring weather can be unpredictable, with clear skies one minute and thunderstorms the next, and spring cleaning can be painful and/or traumatic, depending on the snap in your family taskmaster’s whip, it is also undeniably true that spring is a season of renewal.  Which makes it the perfect time for humans to shed the time-worn, travel-weary skin of habit and emerge to face the world clothed in a spanking new skin of adjusted attitudes and better behaviors.  Of course, we can make those changes at any time – not just in the spring.  But there’s something about spring that brings with it the extra vigor and vitality that significant change requires.

            And that’s just what we need to do this spring: we need to change.  We all do.  Whether it’s a minor peccadillo or a major character flaw, we need to fix it.  If it needs to be altered, alter it.  If it needs to be adjusted, adjust it.  And if it needs to be eliminated, eliminate it.  But do it now.  Today.  This week.  This spring.  Off with the old skin!  On with the new!  That’s how we grow.  That’s how we develop.  That’s how we change.  And change, said John F. Kennedy, “is the law of life.”

            For humans as well as snakes.

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Poetry Corner

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"M I R A C L E S"

Mary Carter Mizrany

Who opens a cocoon to
teach a butterfly to wing;
sculpts majestic mountains
instructs nightingales to sing?

Who fills oceans, rivers, streams
with wondrous creatures small and grand;
causes a lustrous pearl to form
from a single grain of sand?

Who heals a broken heart
with balm that's Heavenly;
makes the lame to walk
causes blinded eyes to see?

Heals a wounded spirit
a broken home restore;
resurrects it from the dead
that it is stronger than before?

Who calms a raging storm
with three words ~ "Peace, Be still";
tames a spirit of rebellion
by the power of His will?

Jesus Christ, God, The Son,
still does these things today;
may he make a special miracle,
my precious, Pat, for you, I pray!

Mary Carter Mizrany©

musingByMary@aol.com
April 30, 2007

Mary Carter Mizrany is a published writer on the internet
and in print.   As founder and moderator of On Wings of Faith Ministries,
Mary sends a bi~weekly devotional with prayers, as well as, founder
and moderator of two prayer groups.
http://www.onwingsoffaith.com
 

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 Carol, I could practically SEE this happen.  Sensational.
 
Tanja

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