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I spend my days around my home and garden. I do crosswords etc, read, make music, watch TV and write letters. When I find myself talking audibly and answering questions on the quiz shows, then I know it’s time for me to use the phone. My sister Jean is the answer to that prayer, as we share so many memories, so we talk every day, usually twice.
I often ring other friends helping to brighten their day, and also brightening mine. I wish I could do more to help others and thank God for all the people He uses to bless me.
One of my Christmas gifts this year was a year’s subscription to ‘The Happy News’, a paper that celebrates all that’s good in the world, positive news and kind acts done by wonderful people. So wonderful! Acts often unseen and expecting nothing in return. Kindness, Love and Care are ours to share, costing only time, when the giver and receiver are both made happier. These are the gifts that come back to us, to share over and over again.
A pro-active version of the Serenity Prayer goes like this: 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 --
ITS ME!
Missing you all. Living in hope.
God bless you.
To Keep you
smiling
The story goes that some delegates to a church conference in Scotland set off between sessions to explore the countryside.
Presently they came to a stream spanned by a rickety bridge and started to cross, ignoring the warning to keep off.
A local inhabitant ran after them in protest. Misunderstanding his concern, one of the visitors called, “It’s alright, we are Anglicans from the conference.”
“I’m no’ caring about that,” was the reply, “but if ye dinna get off the bridge ye’ll all be Baptists.”
From ‘Christian Crackers, Church
Chuckles’ 1999
Pat
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