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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!
There is a new entry in the FunBlog today. Do you remember your first taste of bacon? I think this kid will for a long time. Check out "First Bacon" at:
www.cybersalt.org/funblog/first-bacon
Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!
Today's CleanLaugh
The Difference of a Year
Our seven-year-old daughter was thrilled when we took her to Disney World for the first time, and she headed straight for Space Mountain.
I worried that the roller coaster would be too scary for her, but she insisted.
To her delight, we rode it twice.
The next year we returned to the Magic Kingdom, and my daughter, now eight, again dragged me to Space Mountain.
As we stood in line, though, I could see her soberly studying the signs that warn about the ride's speed.
"Dad," she said, "I don't think I want to go."
I asked her why she would be nervous when she had enjoyed herself last time.
She replied, "This year, I can read."
Today's One-liner
One-liner #1010
It's taken me hours, but I finally put together this IKEA joke.
Today's Clean Pun
Self Denial
Self Denial: I'll be giving up navel-gazing for Lint.
Today's Quote
Quote #1458
"I find the Trinity endlessly interesting but hopelessly above my pay grade and station."
- Leonard Sweet
Today's Illustration
Look to Christ
What does it mean to look to Christ? William Fenner (1600–1640) explains:
"When a man looks to Christ in such a way that he follows him; when a man sees him as his only means of being happy, godly, and in the favor of God, the only means to do and be well, and genuinely desires to follow after him - this is to look up to Christ.
When a man sincerely labors to follow the counsel and direction of Christ in all his ways, he bids him deny himself - and that is the thing that he labors for. He bids him repent of all his sins, ply himself to all God’s holy paths, and rely upon him for strength and acceptance, mercy and pardon, and every blessing.
Whatever he looks for at the hands of God, he sets himself to follow Christ’s counsel, and to expect it in him. If he sees his sins, he looks up to Christ, and there he sees Christ’s death defraying them; when he sees what power they have over him, he looks up to Christ for his Spirit to subdue them according to all the means that he has appointed - namely, by prayer, meditation, watchfulness, striving, purposing, endeavoring, and fighting against all the lusts of his flesh.
And in whichever ways he may fail, he labors to be humbled, and to continue looking up to Christ for forgiveness and more help against another time."
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