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Oh look, Chicken Thursday - and if you like the number 47, welcome to issue #4747!
Do you know what I struggle with managing? Bacn! No, that is not a typo for the word "bacon" (which my low-fat diet all but forbids me to eat) - I mean "bacn."
I think we are all familiar with unsolicited emails being referred to as "spam" - the same name for a very mysterious sandwich meat. Well, "bacn" is a term for emails we have requested. For instance, each time my security camera is triggered to record something in my driveway, I get an email alerting me and giving me a link to watch a recording.
Another example of bacn would be the news updates I receive from the online bank through which my business receives payments from my international clients. Why, I dare say, this newsletter is an example of bacn - in that you subscribed to receive it (for which I am grateful.)
When it comes to emails I would like to have a zero inbox. I desire to read and deal with all the emails in my inbox by either deleting them or filing them away for further reference, thus freeing me from the visual and mental clutter of being behind on my emails. But bacn can really make that a challenge, because just like the ongoing tidying process in my shop, "e-decluttering" requires I make emotional decisions to stop receiving some emails I "might" get around to someday. Sometimes I just give in and select all of a certain kind of email and delete them en masse, but, of course, that's just a different kind of clutter and waste of time.
How is your bacn situation? Do you have any emails that you keep getting that you could unsubscribe from to help declutter your inbox and mind? But not the Cybersalt Digest, right? I hope talking about this topic doesn't generate too many unsubscribe notices in my inbox today - that's some of the worst bacn I get, lol!
Today's video share is "10 Beautiful Beetles That Look Like Jewelry." I'm still not sure I could let them crawl on me, though.
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~ Pastor Tim
Words to Ponder
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Everybody repeat after me: "We are all individuals"
Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
If at first your don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
One-Liner #1667
I've just written a song about tortillas; actually, it's more of a rap.
"Be a Billionaire!"
and Help
Refugees and
Persecuted Christians
Don't Judge a Stew by Its Cover
A young couple's marriage was suffering from her inability to cook. Things really got bad the night that the husband fished a piece of paper out of his stew.
He unfolded the paper and read, "Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the North-west died away."
Waving the soggy scrap, he demanded, "What on earth is this?!"
"Well," the young wife replied, "the recipe said that if the stew was too thin I should add some Browning."
Quote #2104
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
Mom Through the Ages
4 years old: My Mommy can do anything!
8 years old: My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 years old: My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
14 years old: Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
16 years old: Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 years old: That old woman? She's way out of date!
25 years old: Well, she might know a little bit about it.
35 years old: Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.
55 years old: Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 years old: Wish I could talk it over with Mom
Featured Illustrations are items well suited for illustrating or inspiring a point in a sermon, speech, or devotional. Funny, moving, or perhaps even graphic, the point of them is the point you make with them.
The Cybersalt Digest is a ministry of Pastor Tim and Cybersalt.