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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

I cannot tell a lie, the cherry tree is almost totally picked. Grandma Cybersalt is OK if birds pick the little bit that is remaining, so we have removed the protective nets.

If you find washing dishes stresses you out, today's video share shows something to try instead that will help calm you!
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Enjoy the rest of today's digest!

~ Pastor Tim 

Co-workers sympathized as my mother complained that her back was really sore from moving furniture.

"Why don't you wait till your husband gets home?" someone asked.

"I could," my mother told the group," but the couch is easier to move if he's not on it."

My boss said I intimidate my coworkers; so I stared at him until he apologized.

What's the difference between a poorly dressed man on a tricycle and a well-dressed man on a bicycle?

Attire.

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

- Dwight L. Moody

One of my favorite stories is about a little girl who was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent's demand to know where she had been.

The little girl replied that she had stopped to help Janie, whose bicycle was broken in a fall.

"But you don't know anything about fixing bicycles," her mother responded.

"I know that," the girl said. "I just stopped to help her cry."

Not many of us know anything about fixing bicycles, either. And when our friends have fallen and broken, not their bicycles but their lives, NONE of us knows how to fix that. We simply cannot "fix" someone else's life, even though that's what we would like most to do.

But like the little girl, we can stop to help them cry. That is the best we can do. And that is a lot!

- Murray Lancaster

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Susan Page writes . . . . 

- photo by Susan PageA title can make or break a book! Finishing Well: It happens by choice, not by chance, is an insightful book by Rev. John Garner. I love the title, and it’s a great read. I came across another book called The Final Lap by John Wyatt. I haven’t read this book yet, and while it may be good, the title is not nearly as appealing. I’m not ready to say I’m on the final lap, although ultimately, my days are in God’s hands.

The expression “I’m retired” has lost its appeal for me, mostly because it’s associated with aging. I’m aware of the passing of time, but I don’t necessarily want to focus on it. So, what does retirement mean? Does it mean we are tired, and then we are re-tired? Is it time to put our name on the waiting list for the nursing home? (I’m speaking tongue-in-cheek, of course). People celebrate stepping back from full-time work and often use the term retirement, but I prefer to say that after 50 years in the workforce, I finally graduated. What does this graduation signify, and what will be next… before that final lap?

The Cybersalt Digest is a ministry of Pastor Tim and Cybersalt.