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Sunday greetings everyone.

I am definitely ready for a day of rest today after a very full day of work yesterday, which included finishing off a major project for a client. Working hard is not the only reason to take a day off, but it is one of the more enjoyable ones.

I always hope that you will enjoy my video shares, but I hope that today's results in boredom!
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest. 

~ Pastor Tim 

It was the first day of school.

As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms.

He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed to be making the most noise.

He seized the lad, dragged him to the hall, and told him to wait there until he was excused.

Returning to the classroom, the principal restored order and lectured the class for half an hour about the importance of good behavior.

Now," he said," are there any questions?

"One girl stood up timidly.

"Please sir," she asked, "May we have our teacher back?"

"Where is exactly is your teacher?"

"He's in the hall, sir."

My September goal is to be less condescending.

(Condescending means to talk down to people.)

My anatomy class had to assemble a human skeleton, and I hid one of the arm bones as a joke.

No one found that humerus.

- photo by Susan Page"Never do the flowers of grace grow more than in the showers of repentant tears"

- Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance

My daughter and I planted four trees in our backyard recently. They were little more than twigs when she brought them home. She was able to hold all four of them in the palm of one hand. Still, with faith in the future I dug the holes in our backyard and with loving care my daughter planted each one of the saplings.

When I look out on them now I smile. They are so small and yet so full of life.

As they stretch towards the morning sun and slowly grow upward to the sky I can see the hundreds of glorious years that lie ahead of them. Soon they will be filling the air around them with life giving oxygen. Soon they will be blessing the world with their sweet smell and comforting shade. Soon they will be changing the world for the better just by being in it.

What most of us don't realize is that we can change the world for the better just by being in it too.

When we go out of our homes each morning we don't see just how many trees of goodness that we can plant each day. Every single smile that we share plants a little more light in another's heart. Every single act of kindness that we do plants a little more kindness and happiness in this world. Every single moment of joy that we spread puts new seedlings of joy in the souls around us. Every single bit of love that we give plants another sapling of Heaven here on Earth. We may only think of ourselves as tiny twigs, but in our lifetimes we all can do more good than a forest of Redwoods.

Don't be afraid to try and change the world for the better then. Remember that you are a Child of God put here to fill this world with love and joy. With God's love in your heart and with God's joy in your soul you can help to create a never-ending forest of goodness in this world just by planting one sapling at a time.

- Joseph J. Mazzella

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.

Rev. James Snyder, God's Penman, writes . . . . 

I like celebrating anything and everything. After all, who doesn’t like party time?

Thinking along this line it occurred to me this month I will be celebrating my birthday. I pondered this for a while and was trying to figure out which birthday I should celebrate.

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