Cybersalt News

Sunday greetings everyone and welcome to November - 2d260!

Well, the Blue Jays lost the World Series: what a bummer.

I hope to be over it in 2 days, if/when I turn 60! 

Enjoy the rest of today's Digest. 

~ Pastor Tim 

On vacation with her family in Montana, a mother drove her van past a church in a small town and pointing to it, told the children that it was St. Francis' Church.

"It must be a franchise," her eight-year-old son said.  "We've got one of those in our town too."

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A Sunday school teacher challenged her children to take some time on Sunday afternoon to write a letter to God.  They were to bring back their letter the following Sunday.

One little boy wrote: "Dear God, We had a good time at church today. Wish You could have been there."

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Bouncing out of her first day in nursery school at Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church in Port Henry, New York, a three-year-old girl gleefully informed her mother: "We had juice and Billy Graham crackers!"

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Rev.  David A.  Stammerjohn, pastor of Laboratory Presbyterian Church, Washington, Pennsylvania, spent a week at the Synod school with his two children. The school's theme focused on Moses and the Exodus.

When they returned home, his five-year-old daughter excitedly greeted her mother: "Guess what, Mommy.  We made unleaded bread!"

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The old pastor made it to a practice to visit the parish school one day a week.  He walked into the 4th grade class, where the children were studying the states, and asked them how many states they could name.

They came up with about 40 names.  He jokingly told them that in his day students knew the names of all the states.

One lad raised his hand and said, "Yes, but in those days there were only 13."

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Four-year-old Tucker Jones attended the vacation Bible school at our church. The theme was "Discipleship and Saving Mother Earth."

His mother, Trish Jones, asked Tucker what he had learned.

He immediately told her all about "Jesus and the 12 recycles."

Sometimes I think I'm reasonably intelligent, and sometimes I click the remote car door lock a second or a third time for extra lockiness.

I just found out Albert Einstein was a real person!

All this time I thought he was a theoretical physicist.

"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."

- George Monbiot

May God bless you with a restless discomfort
At easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships
So that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger
At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.

May God bless you with tears
To shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger and war,
So that you reach out your hand to comfort them and
To turn their pain into joy.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness
To believe that you can make a difference in the world,
So that you can do what others claim cannot be done
To bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.

- Sister Ruth Fox

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

I must confess I sometimes get so busy that certain things have slipped my mind. I don't do this intentionally, but I try to prioritize things in my life.

With so many things going on, it is tough to keep up-to-date with everything, even personal items.

This is not true with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. No matter how busy her day is, she always keeps up with everything. She knows things that are happening a week before they actually happen. How she does that, I don't know, and trust me, I am not going to inquire.

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