Diane was getting real discouraged over the lack of finding a steady man in her life.
In an attempt to lift her spirits, her friend Christina said, "There's a man for every woman and a woman for every man. You can't change that."
Diane replied, "I don't want to change it! I just wanna get in on it."
Little Mary was at her first wedding and gaped at the entire ceremony.
When it was over, she asked her mother, "Why did the lady change her mind?"
Her mother asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another one."
"In the untouched beauty and majesty of God's creation, we begin to understand God's great appreciation of things beautiful. Only man's touch on God's creation taints it with ugliness."
- A. W. Tozer, And He Dwelt Among Us
A man had finally got around to taking all his broken umbrellas to the repair shop.
Next morning on his way to his office when he got up to leave the street car, he absentmindedly laid hold of the umbrella belonging to the woman beside him for he was in the habit of carrying one.
The woman cried "Stop! Thief!" She grabbed her umbrella back and embarrassed the poor man no end!
That same day, he stopped at the repair shop, and received all eight of his umbrellas duly restored. As he entered the street car, with the unwrapped umbrellas tucked under his arm, he was horrified to behold, glaring at him, the lady of his morning's misadventure.
Her voice came to him charged with a withering scorn: "Had a good day, didn't you!"
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"God, please give me the confidence of a 25 year old life coach."