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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

Grandma Cybersalt and I are wondering if anyone out there would like to help by making the Cleanguote graphics that go out in the Cybersalt Digest? If you are, drop me an email at [email protected].

We'll supply the quotes and also the size requirements and other details. All you need to be is creative and able to make them. You see them in each edition but to refresh your memory of the style of some of them, you can check out recent ones at:
www.cybersalt.org/inspiration/quotes 

Today's video share is from "The Carbonaro Effect" - a hidden, magic, TV show that we have been recently enjoying on YouTube. This one is one of our favourites, so far.
You can view the video by clicking here.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

~ Pastor Tim

Sunday greetings everyone!

If the saying, "The best things in life are free" is true, kindness has to be one of the best things in life.

It costs nothing to be kind to someone. Gentle words of encouragement or appreciation come at the same zero price as not correcting or chastising someone who clearly knows they made a mistake. Going over to talk to a person who is desperately alone in a crowd, or listening to another person's story and then not telling the better one that happened to you, cannot be bought.

The burdens lifted, hope restored, loneliness chased away, and self-worth felt because of such acts, and many more like them, is unmeasurable - especially when you stop to consider that those results may occur simultaneously in the giver and receiver, with unpredictable, ongoing results for both.

That said, there is also be a great price to being kind. The sheer act of trying to see life through another's eyes requires a challenging self-emptying and vanquishing of all the conditions that stand in the way of our being and acting unconditionally toward others. And if we are successful in that, we may then have to invest further creativity, time, money, and energy, into following through because of what we have seen, lest we turn away and end up being unkind.

This is why kindness is also dangerous, because to pursue it guarantees we are going to be changed one way or the other.

Today's video share is of an act that is all of the above and took many kind people to pull off.

Click watch to listen the video.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

It has been a pretty busy day here at Cybersalt World Headquarters, so this week the news is not news: wherever you are - be it morning, afternoon, evening or tomorrow - I hope you are well!

Today's video share is a fun car race that I am sure all the drivers (and engines) will remember for along time!
You can view the video by clicking here.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

~ Pastor Tim

Sunday greetings everyone!

I had another "time is flying by moment" yesterday when I learned of the passing of singer B.J. Thomas.

I became a follower of Jesus in the fall of 1979, when I was 13. A couple of year's later I bought one of B.J.'s records (technically it was a cassette) and listened to it countless times. That would have been around 1981, which was 40 years ago! It blows my mind that those memories I have are as old as the amount of time that Israel wandered in the desert after being freed from Egypt.

As if that "40 years" math result was not enough to make me feel my age, I searched YouTube for the first song that came to mind from that cassette; "His Eye is On the Sparrow." That was an eye opener too, because as I listened to it for the first time in decades, I thought "You listened to that when you were a teenager? You are OLD!"

Listening to it again has reminded me of my teenage faith in Jesus and the promise and hope that in all the things I had ahead of me (known and unknown) His eye was on me and He would be with me. It's a popular conversational icebreaker to ask people what they would tell their younger selves if they could travel back in time. But in matters of faith, we might do just as well to ask what our younger selves would say to us if they could travel forward in time.

After all, what was true in 1981 is still true today, even if a lot has changed in 40 years.

Not surprisingly, todays "video" share is B.J. Thomas singing "His Eye is On the Sparrow."

Click here to listen the video.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim