Everything You Don't Know and Didn't Ask About..."Stress"!

“STRESS”- Lesson

A young lady confidently walked around the room while leading and explaining stress management to an audience with a raised glass of water. Everyone knew she was going to ask the ultimate question, 'half empty or half full?'... She fooled them all.... "How heavy is this glass of water?" she inquired with a smile. Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. To 20 oz. She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." She continued, "and that's the way it is with stress. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on." "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden - holding stress longer and better each time practiced. So, as early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don't carry them through the evening and into the night... Pick them up tomorrow.  * Accept the fact that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue!  * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.  * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.  * Drive carefully... It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.  * If you can't be kind…   At least have the decency to be vague. * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.  * Never buy a car you can't push.  * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.  * Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.  * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.  * The second mouse gets the cheese.  * When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.  * Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.  * Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.  * We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.  * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.  * Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY...  *Save the earth..... It's the only planet with chocolate!* Today someone asked me if I liked you. I laughed, and I said, "Ha! That's funny!! I absolutely LOVE that woman!! She's funny, caring, crazy as heck, sweet, beautiful. She's reading this right now & I love her!!" Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~ "Oh Crap, She's up!"

The Missing Day!

This is interesting!

For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have

a hard time convincing people regarding the truth of the Bible,

here's something that shows God's awesome creation, and that He is

still in control.

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Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has

been called "myth" in the Bible is true?  Mr.Harold Hill, President of

the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in

the space program, relates the following development.

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I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us

today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at

Green Belt, Maryland.  They were checking out where the positions of the sun,

moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now.  We have to

know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something 

later on, in its orbits.  We have to lay out the orbits in terms of

the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole

thing will not bog down.

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They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries,

and it came to a halt.  The computer stopped and put up a red signal,

which meant that there was something wrong with either the information fed 

into it or with the results as compared to the standards.  They

called in the service department to check it out, and they said, "What's

wrong?"

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Well, they found there is a day missing in space in lapsed time.

They scratched their heads and tore their hair.  There was no answer.

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           Finally a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was

in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still."  While

they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said,

"Show us."  He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they

found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with "common sense."

         There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have

delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand

before thee."  Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy

and if darkness fell, they would overpower them.  So Joshua asked the

Lord to make the sun stand still!!!

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That's right... "The sun stood still and the moon stayed and lasted

not to go down about a whole day (Joshua 10:12-13)!"  The astronauts and 

scientists said, "There is the missing day!"  They checked the

computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but

not close enough.  The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day

was 23 hours and 20 minutes...not a whole day. They read the Bible,

and there it was "about (approximately) a day."  These little words in

the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you 

cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000

years from now.  Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied 

many times over in orbits.

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          As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere

in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS.  The scientists told

him he was out of his mind, but they got out the "Book" and read these

words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his death

bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going

to die.

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Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, "Do you want the sun

to go ahead 10 degrees?"  Hezekiah said, "It is nothing for the sun to

go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees."  Isaiah

spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD!

Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes!

Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in

Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!" Isn't it amazing?

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                            References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.

"Heavenly Humor" (and other witticisms)

"Heavenly Humor"

During these serious and troubled times, people of all faiths should

remember these four great religious truths:

1.  Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s Chosen People.

2.  Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

3.  Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world.

4.  Baptists do not recognize each other at the liquor store.

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SAY A PRAYER

Little Johnny and his family were having Sunday dinner at his Grandmother’s house.  Everyone was seated around the table as the food was being served.  When Little Johnny received his plate, he started eating right away.

“Johnny!  Please wait until we say our prayer,” said his mother.

“I don’t need to,” the boy replied.

“Of course, you do,” his mother insisted.  “We always say a prayer before eating at our house.”

“That’s at our house,” Johnny explained.  

“But this is Grandma’s house and she knows how to cook.”

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Pure... Relevant... Humor!!!

“The Older We Get…"

ONE
Recently when I went to McDonald's, I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.  I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
(must have been the same one I asked for sweetener and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)
TWO
I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.  After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.  Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'  I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'  She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(Keep shuddering!!)
FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. 

As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I 
replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries…it’s a long walk…'.

PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself!!!
FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?'

'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five, 

'blank' copies.
(And she was a brunette, believe it or not)
SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants.. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine. The mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'
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Life is tough…It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!
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Being Green (an Ode For the Ages)

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't...

good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.

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"What one believes they are, they will become!

What do you believe"?

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