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.

*****

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?"

*****

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!!!

*****

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.

*****

          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.

*****

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.