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THE YEAR 1906
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1906. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906: The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had […]
Making a Difference
(~) Making a Difference The following story comes from John Shay, Sr.: A group of dinner guests were sitting around a table discussing life. A CEO decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, “What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?” […]
For Breast Cancer
April 11, 2006 9:51 AM The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on “fund free mammograms” […]
Pandora’s Music
Pandora If you enjoy music then here’s one out of the box. According to the site, “Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. It’s powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite […]
Learning stillness in the storms of life
Time in the Back of the Boat: Learning stillness in the storms of life. by Kirk Byron Jones One night, during a busy season of speaking engagements, I suddenly stopped preaching before the sermon was over. I turned to the pastor and said tersely, “I can’t go on!” I had come to my limit. I […]
The Old Phone
When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the polished, old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to […]
Churchgoing Can Add Years to Your
Study: Churchgoing Can Add Years to Your Life Tuesday, April 04, 2006 By Robert Roy Britt There are many things you can do to increase your life expectancy: exercise, eat well, take your medication … and go to church. A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked […]
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
From Mark: There are many good links to each point on the web page. Worth a visit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Harold S. Kushner (1981)–notes by Doug Muder (1997) a.. Introduction, Why I wrote this book. Kushner wrote this book as a reaction to personal tragedy–his son Aaron had premature aging, which he died from. This provoked […]
Great Moments In Engineering
(~) GREAT MOMENTS IN ENGINEERING In a recent issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from “Feathers,” the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story: The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a […]
Todays Inspiration
TODAYS INSPIRATION A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it […]
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