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Think happy thoughts. This is a pretty important thing to do. Attitude
can affect your entire body. Stress and being sad or negative can wreck
havoc on you. Not only are you poor company, but it can make you sick.
It is therefore very important for you to be able to flip it to the
Orangy or Happy side.
Today we have a full teaching that shows us how to do this...
>-->From TruthOrTradition: Finding Happiness in an Unhappy World
Adversity, affliction, pain, and suffering are a part of everyone’s
life. With Satan and his evil minions causing problems, the problems we
have due to the world being in a fallen state in the first place, the
problems that others cause for us, and the problems we cause ourselves
due to our own sin and ignorance, suffering is a given until Jesus sets
up his kingdom. If we are going to live happy, joyful, productive lives,
it is not going to be because we get rid of all affliction and
suffering. Rather, it will be because we learn to be happy and joyful in
spite of the pains of this life.
Who would not say, “I want to be happy”? Everyone desires this too often
evasive feeling. It seems logical that if God created the world for
people, and God is love (1 John 4:8b), that everyone would be happy, at
least most of the time. Yet true happiness eludes most people, not just
sometimes, but throughout most of their lives. Why?
Most people’s first response would be: “Because life is so hard, and
there is so much pain and suffering.” It is true that hardship, pain,
and suffering make it more difficult to be happy, and everyone will be
unhappy at times. Ecclesiastes tells us that in every life there is “a
time to weep” and “a time to mourn.” However, it also tells us that
there is “a time to laugh” (Eccles. 3:4). If we are ever going to laugh
from our heart, and be genuinely happy at least some of the time, there
are some basic things that we must understand about happiness, chiefly
that it is a by-product, not an end in itself.
Happiness is not something we can achieve by striving for it alone, nor
by focusing on it as a goal. If that were the case, we could assume that
since there are millions of people who want to be happy, at least some
of them would have achieved it and told others how to achieve it too. If
millions of people wanted to climb Mt. Everest, for example, many would
make it. Why is it that people who strive for happiness are not happy?
One of the main reasons is that happiness is a by-product of something
else, something meaningful that a person does in his life.
Let us compare happiness to the ordinary housecat. Often, if you want it
to come to you so you can hold it, it stays away, sometimes seemingly
just out of reach. If you pursue it, it moves away (usually under a
piece of furniture where you can see it but not reach it). Eventually
you give up trying to hold the cat, and get about doing your work around
the house. Shortly you feel something touching your ankle, and lo and
behold, the cat, which stayed away when pursued, is now rubbing against
your leg, wanting to be picked up.
Happiness is like that housecat. When we pursue it for its own sake, it
remains out of reach. For example, many people are surprised to find out
how little happiness material things bring. This is an area where our
flesh tricks us. We should all know that possessions do not make people
happy, because there are so many unhappy wealthy people who can buy
whatever they want. As the common proverb says: “Money can’t buy
happiness.” In spite of that, our flesh seems to say, “If I just had
(whatever), I would be happy.” Although it can be momentarily satisfying
to acquire what we thought would make us happy, the feeling does not
last long.
Like the housecat, happiness comes when we engage in work and other
activities that are meaningful to us. At those times our focus is not on
ourselves or our own happiness, but on what we are doing. It is while we
are engaged in a meaningful activity that we realize we are happy and
enjoying life. Therefore, it is important for us to find meaning in life
and the activities we engage in. This is often no small task. God
designed life to have meaning, but many people do not find it, and live
their lives the way the person who wrote Ecclesiastes started out.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
The book of Ecclesiastes contains the story of a person who calls
himself “the Teacher,” and who outlines his journey to find meaning in
life. He did many and varied things, looking for anything that held
inherent meaning. He tried gaining knowledge and wisdom, but discovered
“…with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more
grief” (1:18b). He tried fun and laughter, but concluded it was foolish
and accomplished nothing (2:1, 2). He tried wine and alcohol (2:3),
accomplishing great tasks (2:4-7), amassing wealth (2:8), entertainment
(2:8), and, of course, sex (2:8), but all to no avail. He did not know
God, and therefore he correctly understood that his final end, no matter
what he achieved or accomplished, was the grave, a hole in the ground,
and that eventually he and his activities would be forgotten (2:16). In
that light, nothing he did could be truly meaningful, because there was
no actual purpose for anything he did. With nothing in life that was
meaningful, he came to the point he “hated life” (2:17).
Thankfully, the teacher kept looking for meaning in life, and at some
point he had a revelation that set him on the right course.
Ecclesiastes 2:25
for without him [God], who can eat or find enjoyment?
Amen! What the teacher discovered was that the first and most basic step
to having meaning in one’s life was to realize that God created his life
to have meaning. The dictionary definition of “meaning” is “a purpose or
intention.” God intended to create us, that is, He had a purpose for us
before we existed. Existence in and of itself does not have meaning,
which is why atheists and people who believe that life is nothing more
than a series of random “accidents,” cannot find true purpose or
meaning. By their own definition, life has no meaning, i.e., no purpose
or intention, it is just an accident.
Once the teacher discovered that God had created him with a purpose, a
genuine meaning, he began to relate to life differently. He realized
that it was not the works he did that had inherent meaning, but rather
that it was his doing the work that had meaning. From that point of
view, he began to realize that he could find happiness in productive
work.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find
satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.
Notice that the teacher is not looking for happiness (satisfaction) on
its own. No, he lives his life, (“eats and drinks,”) and works, and
because he himself has meaning, he brings meaning to what he does, and
gets satisfaction and happiness “in” his work. The same holds true for
us. We bring the meaning to our work, and because God has created us the
way we are, there is some work more meaningful to us than other work. As
we engage life like that, thinking of ourselves and our work as having
meaning, we find that we are content and happy, without seeking to be
happy. This is the “housecat happiness” we discussed earlier.
It is important to make a distinction between happiness and joy. As we
use the terms, “happiness” relates more to a feeling of gladness or
contentment that is “outside in,” i.e., the meaningful and productive
activities a person is doing produces a feeling of gladness,
satisfaction, etc. “Joy,” on the other hand, is “inside out.” It is a
fruit of the spirit (Gal. 5:22) that a person experiences as he
endeavors to be like Christ and keeps in mind the hope that is in store
for him. The hope of healthy bodies on a newly created and wonderful
earth never changes, so no matter what a person is doing, or
experiencing, he can have joy. It is important to understand that,
though we cannot always be happy, we can always have joy. Often joy and
happiness occur at the same time, and this is certainly very desirable.
Just as we can always have joy because our basis for it never varies, so
too we should always be thankful. We have so much to be thankful for, in
fact, the Bible commands us to be thankful (Col. 3:15b). [1] One of the
keys to happiness is being thankful no matter what our circumstances
are. Attitude has much to do with whether we are happy or not. Certainly
there are times when circumstances in our lives make happiness at that
moment out of the question. No one should expect to be happy all the
time. However, it is not wrong to want as much happiness as possible.
As we look for meaning in our lives, it is helpful to realize that each
Christian is uniquely equipped by God to do great things for Him and for
other people. Corinthians tells us that each person is placed in the
Body of Christ as God wants him to be.
1 Corinthians 12:18
But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of
them, just as he wanted them to be.
Ephesians says that God has created each person for good works and we
are to do whatever good works we can. God has made it possible for you
to do good works here and now. In fact God has even prepared us for
this.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
It may take an individual time and effort to discover things that are
truly meaningful to him, but each of us can be assured that he has
meaningful work with which he can be satisfied. Ecclesiastes calls the
ability to find satisfaction in the work we do “the gift of God.”
Ecclesiastes 3:13
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his
toil—this is the gift of God.
The tie between meaningful work and happiness, or satisfaction, is a
major theme of Ecclesiastes, coming up many times, especially in the
opening chapters. We live in a fallen world, one that requires hard work
if we are to survive and prosper. God told that to Adam, and we should
expect the same difficulties.
Genesis 3:17b and 19a
(17b) …Cursed is the ground because of you [Adam]; through painful
toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
(19a) By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you
return to the ground….
Ever since the fall of man, life has been difficult, and this often
makes it hard to be happy. We in the United States of America have so
many laborsaving devices that we can be deluded into thinking that life
should be easy. Older generations knew it wasn’t. “Not until after the
War of 1812 did American terms like “easy” and “difficult” appear with
any frequency; before that, most people expected life and its necessary
tasks to be hard.” [2] Eventually we all discover that life is not easy,
so we must be clear about the fact that we can be happy in our work
whether it is easy or hard. Ecclesiastes was written long before
automobiles, dishwashers, washing machines, running water, or other
laborsaving devices, and it shows that people can be happy in their
lives even if the work is hard, if it is meaningful to us. Ecclesiastes
helps us understand this:
Ecclesiastes 5:18 (RSV)
Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and
drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the
sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his
lot.
The Revised Standard Version does a good job here of showing how God
emphasizes that life on earth is going to involve a lot of hard work.
The figure of speech Polyptoton is the repetition of the same word with
the same meaning, but in a different case, mood, tense, degree, number,
gender, etc. [3] In this case, the Polyptoton, “…toil with which one
toils…” emphasizes the extreme toil that life entails. In spite of that
toil, we see that it is possible, and even “fitting” to find enjoyment
or happiness, in it. After all, God put mankind on this earth, and
earthly life involves work, more work because of the Fall, to be sure,
but even Adam and Eve had jobs to do. They had to tend the Garden of
Eden, and guard it from the beasts of the field (Gen. 2:15). [4]
It is important that we do not see work as an obstacle, something
satanic that somehow robs us of happiness. God designed us to work and
derive happiness from, and during, our work. We can short-circuit our
happiness if we view work as undesirable. The media and the world around
us do a good job of making us think that work is something to be
avoided. There are dozens of sayings and mind-pictures in our
environment making it seem like work should be avoided at all costs.
This is a trick of the Adversary, who knows that happiness is not an end
in itself. He realizes that the more he can get people to focus on being
happy, the less happy they will be. We Christians need to be clear on
the fact that God created Adam and Eve with work to do, that there is
fruitful work to be done now, and there will be work to do in the future
kingdom. Seeing our purpose in life and thus bringing meaning to our
work now is a great key to happiness.
That is not to say that one can be happy in every task. There are many
things required of us that range from tedious to painful. It is
important that we are willing to do whatever it takes to live godly
lives. This can sometimes be easy, but it is usually difficult and time
consuming. Everyone has hardship and suffering, and nothing we do can
change that. No amount of prayer will reverse God’s declaration to Adam
that he (and his descendants) would experience “painful toil.” No amount
of money will buy happiness.
What can we do to have happier, more fulfilled lives? It all starts with
developing a relationship with God that will bring meaning to our lives.
We must also develop the fruit of the spirit known as joy, and learn to
be thankful, focusing on the blessings of the Lord, which are so
numerous. We must have a positive attitude about work, see it as
something valuable, and as a blessing and a gift from God (Col. 3:23).
As we bring meaning to our work, and work at fruitful tasks, we will
find that even amidst adversity and hardship, we are happy much more of
the time.
This great teaching is from:
http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=623
Happiness
For more on being Christ Like:
http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=19
Christ like topics
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>-->From AndyChaps: "Nothing at all" By Bob Perks: Bob@BobPerks.com
He sat there on the edge of the bed with his face nestled in his hands.
He was remembering a time when things were better.
"It seemed like such a short time ago when we were happy," he said as he
lifted his head.
"If only I could turn back the clock," he moaned.
His life was supposed to be different.
His dreams were meant to come true.
But here he sat with nothing at all
And nothing more he could do.
He didn't know that he heard him
He thought he was completely alone
But his son was there in the doorway
Hearing his Daddy moan.
He ran to his room to find one
Then hurried back to his side
He said "Daddy, here.
I turned back the clock."
Are you happy?" he asked and Dad cried.
The man on bed was speechless
You see, God had answered his plea
"Whenever you think you have nothing at all," God said.
Remember, my son, you have me!"
"I believe in you!"
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>-->From InspiredBuffalo: INVESTMENTS By: Joseph J. Mazzella
I have a friend who is a rich investor. He doesn’t wear thousand
dollar suits, however. I have never seen him in anything but old, work
shirts and blue jeans. He doesn’t drive an expensive car either. I doubt
if he has ever even owned a new car. He doesn’t live in some fancy
mansion on a hill. His house is old and his furniture is worn, but that
doesn’t bother him at all. You see my friend is an investor in goodness.
He doesn’t earn any money from it, but the dividends he receives make
him one of the richest men I know.
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young boy after he fixed the boy’s bicycle. It was worth a fortune. I
remember the warm thanks he got when he helped a poor family repair
their home before Winter arrived. It was a treasure beyond compare. My
friend never hoards the wealth he gets back from his "good" investments,
either. He just keeps reinvesting them in his community and in this
world everyday of his life.
One of the greatest things about my friend’s investments too is
that we all can make them. I intend to make as many of them as I can
every chance that I get. There is no risk involved either. Henry David
Thoreau said, "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Invest
in some goodness today then. Help a neighbor. Share some laughter with
your friends. Give a smile to everyone you meet. Take your wealth of
love, joy, and oneness with God and invest it in everything you do. I
guarantee you that the return on your investments will be incredible and
your compound interest will be out of this world. You might even become
a goodness billionaire like my friend. He knows as well as anyone what
the true riches of this world and the next world really are.
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stared in amazement at the billowy clouds. With the innocence of a
child, I noticed the clouds as if I have seen them for the first time.
There they hung in the sky, so full, white, light and airy. Indeed,
they looked massive, but those in the know are aware clouds are as
light as feathers, consisting of nothing but water vapors and air.
I am reminded of how problems we face in life may appear the same way;
massive, yet once we have passed them, we often look back and say,
"That wasn't so bad. It wasn't as difficult as I feared."
It is easy to feel overwhelmed during the face of adversity, but let us
not forget that when compared to the greater scheme of things, most of
life's bumps and bruises are no more frightening than the silly old
cloud which looms high above our head. The sting of puppy-love jilted
seems as if we will never again know love, but before you know it, love
finds us again. A dented fender that sends our spouse in a tizzy may
seem serious at the time, but in a few days the guy at the garage calls
to tell you your fender is fixed and good as new!
Life has enough REAL hurts that we really shouldn't try to add dozens of
smaller ones to our daily existence. Life is too short, and time is too
precious. Trust in God and His abilities, and before you know it, all
obstacles will seem as light as... a cloud.
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>-->The Christmas Invitation by: Ron Hutchcraft
It was the biggest night of the year in a little town called Cornwall.
It was the night of the annual Christmas pageant. It's an especially big
deal for the children in town -- they get to try out for the roles in
the Christmas story. Everybody wants a part.
Which leads us to the problem of Harold. Harold really wanted to be in
the play, too, but he was - well, he was kind of a slow and simple kid.
The directors were ambivalent - I mean, they knew Harold would be
crushed if he didn't have a part, but they were afraid he might mess up
the town's magic moment. Finally, they decided to cast Harold as the
innkeeper - the one who turns Mary and Joseph away the night Jesus is to
be born. He had only one line - "I'm sorry, we have no room." Well, no
one could imagine what that one line was going to do to everyone's
Christmas…
The night of the pageant the church was packed, as usual. The Christmas
story unfolded according to plan - angels singing, Joseph's dream, and
the trip to Bethlehem. Finally, Joseph and Mary arrived at the door of
the Bethlehem inn, looking appropriately tired. Joseph knocked on the
inn door, and Harold was there to open the door.
Joseph asked his question on cue - "Do you have a room for the night?"
Harold froze. After a long pause, Harold mumbled his line, "I'm sorry -
we have no room." And, with a little coaching, he shut the door. The
directors heaved a sigh of relief - prematurely. As Mary and Joseph
disappeared into the night, the set suddenly started shaking again - and
the door opened. Harold was back! And then, in an unrehearsed moment
that folks would not soon forget, Harold went running after the young
couple, shouting as loud as he could -- "Wait! Don't go Joseph. Bring
Mary back! You can have MY room!"
I think little Harold may have understood the real issue of Christmas
better than anyone else there that night. How can you leave Jesus
outside? You have to make room for Jesus. And that may be the issue for
you this Christmas. What will you do with this Son of God who came to
earth to find you?
Jesus is the One who trades a throne room for a stable, and the praise
of angels for human mockery. This is the Creator who gives Himself on a
cross! The Bible gives us the only appropriate response: "The life I now
live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for
me." (Gal. 2:20) You look at what Jesus did to pay for your sin on that
cross, and you say those life-changing words - "For me."
Jesus is at YOUR door this Christmas. Maybe He's been knocking for a
long time. Maybe He won't keep knocking much longer. All your life -
even the events of the last few months - have been to prepare you for
this crossroads moment with Jesus your Savior. Don't leave Him outside
any longer. Open the door this Christmas Day. "Jesus, I cannot keep You
out any longer. Come on in. You can have my room . . . my life."
For more on how to begin life's most important relationship,
visit http://www.yoursforlife.net
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>-->Bush Says - More Troops To Iraq...
Do I agree? I don't know. I do know one thing though, people that hate
freedom will always be against America. We have to do all we can to
help others who want freedom to be able to have it. Without Freedom,
people don't have a chance to know God. They are TOLD what religion to
believe in. That was what was going on in Iraq. They were told who
to watch on TV. They were told what to do and who to pray to. Now that
they have tasted freedom, they will fight and some will die to try and
keep it. Do we bail on them now? Do we say enough is enough and it is
up to you now?
Here is a reminder from the past from AndyChaps:
MUST READ...article from London Daily Mirror
** Article from London's Daily Mirror **
Surprise! Surprise! When one of the world's most liberal left wing
newspapers writes a great article like this, there is hope for everyone.
A thoughtfully written piece in one of the most left wing newspapers in
the UK.
Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar with
the UK's Daily Mirror. This is one of the most notorious Left wing,
anti-American dailies in the UK. Hard to believe that the Daily Mirror
actually published it, but it did.
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ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the
mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the
pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol
Pot's Mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked
like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so
cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world
could agree on one thing -- nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
increasingly seen as America's comeuppance [deserved reprimand or
punishment].
Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year. There
has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country -- too
loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than
Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to
me. More than that, it turns my stomach. America is this country's
greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by
culture, language and blood.
A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died
for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon?
And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children
-- not just Americans, but from dozens of ccountries -- were butchered by
a small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?
What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on
the planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers,
somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And
children. Some unborn.
And these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is to
blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?
These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul
or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame
the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives
suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can
do what it likes without having to ask permission.
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11. Remember, remember! Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of
weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were
burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top
of burning skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.
Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one
of the planes with her mum. Remember, remember -- and realize that
America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could
have.
So, a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked up without a trial in Camp
X-ray? Pass the Kleenex. So, some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up
after they merrily fired their semiautomatics in a sky full of American
planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.
AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking
lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength.
American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq -
that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have
a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many
Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/1
was an abomination?
When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that --
and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is
the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that
9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell"
if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of
hell like you wouldn't believe. The US is the most militarily powerful
nation that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in
Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq
may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these
wretched countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East,
or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand --
assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.
I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's
poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in
Riyadh. Above all, America is hated because it is what every country
wants to be -- rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by
the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend
this country ever had and we should start remembering that.
Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the
loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the
burning towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on
one of the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing
skyscraper. And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands
worked for the New York Fire Department. To our shame, George Bush gets
a worse press than Saddam Hussein.
Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own
people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality
Street. Save me the orange center, oh mighty one!
Remember, remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in
human history was committed against America. No, do more than remember.
Never, never forget!
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>-->From PetWarmers: A BIG HEART by Anita Burney
One day up in heaven,
While God was looking down,
He saw people alone and sad,
And He gave a little frown.
He wanted to think of something,
To make those people smile,
Then the answer came to Him,
After He'd thought awhile.
He'd give them a companion,
One whose love was true,
Faithful they would be,
No matter what the people do.
Four legs they would have,
And they would never fail,
To greet these people every time,
With a happy wagging tail.
He'd give them a big heart,
To hold all the love inside,
That love would last forever,
Even after they had died.
For across that Rainbow Bridge,
Would be a special place,
Where they would wait and watch,
To see their master's face.
He thought of what to call it,
And then the answer came.
If you spell "God" backwards,
You'll have this animal's name.
-- Anita Burney
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Anita, who lives in Topeka, Kansas, says, "I am a retired consultant for
a printing and publishing company. My hobbies are writing poetry,
reading good books, and crocheting."
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Dear Petwarmers:
I am submitting the easy solution for removing all traces of
"Peppy" -- just use Coca Cola -- it removes the smell immediately with
no fancy recipes, is not harmful to animals or humans and washes off
easily. Of course, I don't know about snorting it!
I just shake up the bottle and aim it at the offending pet so I
don't have to get too close until eliminating most of the smell! Then I
rub it in and then hose it off. It also works in the wash for your
clothes and does not leave a stain. Just pour in a 2-liter bottle and
wash away the smell.
The only thing I never figured out how to get rid of was the taste
you still have afterwards -- every time you drink water you want to gag!
I even resorted to drinking the coke, which is not on my regular list of
things to drink!
-- Beth
To JOIN (it's free!), send an email to:
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Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects
you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau
Rom.8:28,29
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love
God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how
shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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