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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 8 — Issue 1 — January 8, 2008
Published every Tuesday
Hi, everyone! I'm unsure if this issue will be going out as scheduled on January 8, because I am experiencing major server/host problems. I am moving my site to a new host, and I'm experiencing major issues and frustrations, since I am not a tekkie. But whenever it gets to you, I hope that you enjoy. And I pray that things will be back to normal by next week.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
—2 Chronicles 7:14
Contents:
Top Sponsor
Weekly Contest
A Healthier You
Feature Article
Test Your Bible Knowledge
Classifieds
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English Lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
Top Sponsor
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This is a loud knock on your door to escape the rat race and take back control of your life. Will you open the door this time?
The ad contest is being carried over to the next available issue, which looks as if it's going to be some time in January, because several people have paid for this slot.
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
—Albert Einstein
A Healthier You
This is the 14th installment in our add/subtract lifestyle change, and this time we'll be subtracting. The following is a direct quote from Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About." I think it is right on!
"Psychiatrists and psychologists do not help the people they treat. Statistics show that the majority of people who are treated by psychiatrists and psychologists actually get worse!
Psychiatrists almost always prescribe drugs . . . some of the most dangerous and deadly pharmaceuticals . . . Did you know that in the last ten years, virtually every violent act committed in schools was perpetrated by a person who either had taken or was currently taking a psychiatric drug?
Finally, the research has become so compelling that there are warnings saying that certain psychiatric drugs actually increase the propensity to commit suicide.
This is such an important issue that I encourage you to read Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal, and if you are still not convinced that psychiatrists and psychologists should be avoided at all costs, I will personally make a donation to the charity of your choice."
Don't buy expensive jewelry cleaners!
Just drop two Alka Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes.
Feature Article
It's Time to Make Sense of Your Life!
Take charge of your life, once and for all.
Stop drifting! Stop "going along" just to get along—just because it's easier that way.
Dig your heels in and stand for something! Make a difference! Not tomorrow—today—you may not have tomorrow!
Choose the right thing to do. You know what you should do, but you let others influence and distract you.
Think for yourself!
Realize this: You are in charge of your life—and it's up to you to control it.
Get off that fence you're so fond of. Make up your mind to get on the right side of it, once and for all. Commit!
Who or what is the lord of your life? If it isn't Jesus, ask yourself this: What is it going to cost me if I choose not to serve Him and then die and find out I was wrong? The answer, of course, is everything and an eternity of suffering.
And then ask yourself: What is it going to cost me if I choose to serve Him and then die and find out I was wrong? The answer to this is a little time!
Plus you get to enjoy the perks in this life, such as, peace, joy, happiness, contentment, the security that comes from believing that your eternal life is assured, and the privilege of looking forward to it.
So think about your life as you embark on 2008, and make your life really count!
Fill in the blanks. "______ I leave with you, my ______ I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you."
1 — comfort
2 — wisdom
3 — peace
4 — power
Scroll down for the answer.
For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from
succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse
and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
—Brian Tracy
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us,
we can control what happens inside us.
—Benjamin Franklin
Today's Chuckle
The Atheist
An atheist was walking through the woods.
"What majestic trees!" "What powerful rivers!"
"What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.
He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer. He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the atheist cried out, "Oh my God!"
Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. "You deny my existence for all these years, teach others that I don't exist, and even credit creation to cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light and said, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the bear a Christian?"
"Very well," said the voice.
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke:
"Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen."
Ignore your rights and they'll go away.
—Bumper sticker
Today's English Lesson
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue. Look for some of these lessons to be repeated, because the mistakes are!
This one is about learning the difference between "shone" (the past tense of "shine") and "shown" (as in after you show something, it has been "shown").
This is the actual verbiage I lifted from a publisher's (!) site:
"In the past six months this simple, easy to do (anywhere, anytime) process has shown (sic!) a bright new light on . . . "
I don't think I need to elaborate on this, and at least it gave me new fodder for this feature! :-)
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
—Dale Carnegie
Internet Hints & Tips
Five Ways to Market Using Email
by Jill Hart
There are many ways to market a business. One of the simplest ways is to use an every day business tool—email. By using these five easy tips you'll see how easily your business can grow without much effort on your part.
1. Use a professional signature. This is an important tip to use on every email that you send. Even your friends may not always remember your web site address or business phone number and will quickly look to an old e-mail to look it up.
When preparing an email signature it's important to include your name, company name, and your physical address or website address. You may also include your phone number. Below is a sample email signature:
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
—Robert Orben
Guest Article
Spam Filters: Friends or Foes?
by Anne Marie
Every day I receive in my inbox various email messages from
people trying to sell me products that are supposed to
enlarge a part of my body. You know what I mean.
Nobody stops such messages!
According to the spam filters . . . such messages are not
spam . . .
But when I wanted to offer something for free to some
of my friends a lot of my messages came back
undelivered.
Why?
Because I don't know what smart software decided that
my message was spam! The score of my message was
over I don't want to know which limit and this means
that is spam!
How nice!
I don't know whether or not you are aware of these issues,
but they happen to you, too . . .
Are we at war and some Email/Internet Service Providers
are the chiefs of the army who decide that your correspondence
must be read prior to being delivered to you and allow
you to receive only what they believe it's not dangerous?
What will you say, my dear reader, if tomorrow the postman
tells you:
"Hello, Mr. Reader: You've received four boxes. Here is one of them.
I sent the other three back because we've scanned them and noticed
that they contain freebies from your relatives."
But what about the case when Mr. Postman will give you the
same box, but will not tell you anything about the other
three? This is what the spam filters are doing!
Well . . . not exactly the same. Most of you are even paying for
these services! Did your Email/Internet Service Provider inform
you that you're paying him to censor your correspondence?
Did anybody inform you what it really means to have a
spam filter installed?
Did anybody inform you that many of the ezines you are
subscribed to will never arrive in your Inbox?
Not because they are no longer published but because
your Email Service Provider has installed a spam filter . . .
Did anybody inform you that because of these spam
filters, which even you may like, your ezine ad that you
paid for may never arrive in some of the recipients
Inboxes?
Take care when you choose an Email Service Provider . . .
Take care when you install a spam filter . . .
Take care what words and domain names you use in your
ezine ads and learn how to avoid spam filters so that
your legitimate email messages arrive to the
intended recipient.
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
—Sam Walton
Answer to Bible trivia:
3 — peace
See John 14:27
Inspiration
Pure Silver
Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a
refiner and purifier of silver."
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible
study, and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the
process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study.
That week, the woman called a
silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held
a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest so as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us
in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver."
She asked the silversmith if it was true
that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time.
The man answered that yes, he not only
had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then
she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"
He smiled at her and answered, "Oh,
that's easy—when I see my image in it."
If today you are feeling the heat of the
fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
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