(~ HAPPY THANKSGIVING ~)

  Hope you have a nice Thanksgiving! 

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"A JEWISH MOTHER"

If ONLY THEY HAD A JEWISH MOTHER

  

  

MONA LISA'S JEWISH MOTHER: 

"After all the money your father and I spent on braces, this you call a smile?"

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' JEWISH MOTHER:

"I don't care what you've discovered, 

you didn't call, you didn't write."

MICHELANGELO'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"A ceiling you paint?  

Not good enough for you the walls, 

like the other children?

Do you know how hard it is to get that schmutz off the ceiling?"

NAPOLEON'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"You're not hiding your report card? Show me!

Take your hand out of your jacket and show me!"

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"Again with that hat!  Why can't you wear a baseball cap like the other kids?"

   

   

THOMAS EDISON'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"Okay, so I'm proud that you invented the electric light bulb.  

Now turn it off already and go to sleep!"

PAUL REVERE'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"I don't care where you think you have to go, 

young man, midnight is long past your bedtime!"

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"Your senior photograph and you couldn't have done something with your hair?"

MOSES' JEWISH MOTHER:

"Desert, schmesert!  Where have you really been for the last forty years?"

BILL GATES' JEWISH MOTHER:

"It would have killed you to become a doctor?"

   

   

BILL CLINTON'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"Well, at least she was a nice Jewish girl, that Monica.

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(~The Clothesline~)

Ask Your Mom About Clotheslines 

If You Don't Remember Them. 

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Remembering Mom's Clothesline

There is one thing that's left out. We had a long wooden pole (clothes pole) that was used to push 
The clotheslines up so that longer items (sheets/pants/etc.) didn't brush the ground and get dirty.

I can hear my mother now.....

THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES:

(If you don't even know what clotheslines are, better skip this.)
1. You had to hang the socks by the toes... NOT the top.
2. You hung pants by the BOTTOM/cuffs... NOT the waistbands.
3. You had to WASH the clothesline(s) before hanging any clothes - walk the entire length of each line with a damp cloth around the lines.
4. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites," and hang them first.
5. You NEVER hung a shirt by the shoulders - always by the tail! What would the neighbors think?
6. Wash day on a Monday! NEVER hang clothes on the weekend, or on Sunday, for Heaven's sake!
7. Hang the sheets and towels on the OUTSIDE lines so you could hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know!)
8. It didn't matter if it was sub-zero weather... Clothes would "freeze-dry."
9. ALWAYS gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! Pins left on the lines were "tacky"!
10. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
11. Clothes off the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket, and ready to be ironed.
12. IRONED? Well, that's a whole OTHER subject!
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And now a POEM

A clothesline was a news forecast, to neighbors passing by, there were no secrets you could keep, when clothes were hung to dry. 

It also was a friendly link, for neighbors always knew if company had stopped on by, to spend a night or two.

For then you'd see the "fancy sheets", And towels upon the line; 
You'd see the "company table cloths", With intricate designs. The line announced a baby's birth, From folks who lived inside, As brand new infant clothes were hung, So carefully with pride! The ages of the children could, So readily be known By watching how the sizes changed, You'd know how much they'd grown!
It also told when illness struck, As extra sheets were hung; 
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe too, Haphazardly were strung. It also said, "On vacation now", When lines hung limp and bare. It told, "We're back!" when full lines sagged, With not an inch to spare! New folks in town were scorned upon, If wash was dingy and gray, As neighbors carefully raised their brows, And looked the other way. But clotheslines now are of the past, For dryers make work much less. Now what goes on inside a home, Is anybody's guess! I really miss that way of life, It was a friendly sign 
When neighbors knew each other best... By what hung out on that line.

   

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' YES '

Here's another trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills ... 

    

Can you meet this challenge? 

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I've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time I've seen it with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

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H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
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W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
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To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the above paragraph, forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!
If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it. 

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FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT. Forward it & put 'YES' in the Subject Line.

A Miraculous Survival Story

IMB Missionaries Share Their 

Story Of A Miraculous Survival

11/13/2013

By Caroline Anderson

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TACLOBAN, Philippines—Suzie Miller sat on her mattress, floating on the second level of her flooding home, not knowing whether she and her husband would survive.
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But Suzie and her husband, Carl – who serve among the 26 IMB missionaries assigned to the Philippines – knew they were exactly where God wanted them: in their home in Tacloban during Typhoon Haiyan.
Miller said the entire experience was a testament to God’s provision and the power of prayer.
As the typhoon engulfed the peninsula of Tacloban on Friday, Nov. 8, Miller said the wind outside sounded like a semitrailer was passing. Their house also shook as if a semitrailer was grazing the sides of their house – traveling at 235 miles per hour.
The glass windows in the Millers’ home shattered, and water began pouring into their home. The first thing Miller grabbed was a prayer journal she has had since college.
Upstairs, the Millers climbed with their two dogs onto a mattress floating in the water in their bedroom.
DR PEPPER TO THE RESCUE:
The Millers had just returned to Tacloban from Cebu City, where they had the option to remain until the typhoon passed. But they believed God wanted them to go home to Tacloban.  
For Suzie’s birthday on Nov. 3, her son and daughter-in-law bought Dr Peppers – a rare treat in the Philippines, and a favorite of the Millers. IMB missionaries Stan and Dottie Smith also had given the Millers Dr Peppers as a birthday present.
Suzie said she and Carl felt like they were dying of thirst, stranded on their mattress with no water, as the wind and rain torpedoed their home. Prior to the storm, Suzie placed the three Dr Peppers from her son on a desk. As the water rose in their room, the Dr Peppers floated over to the mattress.
“We just opened a Dr Pepper and shared it,” she said. “There is nothing that helps you out like drinking Dr Pepper in a storm. We love Dr Pepper.”
THE POWER OF PRAYER:
Miller said God brought a Scripture verse to her mind during the experience: “Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck” (Psalm 69:1, ESV).
“I never thought about literally praying that prayer,” Miller said.
The Millers live in a split-level home, and the water level in their house rose to more than 7 feet deep. They watched as their furniture bobbed up and down.
“[We were] praying for God’s mercy, but also realizing, if we didn’t make it, we chose to leave Cebu and come back,” Miller said. “We felt very confident in that decision. We trusted Him to take care of us, whatever His will was.”
This confidence didn’t keep her from feeling afraid at times, Miller said. Surge after surge of water pummeled their home.
 “When the water was coming up, we had no idea if we were going to survive or not,” she said.
Susie suggested to Carl that they crawl out the window to escape their flooding house.
“Honey, we can’t get out – if we get out, we will die,” Carl said.
The torrential wind, rain and waves from the ocean made an exit from their home a deadly hazard. The winds were so strong, they broke gauges used to measure their speed. As the Millers weathered the storm in their home, a close friend clung to the rafters of what remained of his house, hanging on for dear life as wave after wave pummeled him. He miraculously survived.
“I hate to be closed in – that whole panic of being closed in and trapped and drowning,” Miller said. “My husband, he was such a dear, he said, ‘You know, we just pray and we ask God to save us and that is all we can do.’”
Miller said they started praying out loud.
“I’ve heard of folks crying out to God, and that is what we did – [we were] crying out to God.”
After the Millers cried out to God, the water began to recede, but another wave soon poured in. The couple continued praying, and the water receded and did not rise again.
“We saw all of our furniture floating around … and then it all settled down,” Miller said. “God saved us.”  
THANKSGIVING TURKEY:
After the rain and water subsided, the Millers crawled out of a window, but they quickly retreated back inside because the wind was still so powerful that it hurt when it hit their skin.
A car was washed up against their back door. The Millers’ car was wedged in their fence.
Their couch was on top of their piano. Their china cabinet fell, one end propped against their stationary bike. Miller said their only dishes that broke were cheaper items purchased recently; the 33-year-old dishes from their wedding survived unscathed.
Despite the tragedy, God brought the Millers moments of humor. Carl lost his glasses in the storm and had to wear Suzie’s pink pair. Most of Carl’s shoes washed away – all he could find was one boot, so he borrowed a purple sandal of Suzie’s to wear outside.
Of 200 books the Millers own, a copy of David Jeremiah’s “What in the World is Going On” was plastered on the wall. Their dining room table floated up, remained level and then floated back down as the water eventually receded. Amazingly, all of the items on the table did not fall off into the water.
The Miller’s freezer also floated through their home. Remarkably, the freezer remained sealed, preserving a turkey they had purchased for the upcoming holidays.
Instead of keeping the turkey for themselves, the Millers gave the poultry to their neighbors, who were struggling to feed their family. The neighbors prepared the turkey and insisted the Millers come and join them for “turkey adobo.” (Adobo is a popular seasoning used in the Philippines.) A Christmas warehouse released its storage of queso, macaroni and canned fruit cocktail, and the Millers and their neighbors ate those foods as side dishes.
“This is our Thanksgiving turkey, we are giving thanks that we all survived,” Miller told her neighbors. “It really was thanksgiving for survival.” 
The Millers reported the neighbors in their immediate vicinity all survived. Through the experience, Miller said she learned the true meaning of community.
Five Bible school students in need of shelter stayed with the Millers during the weekend, helped muck the mud out of their home, and moved and cleaned their furniture.
Miller’s neighbors shared their washing boards and soap with her, since her cleaning supplies were lost. Washing clothes together quickly led to a time of community, with everyone sharing their stories of survival.
The community shared tools, gasoline, food and other supplies with one another. Everyone shared everything they had, Miller said.
The Millers’ church is located on the opposite side of town, and they didn’t know whether it survived. On Sunday, four church members walked almost five miles through debris and dead bodies to see if the Millers and other church members were alive and well.
“It was a great time to see Filipinos care for each other,” Miller said. “It is kind of like Acts: everyone had everything in common, and no one had anything that was their own.”
NO RESERVATIONS:
Miller said she never doubted the decision to return to Tacloban.
“It wasn’t ‘Oh why, oh why did we come back?’” she said. “It was just a peace.”
Miller said it was important to go through the tragedy with her neighbors, rather than leaving and letting the neighbors go through the tragedy alone. If they did that, Miller said, “You come back as an outsider to minister.”
Instead, the Millers experienced the life-changing disaster with the people they love and serve. Without cell phone access or electricity, they heard they could make phone calls at the airport. On Monday, they set off on foot, walking for several miles.
They found their beloved city decimated.
The Millers walked past leveled homes and corpses. The house next to theirs was gone. Tin, boards, nails and wires littered the streets. They passed a home that had caved in; the corpses of the family remained inside, crushed.
Entire communities were wiped out.
Cars were upside down. A mini-semitrailer rested on top of a tree. Around the beach areas, only coconut trees remained. Gnarled steel girders protruded from spaces where buildings once stood. People tried to bathe in standing water on the road.
“It was just destruction, everywhere you looked,” Miller said.
PEACE IN DESTRUCTION:
The Millers knew they were being blanketed in prayer. Prior to the storm, they sent an email to their network of churches in South Carolina and Texas asking for prayer. They also had requested prayer from their extended family.
Email in-boxes and Facebook and Twitter feeds buzzed with prayers and well-wishes for the Millers.
“We could really tell that people were praying,” Miller said. “There was such an uncanny peace in the midst of everything happening. I think it is the grace that God gives when you are in a crisis situation.”
“He walks through it with you,” Miller said. “We just knew God was in control.”
The Millers boarded a military aircraft on Tuesday for Manila, where they are recuperating and making plans for relief work. Staying in Tacloban became dangerous after the storm passed, as looting and violence over the lack of food is increasing. The delivery of aid supplies to the island has been slow. There is a lack of water, food and phone service.
But the Millers hope to return and help their community rebuild.
The Millers pray that they “would do things to give God all the glory, and that He would be the focus of this, and not us.”
Pray:
-Pray for the Waray Waray people, who the Millers serve
-Pray the Lord would guide the Millers’ next steps and give direction on where He wants them to go
-Pray for the Millers’ family in the U.S.
Go:
Churches and individuals interested in going as volunteers to help with the disaster response should contact the Disaster Relief director of their state Baptist convention. International disaster response requires teams to be certified in certain skills, and the mobilization of volunteer teams to overseas disasters is coordinated with state conventions.
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Caroline Anderson writes for IMB from Southeast Asia.
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(: Two Angels :)

   Two Traveling Angels 

  

  

(this one will make you think twice!)
 Keep reading to the bottom of the page. 

Don't stop at the feet (You'll see).
   
 Two traveling angels stopped 

to spend the night in the 

home of a wealthy family.
   
 The family was rude and 

refused to let the angels stay 

in the mansion's guest room.
   
 Instead the angels were given 

a small space in the cold basement.
   
 As they made their bed on the 

hard floor, the older angel saw 

a hole in the wall and repaired it.
   
 When the younger angel asked 

why, the older angel replied,
   
 "Things aren't always what they seem"
   
 The next night the pair came to 

rest at the house of a very poor, but
 very hospitable farmer and his wife.
   
 After sharing what little food they 

had the couple let the angels 
   sleep in their bed where they 

could have a good night's rest.
    
   When the sun came up the 

next morning the angels found 

the farmer and his wife in tears.
 Their only cow, whose milk 

had been their sole income, 

lay dead in the field.

    
 The younger angel was infuriated 

and asked the older angel how could
   you have let this happen?
   The first man had everything, 

yet you helped him, she accused.
   

 The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die..
   

"Things aren't always what they seem," 

the older angel replied.
 "When we stayed in the 

basement of the mansion, 

I noticed there was gold 

stored in that hole in the wall.
   
   Since the owner was so 

obsessed with greed and unwilling 

to share his good fortune, 

I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it."
   
 "Then last night as we slept 

in the farmers bed, the angel 

of death came for his wife 

I gave him the cow instead.
   
 Things aren't always what they seem."
 Sometimes that is exactly what 

happens when things don't 

turn out the way they should. 

   

If you have faith, you just need 

to trust that every out come is 

always to your advantage. 

You just might not know it 

 until some time later.

   
                                  Oooo 
   Some people           (    ) 
   come into our lives   )  / 
   and quickly go..      (_ / 
   
           oooO                      
             (    )  Some people 
              \  ( become friends 
               \_ ) and stay awhile 
   

 leaving beautiful         Oooo 

 footprints on our        (    ) 
     hearts...                  )  / 
                                  ( _/ 
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                  oooO                      
                   (    )      and we are
                    \  (       never quite
                     \_ )        the same 
                      because we have 
                            made a good 
                                 friend! 

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