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Enjoy poetry? Check out my poems on Starlite Cafe
I've posted nearly 90 poems in several different genres under my pen name CheeseMaker.

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Little Hands
 

Mary held her child so close,
Love only a mother knows;
Her finger gripped by a tiny hand,
She smiled in sweet repose.
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"If you want to walk fast, walk alone; if you want to walk far, walk together."

"You never know which way that bronc will buck until you get in the saddle."

"When you attract people with a hot dog, someone else will take them away with a hamburger."
          —Pastor Marla Moore

"I like getting in hot water.  It keeps you clean!"
                                                                              —C. K. Chesterfield

"It has been said that Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble."                  —William Barclay, New Daily Study Bible, Gospel of Luke

"The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer to do."                                                                  —Attributed to various sources, most commonly Paul Leob

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them."

                                                                                -Francois de la Rochefoucauld


"The worried cow would have lived 'til now,
If she had saved her breath;
But she feared her hay wouldn't last all day,
So she mooed herself to death!"

"He who slings mud looses ground"

"If you are on a small island and throw enough dirt, you may end up swimming"

 "If you chase two rabbits, you will lose both"

"The only thing worst than being talked about is not being talked about"

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory" --Rita Mae Brown, (1944- )

"If you don't want to fall into the muddy pond, don't play on its slippery banks."

"Work when you work, play when you play,
One thing at a time, that is the way,
All that you do, do with your might,
Things done by half are never done right."

        —McGuffey Reader

Here are some old ones:
"As a rule man's a fool,
When it's hot he wants it cool,
When it's cool  he wants it hot,
He always wants something he hasn't got!"


"A man convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still."


"Confession is good for the soul, but hard on the reputation!"

 

This old tailors adage is good advise:
"Measure three times and only cut once!"

When faced with huge challenges, think on these sage words:
"How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at time!"
"The highest mountain must be climbed one step at a time."
"The mighty oak is just a little nut that held his ground."
"God can pull you through if you can stand the pull."

We can't live in the past:
"No church has a future unless its dreams are bigger than its memories."

These one may be old, but  something to think about:
"To marry in haste is to repent at leisure."


"Puppy love can lead to a dog's life."


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Some seed thoughts for an idea of a possible sermon or series of sermons:

Are We Keeping "Sacred Things" Sacred?

This morning I read the account of Jesus cleansing the temple at Jerusalem.  It is quite a moving account of an act of great courage by our Savior.  When I thought about how the people of that time had lost the sense that the Temple, especially the outer court, was "holy," I couldn't help but wonder how today we may have lost the meaning of sacred things.  Do we realize how many things God intends for us to "set apart" or "sanctify?" I think the word "holy" or "sanctity" speak of something being dedicated to or for exclusive use.  Here are a few concepts that readily come to my mind.

Alternate title, maybe as a series:

"Making the Ordinary Special"

The sanctity of worship (John 4 "in spirit and in truth")

The sanctity of the place of worship (could contrast the "transcendence of God with the immanence of God as it relates to worship)

The sanctity of marriage (Gen 2 "leaving, cleaving, one flesh;" this really needs to be taught in light of the loose morals of our time)

The sanctity of our families (1 Cor. 7 "else were your children unclean")

The sanctity of our promises (Do we realize that a promise is "set apart" from ordinary speech?  What about promises we make to ourselves?  Do we keep our word to ourselves?)

The sanctity of a sacred day

The sanctity of our tithe

The sanctity of our lives to God's purpose

What does it mean to "set apart" or to be "holy to the Lord?"  What are these things "set apart" from?  How are they different from the ordinary?  Why are they "set apart?"  What is the blessing that comes to that is upon that which is "sanctified?"  What blessing does it bring to that which is not part of the things sanctified?


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