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Our God is an Awesome God!
Moses and his people, the Israelites, were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them?
They had to be fed, and feeding 2 or 3 million people requires a lot of food.
According to the Quartermaster General in the Army, it is reported that Moses would have to have had 1500 tons of food each day. Do you know that to bring that much food each day, two freight trains, each at least a mile long, would be required!
Besides you must remember, they were out in the desert, so they would have to have firewood to use in cooking the food. This would take 4000 tons of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long, just for one day.
Just think, they were forty years in transit.
And Oh yes! They would have to have water. If they only had enough to drink and wash a few dishes, it would take 11,000,000 gallons each day and a freight train with tank cars, 1800 miles long, just to bring water!
And then another thing! They had to get across the Red Sea at night. Now, if they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and would require 35 days and nights to get through. So there had to be a space in the Red Sea, 3 miles wide so that they could walk 5000 abreast to get over in one night.
But then, there is another problem...each time they camped at the end of the day, a campground two-thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island was required, or a total of 750 square miles... think of it! This much space for camping.
Do you think Moses figured all this out before he left Egypt? I think not! You see, Moses believed in God. God took care of these things for him.
Now do you think God has any problem taking care of your needs?
I asked the Lord to bless you As I prayed for you today.
To guide you and protect you as you go along your way.
His love is always with you, His promises are true,
And when we give Him all our cares, You know He will
see us through.
So when the road you're traveling on seems difficult at
best, just remember to keep praying and God will do the
rest.
Author Unknown
Our God is an Awesome God!
Charles Shultz Philosophy
You don't actually have to write this quiz down. Just read it and mentally note what you can.
Take this quiz:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.
How did you do? The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you.
Easier?
The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz
REMEMBER...
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. 
The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything If your problem is bigger than your GOD, then you are serving the wrong god ... Remember that knees that bend don't shake! If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. When you make a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. If you wake up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance to make a difference! Work is good but not as important as family happiness. The problem with being a leader is that you can't be sure if people are following you or chasing you. If you can't be big, don't belittle. Ideas are like children - our own are the greatest! Tact is the ability to close your mouth before somebody else wants to. Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault, if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Any and all compliments can be handled by simply saying "Thank you." If you feel far away from God, guess who moved? Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there. What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God. I am God's melody of life and He sings His song through me. We can never really go where God is not, and where He is, all is well. No matter what is happening in your life, know that God is waiting for you with open arms. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. Do your best and then sleep in peace. God is awake. God has a purpose and plan for me that no one else can fulfill. The will of God can never lead you where the grace of God can not keep you. We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome. We set the sail; God makes the wind. Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. Sometimes when God says "no", it's because He has something better in store for you. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. Prayer: Don't bother to give God instructions, just report for duty. It's my business to do God's business and it's His business to take care of my business. Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. How come you're always running around looking for God? He's not lost. God put me on earth to accomplish a number of things; right now I'm so far behind I will live forever. No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards. Don't stay on the bumps too long. Move on! When you feel down because you didn't get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because God has thought of something better to give you. When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means. There's a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard. You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth. It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give. Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his place. Friendship is like wine, it gets better as it grows older. Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less. A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape ... but a woman of strength keeps her soul in shape.
A strong woman isn't afraid of anything... but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear.
A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her... but a woman of strength gives the best of herself to everyone.
A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same in the future... A woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be blessings and
capitalizes on them.
A strong woman walks sure footedly... But a woman of strength knows that when she falls, she will get up again.
A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face... but a woman of strength wears grace.
A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey... But a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will
become strong.
She was the funniest mother in America and, quite possibly, the most insightful. For over 30 years Erma Bombeck made us laugh; she also made us think. The following are some of her quotes:
"There are 2 kinds of women who will spring big bucks for a make-up mirror that magnifies their faces. The first are young models who need to cover every eyelash, shadow their cheekbones, define their lips, and sculpt their faces. The second group are women who, without their glasses, cannot find their faces." "I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie." "I never ironed my husband’s pajamas. And if I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children’s eyes, they’d flinch and call their attorney." "Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase." "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart." "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you." "Every day of his or her life a child is plotting an event that will age you 20 years in 20 seconds." "Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows." "I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go into overload and blow up." "I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week." "Most children's first words are Mamma or Daddy... My kid's first words were, "Do I have to use my own money?'' I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely. It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him. My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw. Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity. There's a territorial ritual to an aerobics class. I entered a class for the first time a few years ago and ended up where no one wanted to be... in the front row next to the mirror. It was three years before I could work my way to the back row. How come anything you buy will go on sale next week? Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. I have never gone to the bathroom in my life that a small voice on the other side of the door hasn't whined, "Are you saving the bananas for anything?" Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-rearing, they are unemployed. Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer SAYS you're out of it. Why is it when you want a nice souvenir, you find a great shell in a gift shop, but some yo-yo has affixed a ten-cent thermometer to it? Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed. Who, in their infinite wisdom, decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidation's on the eve of a major holiday. On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies and the sand out of our belongings. Mother's words of wisdom: "Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!" All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them. Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. I remember buying a set of black plastic dishes once, after I saw an ad on television where they actually put a blowtorch to them and they emerged unscathed. Exactly one week after I bought them, one of the kids brought a dinner plate to me with a large crack in it. When I asked what happened to it, he said it hit a tree. I don't want to talk about it. My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you? Before you try to keep up with the Jones's, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?" I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?" Mothers have to remember what food each child likes or dislikes, which one is allergic to penicillin and hamster fur, who gets carsick and who isn't kidding when he stands outside the bathroom door and tells you what's going to happen if he doesn't get in right away. It's tough. If they all have the same hair color they tend to run together. When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there's a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States. Christmas Shopping: Wouldn't it be wonderful to find one gift that you didn't have to dust, that had to be used right away, that was practical, fit everyone, was personal and would be remembered for a long time? I penciled in "Gift certificate for a flu shot." I Pray That God Gives You...
Enough Happiness to keep you sweet Enough Trials to keep you strong Enough Sorrows to keep you human Enough Hope to keep you happy Enough Failure to keep you humble Enough success to keep you eager Enough Friends to give you comfort Enough Wealth to meet your needs Enough Enthusiasm to look forward Enough Faith to banish depression Enough Determination to make each day a better day than yesterday.Please Read "I Wish You Enough" at Inspie's Nook - Stories
"It may be true that you know the Word of God, but do you really know the God of the Word?" "Our peace is destroyed by focusing on what is wrong around us, rather than HE who is right within us." "Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give but an occasional pluck at the rope; but he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might." - Charles Spurgeon "Morality will keep you out of jail, but only the blood of Jesus will keep you out of hell." - Charles Spurgeon "Sometimes when we ask God our "Why?" questions, instead of giving us answers He gives us Himself." - Mary Jane Worden "We have been created to love and to be loved." - Mother Teresa "If you can see, what others can't find; then either you are mad, or they are blind." - Louis Lord
"True friendship is a knot which Angel hands have tied." - Unknown "Respect yourself most of all." - Pythagoras "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - Jesus "The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Emerson "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson "Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." - Mortimer Adler "Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor." - Samuel Coleridge "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." - Montaigne "Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing." - Eric Hoffer "Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely." - Rudolph Rummel "The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone." - Henrik Ibsen
