WEIRD STUFF

There is a lot of interesting stuff, for most people,
at Terra Studios near Durham, Arkansas.


That is where these shots were taken.

Here is proof positive.
When you ignore God
Weird stuff happens.


MODERN LIFE

Do you want to be frustrated?

Get a computer.

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods;

lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things,

but most of the things they make it 

easier to do don't need to be done."

-Andy Rooney

 Do you want an interrupted life?

Get a cell phone.

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"As a teenager you are at the last stage

in your life when you will be happy to hear

that the phone is for you."

-Fran Lebowitz

 Do you want to be brainwashed?

Get a T.V.

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"I find television to be very educating,

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go in the other room and read a book."

-Groucho Marx

 Do you want expensive trouble?

Get a car.

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"We are the first nation in the history of the world

to go to the poorhouse in an automobile."

-Will Rogers

 Do you want to go broke?

Keep up with the neighbors.

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"Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job

with my mother and father.

It was not until many years later when I lived alone

that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag

the Joneses down to my level."

-author unknown

Do you want to be scared half to death?

Read the Newspaper.

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"My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure

is down so low that I can start reading the newspaper."

-Ronald Reagan.  US President 1987

SAVE THE TICK

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Hey!
If you have lived as long as I have -
you know that someone is always coming up with some
goofy cause.
The trend is to down play mankind's God given position
to that of simply part of the animal kingdom.

Have you gotten your "green" cause yet.
Something to save the ecological relationships
of man and beast?
Something to make a name for yourself?

Consider "SAVE THE TICK".

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See that little guy above.
It's on someone's arm (Or body).
If you will leave him (it) alone it can become
as big as the fatty below.

 Photo courtesy of www.sph.unc.edu


All they want is some of your body fluids.
You have plenty if you are in good health.
Share some with a tick.

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Make it a goal to save several type (species) of tick.

Yes.
Ticks can give you tick fever.
But what has that got to do with it?
Ticks were here before you were born.
Don't they have a right to live too?

 Photo courtesy of entomology.unl.edu


Some one smart said the one above is a female.
Sure beats me.
I'll confess.
I have been killing all of them I could get
my hands on.
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.

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Look at this beautiful selection of ticks.

Photo courtesy of www.sph.unc.edu.


I know.
Your question is,
"WHERE CAN I GET MY OWN TICK?"

The easiest way is to get off the couch.
Then take a hike or nature walk in the woods.
Some will hitch a ride home with you.

Lets save the ticks for future posterity.

LIFE A SHOPPING SPREE????

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Shop till you drop.

Seems to be the philosophy our age.

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Don't believe it.

That is a lie encouraged by merchants

to get rich at your expense.

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"Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind 

of greed; because your true life 

is not made up of the things you own,

no matter how rich you may be."

-Luke 12:15 (GNB)

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"But God said to him,

'You fool!

This very night you will have to give up your life;

then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?'"

And Jesus concluded.

"This is how it is with those who pile up riches

for themselves

but are not rich in God's sight."

-Luke 12:20,21 (GNB)

STUFF HAPPENS

YES,

Thank God the driver came out of this alive.

"Troubles are often the tools by which God

fashions us for better things."

-H. W. Beecher

"I have had many troubles in my life,

but the worst of them never came."

-James A. Garfield.

"The wise man thinks about his troubles

only when there is some purpose in doing so;

at other times he thinks about other things.

-Betrand Russell.

"In all troublous events we may find comfort,

though it be only in the negative admission

that things might have been worse."

-Barr

SIMPLIFY

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"And I saw that all labor and all achievement

spring from man's envy of his neighbor.

This too is meaningless,

a chasing after the wind."

-Ecclesiastes 4:4 (NIV)

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I did not say that.

It was Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived.

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If we would work harder,

we could by more "stuff"

to take care of.

GOD'S LOVE

God drew something to my mind today.

See those kids above.  They are some of my great grand children.

These two are from a broken home.  They get shuffled around a lot.

As a result the parents are tooooo busy trying to make new lives for themselves to give these guys the affection they need.

Yet they are great kids.

You know.

"Kids need hugs, not drugs."

That kind of thing.

Above they are "making stuff" at one of grandpa's shops.

After spending a lot of time with them, they have become real special to me.

Often they come around grandpa and it is obvious they just want to be hugged.

To know that they are loved.

Hey! I love it.

And I want their hugs too.

This morning I was setting here wishing one, or both, of them would be hugging grandpa instead of in school.

God drew my attention to the fact that he is the same way.

God longs for our affection.  Our hugs.

"Come near God,

and he will come near to you."

-James 4:8 (GNB)