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ATTN In the 1980's there was a strong push to build the self-esteem of our children. This movement found many children mindlessly singing with their teachers, I am special, I am special, look at me, look at me! (“Frere Jacques”) However, this movement has had some negative consequences. Recent comprehensive…

ATTN What does it mean to be “happy?” Many have tried to define it. For instance: Gandhi said: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Ayn Rand said: Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Robert Ingersoll,…

ATTENTION I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time." So spoke one of today’s popular entertainers. She has had a number of more controversial quotes, however. She also said: "I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're…

Some of you have felt it. It’s frustrating; it’s bewildering; it’s a transparent moment when the truth dawns and the answer is not at all what you had expected. It happened to me behind a lawn mower. O it had happened before and it has certainly happened since. This time just sticks out in my mind. Since…

ATTN: He was called “Praying Hyde.” A missionary to India at the turn of the century, many people thought John Hyde was always intensely serious because of his reputation for being able to pray and see incredible answers to prayer. They thought that such a prayer-warrior could have no capacity for celebration.…

ATTENTION One modern philosopher admitted, “I want atheism to be true … It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and, naturally, hope that I'm right about my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that."” Now I know you immediately…

ATTN One man said of his neighbor who was a notorious grouch: “The spreads good cheer wherever he DOESN’T go.” May Tuohy, a seventy-year-old known for her general grouchiness, called the police about her neighbor who was sunbathing in the nude. “I don’t see anything,” said the police officer, looking…

ATTN A preacher and a soap maker went for a walk together. The soap maker said, “What good is religion? Look at all the trouble and misery of the world! Still there, even after years—thousands of years—of teaching about goodness and truth and peace. Still there, after all the prayers and sermons and…

ATTN If you had been reading the July 22, 1776 edition of the Boston Gazette, you would have come across a notice that read: Deserted from my company, in Col. Craft’s battalion of colony train of artillery, Michael Carrick, 31 years of age, about 5 foot 8 inches high, with a cut over his right eye brow,…

ATTN I’D RATHER DIE WHILE I’M LIVING THAN LIVE WHILE I’M DEAD I WANT TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER EVERY NOW AND THEN.. THE WEATHER IS HERE, WISH YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL. All of these truisms were the creation of that “dock-of-the-bay” philosopher, Jimmy Buffet. While I surely there are better sources of truth,…

Crash and Burn ATT It was a normal January day. I had been working at the church in Elizabethton, TN. and lunch time came, so I headed down the street to my home for lunch. When I walked through the door, I could tell something was terribly wrong. There sat Marie, our baby sitter on the couch with a…