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Name: Allison
Gender: Female
Interests: Dogs - especially Golden Retrievers!
Family. All of 'em I guess;)
Friends...priceless
My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ: Everything that's anything and more!
Expertise: Painting, grooming dogs, making "the best" Subway sandwiches:), laughing and getting mad at Aaron...haha....seriously.
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Yahoo:  zoonarj5_9dornik47
Member Since:
3/19/2004
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| Make it a Great Day!
Make it a great day! What's so great about today?
Whatever you decide to make of it. This can be a day that's quickly forgotten because it was just like all the rest. Or it can be a day that you fondly and gratefully look back upon for years and years to come.
This may seem to be an ordinary day, not that special or different than all the rest. Yet the truly powerful thing about this day is that it's here right now for you to fill with life, with love, with learning, effort, discipline and accomplishment.
There is no other day in your future or past that offers that kind of opportunity. This day is it, your day to live, right here and right now. On this very day, you can take a clear and decisive step straight in the direction of your most treasured dream.
By the time this day is over you can be well on your way toward whatever you desire to achieve. What's so great about today? It's up to you and what you make of it, and just think what a truly priceless blessing that is.
-- Ralph Marston This is the day the Lord has made...I will rejoice and be glad in it! It's You I'll live for...EVERYDAY! @llison | | |
| WHAT A GREAT ANALOGY OF GOD FOR
THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, BY ROBIN
WILLIAMS, NO LESS.
This is one of the best explanations of why
God allows pain and suffering that I have
seen. It's an explanation other people will
understand. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair
cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber
began to work, they began to have a good
conversation. They talked about so many
things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject
of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that
God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked
the customer. "Well, you just have to go out
in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many
sick people? Would there be abandoned
children? If God existed, there would be neither
suffering nor pain. I can't imagine loving a God
who would allow all of these things." The customer thought for a moment, but
didn't respond because he didn't want to
start an argument. The barber finished his
job and the customer left the shop. Just
after he left the barbershop, he saw a man
in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair
and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty
and un-kept. The customer turned back and entered the
barber shop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised
barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I
just worked on you!" "No!" the customer
exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if
they did, there would be no people with dirty
long hair and untrimmed beards, like that
man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is,
people do not come to me." "Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's
the point! God, too, DOES exist! What
happens, is, people don't go to Him and
do not look for Him. That's why there's so
much pain and suffering in the world."
BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!
"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps
if you're not willing to move your feet." Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's troubles.
It empties today of it's strength. @llison | | |
| Change Begins With Choice by Jim Rohn:
Any day we wish, we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.
We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are.
We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, "The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves." We created our circumstances by our past choices.
We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path.
We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives.
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life… If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life… and it all begins with your very own power of choice. @llison | | |
| "Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth.... Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.... Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts he habitually fails to use.
It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon--deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep."
-William James
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| For all of you Coca-Cola drinkers... I wonder if Diet Coke does the same things, just with less sugar? 1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. 2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. 3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coke into the toilet bowl... Let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush clean. 4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. 5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. 6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. 7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. 8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. 9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. FYI: 1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. 2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials. 3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Drink up! I'm sure  does the same...cheers! @llison | | |
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