Let Faith Blossom

I knew a couple who spent days working hard to pay the rent on their small apartment and buy food, while pursuing new opportunities to better themselves. Despite their circumstances, to dream and expand their vision, they dressed up and went to a posh hotel, where they simply sat in the elegant hotel lobby. They looked beyond where they were to where they wanted to be and let faith blossom in their hearts.

Perhaps you, too, need to change your environment . Quit sitting around worrying and feeling sorry for yourself. Instead go find somewhere you can dream. Find someplace your faith will be elevated.

Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear. – Psalm 10:17

Thoughts To Ponder

Thoughts to ponder. Funny stuff I found online...

When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

What do they call a coffee break at the Lipton Tea Company?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?

Why is the word abbreviation so long?

And whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

Is there another word for synonym?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

How is it possible to have a civil war?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

what happened to the people who were tested w preparation A - G?

So what's the speed of dark?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

How come when you buy a jar of preservatives, on the label it says, "No Preservatives?"

Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic?"

How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

Why does lemon juice contain mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?

Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container?

How do you know when its time to tune your bagpipes?

Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?

Never agree to plastic surgery if the doctor's office is full of portraits by Picasso.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for?

STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS.

As I said before, I never repeat myself!

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

How come your nose runs and your feet smell.

Why is it that a slim chance and a fat chance can mean the same thing, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?

Why is there always one in every crowd?

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?

Why does Bugs bunny walk around the cartoon naked, but puts a bathing suit on when he goes swimming?

When pigs fart, does it smell like bacon?

If money does not grow on trees, why do banks have branches?

If you cut off a glowworm's tail would it be delighted?

If you were under house arrest and you lived in a mobile home, wouldn’t you be able to go anywhere you want?

If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?

Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?

When you see the weather report and it says "partly cloudy" and then the next day it says "partly sunny"; what’s the difference?

How do you know which armrest is yours in the movie theaters?

If you say something is indescribable, isn't that describing it?

Do Dutch people always split the bill?

If you died with braces on would they take them off?

Why do you go “back and forth” to town if you really must go forth before you go back?

Why is it when some products you have to turn it upside down to read the directions, and the directions say do not turn upside down?

Why do all superheroes wear spandex?

Why do bankruptcy lawyers expect to be paid?

What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.

Wouldn't you think big cities would have an emergency phone number 119 just in case someone with dyslexia has an emergency?

Journey

For the Christian, what looks like a detour may actually be a new road to blessing.

The journeys that we take in life,
Though unexpected they may be,
If we commit to follow Christ,
His work through us the world will see. —Sper

I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel. —Philippians 1:12

Over A Bowl Of Coffee?

Let me just share this story over a bowl of coffee and laugh about it all over again. About 8 years or so ago, my husband and I had this habit of having either double espresso or 16 oz of cappuccino throughout the day. One afternoon we were at this fancy Cafe and ordered our 16 oz of cappuccinos. After a few minutes the waiter brings us our coffee. Our cappuccinos were served in 2 oriental bowls. Our faces had this "what the...??? are you kidding me?" look. The waiter tells us that it's how they serve cappuccino in Italy. Really? In a China bowl? C'mon!!! So we asked them if they can put it in their regular 16 oz cappuccino cups that we used to have and they said they didn't have those cups anymore.

So we were sitting there staring at our Chinese bowls and actually giggling about the whole silliness. We didn't actually buy the idea. We were even looking around thinking that we might be in some Candid Camera show. We tried to sip once but it felt really ridiculous. We thought that the waiters might be laughing at us every time we take a sip because they're just pulling a prank on us. So we called our waiter again and asked if he could place them in regular mugs because we're NOT drinking our cappuccinos from a Chinese bowl.

Our waiter did take our bowls to replace them. And now for the hilarity part 2, he comes back with 4 regular mugs since they didn't have the 16 oz mugs anymore. Now we had 2 mugs each in front of us. It was so weird but hilarious. 2 people having coffee with 2 mugs each. Hilarity part 3 we had to gulp down one of our mugs to get rid of them and have just one mug each in front of us to enjoy and at least appear normal.

Here's the thing. I recently read an article in Elle Decor how this so called coffee European style (serving coffee in a bowl) was popularized in Amsterdam about a decade ago. A method you wouldn't really see on the other side of the Atlantic. The editor said that now he's hooked and even bought a few bowls, as in the picture to serve to his guests when having coffee at his house.

Ahhh, see now I'm educated. I can now confidently sip my hot cup of coffee with confidence when served in a bowl. But using the Chinese bowl? Ummm, nothing bout that says European. We still go to have coffee at that fancy Cafe to this day but I don't see those Chinese bowls anymore. Well I guess their attempt to do coffee European style didn't really work out. I'd say give it another decade or so.