New Life'n

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How cool -- a MANHOLE COVER right on your front porch.

You know the song. Here's the songwriter.

His mom was godly, his dad ran around all over the world.  Mom died when he was six.  He followed in dad's footsteps -- "a debauched sailor...a miserable outcast." 

Then came the bad storm, March 21, Luke 11:13.  That was the beginning, but, like most of us who remember a special day, change did not come all at once. 

Years later, the song.

He was tough with the truth and humble with people -- "Humble under a sense of much forgiveness to himself, he finds it easy to forgive others."  He said it looks like this:

A company of travellers fall into a pit: one of them gets a passenger to draw him out. Now he should not be angry with the rest for falling in; nor because they are not yet out, as he is. He did not pull himself out: instead, therefore, of reproaching them, he should shew them pity...

"The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness"

When new doesn't mean improved

And it looks like this --

Pat started a new life on Saturday morning at 9:30 when her husband announced that he was filing for divorce . . . "and there isn't anything to discuss."

Janie started a new life when the doctor told her, "I can't give you a date. All I can tell you is that you don't have long to live and that there's going to be some intense suffering ahead for you."

Anabel started a new life that day in the doctor's office when he announced, "Your son is incurably ill and will be hopelessly retarded."

I also know that some of the adjectives attached to this new life are not at all pretty:

Lonely . . . I'm all by myself.

Weary . . . I'm so tired.

Empty . . . There's a void, I have no purpose.

Frustrating . . . I feel so utterly defeated.

Hurting . . . I had no idea how painful this would be.

Six things to remember -- HERE.
 

Just add chocolate milk

More old stuff kids used to eat HERE.

The guy who preached to Tom Cruise

So who said --

I had a great time preaching to Tom Cruise.

and

It would be fascinating to see how many millions of people would be Christians today if [Bono] had taken 10 minutes out of each of his concerts for the past 20 years to give a simple message of salvation. If you cure someone’s Third World debt and they don’t know Jesus, what was the point? So their time here on earth was more comfortable? OK, then what?

Find out HERE.

7 ways to know if God has chosen you

The original, better, shorter version is here. 

1. When you hear the news that Jesus is God’s Son, that he died to pay for your sin and save you from God’s anger, and that he came back to life, you don’t just hear and understand the words, but the words have somewhat the effect of an explosion in you — some things in your life and thinking are blown-up, destroyed, shaken.  You don’t just believe with your mind, you live like it’s true.
2. When there seems to be the unexplainable sense of another person in your life.  When some things happen that can only be explained by saying, that’s God.
3. When there’s a deep sense of assurance or conviction that what you believe is true.
4. When you find yourself imitating the example of people who seem godly, and you sense that in doing so you are actually following Jesus himself.
5. When you suffer and go thru bad times, it doesn’t hit you the way it used to; in fact you have a sense of joy and rejoicing that can’t be taken away by bad times.
6. When just as you have been inspired by godly people, others are also inspired by you!
7. And...when someone starts telling someone else about you, that someone else says something like: Man, I’ve heard about them!  They have really changed!  They used to (fill-in-the-blank), but now all they wanna do is do what God says and be excited about Jesus coming back!

How to live

THIS would be the caption to the picture.

8 products NOT to buy for kids

Not just toys.  When I was a kid I wanted #1 so bad.  And ATV's make sense.  But what's the deal with Yo-yo balls?  There's 4 baby gear items not to buy, too. 

More HERE.

Food poisoning at home -- it's not just the spinach

When I prepare fish or beef in the kitchen to go on the grill, I get a little kooky about scrubbing things down afterward.  And I won't use the same spatula to take things off the grill that I used to put them on raw.  One bad day-long belly ache will do that to you.  How to recognize and prevent it at your house -- When Bad Food Happens.

They did it their way

Fourteen of the richest men in America answer 20 personal questions about success, prayer, breakfast, relaxing, and more.  Two things they have in common seem to be regular exercise and reading several hours a day.  Most didn't think a degree was that big a deal.  Oh, and rich means billionaires -- SECRETS OF THE SELF-MADE.