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 From the banks of Burcham Creek

Saturday Edition…

 

Where is your “happy place”?

 

Have you thought about that?

 

Is it knee deep wetting a hook in

the TN River?

Or swinging a golf club at your

Favorite course?

Is it deep in the woods waiting

For a deer to appear?

Is it spending time with your

grandchildren as they grow up.

 

Is it where you worship God

With your brothers and sisters

In Christ?

 

Yes, where is YOUR “happy place?”

 

- Hayden Childs, Editor

 

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What Really Counts!

Don’t tell me what you’ll do,

When you have time to spare.

Tell me what you did today

To ease a load of care.

 

Don’t tell me what you will give

When your ship comes in from sea;

Tell me what you gave today…

A fettered soul to free.

 

Don’t tell me the dreams you have

Of conquest still afar,

Don’t say what you hope to be,

But show me what you are.

- Anonymous

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Pray Don’t Find Fault…

“Pray don’t find fault with the man who limps
Or stumbles along the road,
Unless you have worn the shoes he wears,
Or struggled beneath his load.

There may be tacks in his shoes that hurt,
Though hidden away from view,
The burden he bears, placed on your back,
Might cause you to stumble too.

Don’t sneer at the man who’s down today ,
Unless you have felt the blow,
That caused his fall or felt the shame,
That only the fallen know.

You may be strong, but still the blows,
That were his if dealt to you,
In the selfsame way, at the selfsame time,
Might cause you to stagger too.

Don’t be too harsh with the man who sins,
Or pelt him with word or stone,
Unless you are sure, yea, doubly sure,
That you have no sins of your own,

For you know perhaps if the tempter’s voice,
Should whisper as softly to you,
As it did to him when he went astray,
It might cause you to stumble too”

Rama Muthukrishnan

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The growth and development

of people is the highest calling

of leadership.

- Harvey Samuel Firestone

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No, there is no failure for the man

who realizes his power,

Who never knows when he is beaten;

there is no failure

For the determined endeavor

the unconquerable will.

There is no failure for the man

who gets up every time

He falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball,

who persists

When everyone else gives up,

who pushes on when everyone

Else turns back.

Orison Swett Marden

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One can know a man from his laugh,

And if you like a man’s laugh

Before you know anything of him,

You may confidently say that

He is a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Laugh often, long and loud. 

Laugh until you gasp for breath.

And if you have a friend who 

makes you laugh, 

spend lots of time

with them.

- Anonymous

Editor Note…

Some of the last words my grandmother

Ozell Childs said about me was the following…

“I love to hear that laugh.”

 

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"You will never "find" time for anything.

If you want time, you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

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The man that hath no music in himself,

Nor is not moved with concord

Of sweet sounds,

Is fit for treasons, stratagems,

And spoils.

The motions of his spirit are dull as night,

And his affections dark as Erebus.

Let no such man be trusted.

- William Shakespeare

 

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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Alan Jackson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5x0MclH3l0