SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!

Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest:

Each morning your bank would deposit $ 86,400.00 in your private account for your use.However, this prize had rules, just as any game has certain rules.The first set of rules would be:

1 Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.

2 You may not simply transfer money into some other account.

3 You may only spend it.

Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $ 86,400.00 for that day. The second set of rules:

1 The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, "It's over, the game is over!"

2 It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right?Not only for yourself, but for all people you love, right?

Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?You would try to spend every cent, and use it all, right?

ACTUALLY, THIS GAME IS REALITY!!

Each of us is in possession of such a "magical" bank.

We just can't seem to see it. THE MAGICAL BANK IS TIME! Each awakening morning we receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life,and when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.

What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost.Yesterday is forever gone. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time...

WITHOUT WARNING. WELL, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Aren't they worth so much more than the same amount in dollars?

Think about that, and always think of this:Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think. So take care of yourself, and enjoy life!

Here's wishing you a wonderfully beautiful day!!!

Chris Spears

Ocala Florida

Asking for the bicycle ............

Little Carol came into the kitchen where her mother was making dinner. Her birthday was coming up and she thought this was a good time to tell her mother what she wanted. 'Mom, I want a bike for my birthday.'

Now, Little Carol was a bit of a troublemaker. She had gotten into trouble at school and at home. Carol's mother asked her if she thought she deserved to get a bike for her birthday. Little Carol, of course, thought she did.

Carol's mother, being a good Christian woman, wanted her to reflect on her behavior over the last year, and write a letter to God and tell him why she deserved a bike for her birthday. Little Carol stomped up the steps to her room and sat down to write God a letter.

Letter 1 Dear God: I have been a very good girl this year and I would like a bike for my birthday. I want a red one.

Your friend, Carol

Carol knew this wasn't true. She had not been a very good girl this year, so she tore up the letter and started over.

Letter 2 Dear God: This is your friend Carol. I have been a pretty good girl this year, and I would like a red bike for my birthday.
Thank you, Carol

Carol knew this wasn't true either. She tore up the letter and started again.

Letter 3 Dear God: I know I haven't been a good girl this year. I am very sorry. I will be a good girl if you just send me a red bike for my birthday.

Thank you, Carol

Carol knew, even if it was true, this letter was not going to get her a bike.

By now, she was very upset. She went downstairs and told her mother she wanted to go to church. Carol's mother thought her plan had worked because Carol looked very sad. 'Just be home in time for dinner,' her mother said. Carol walked down the street to the church and up to the altar. She looked around to see if anyone was there. She picked up a statue of the Virgin Mary, slipped it under her jacket and ran out of the church, down the street, into her house, and up to her room. She shut the door and sat down and wrote her letter to God.

Letter 4 Dear God: I've got your Mother. If you want to see her again, send the bike.

Signed "Who Know Who"


Have a great day Chris!

The pain of discipline is easier ........

The pain of discipline is easier to deal with than the pain of regret.
Unknown



Make it a great day!

Chris Spears

Ocala Florida

Make it a great Day - Chris Spears!

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -- Robert Brault



Make it a great Day - Chris Spears!

SLOW DANCE ...........

This poem was written
by a terminally ill young girl
in a New York Hospital.

It was sent by
a medical doctor -


SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each dayOn the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time To call and say,'Hi'

You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants .....

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.


'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American....There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' -- Theodore Roosevelt 1907

.......... Got a question? The Bible "Yellow Pages" of course .........

.......... Got a question? The Bible "Yellow Pages" of course .........

"Yellow Pages"


Chris Spears
Ocala Florida

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life ....

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just like that it's May!

Make it a great weekend!

Chris Spears

Ocala Florida

* My 2nd grade Junior Achievement class at St. John School ..........