Something Light - Dancing Matt

Quote - Teaching Children

"How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?"

G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World?

Something Light - Obituary

It is with heavy heart that I must pass on the following news. Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.

The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, Betty Crocker, and the Hostess Twinkies.

The gravesite was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

Quote - The Gift of Grace

"In the same way that the men's eyes - not by their own choice - had been restrained [because they had known Jesus before], now their eyes were opened - not by their own power. Someone had provided them with the capacity to see. The ability to recognize Jesus for who He is, to believe that He paid the ultimate price for our sins, and to receive His amazing grace is a free gift. It is not something you and I are capable to see on our own. We cannot earn it...our desire to see doesn't get it done. Only our willingness to receive God's gift of faith opens our eyes and hearts to receive the gift of His grace."

Robert Wolgemuth, on Luke 24:16-31, from 7 Things You Better Have Nailed Down

Something Light - Nun Driver

A police officer had just pulled over a car full of nuns for going too slow on a major highway. The conversation went like this:

Officer: "Why were you driving so slowly?"

Nun driver: "I kept seeing all these signs with the number 20 on them and figured that was the speed limit."

Officer: "No, Sister, that is the highway number."

Nun driver: "Oh, I'm so sorry, Officer. I didn't know that."

Then the officer looks into the backseat and sees that the nuns there have panic-stricken faces and white knuckles from holding onto each other too tightly.

Officer: "What's wrong with the nuns in the backseat?"

Nun driver: "Oh, we just got off Highway 101 a few miles ago."

Quote - Sovereign Deliveries

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life-the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the time."

C.S. Lewis, The Quotable Lewis

HT: Girl Talk (for the title idea and the quote)

Something Light - Phone Number Rhythm

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Quote - Crawling Along the Road of Life

"I desire to depart and be with Christ--which is better by far!" Philippians 1:23What horrors may beset the carnally-minded, when they think of their death! Yet no prospect affords me such pleasure as that of my death and final change! I have exceeding great cause to rejoice, when I compare what I now am and suffer--with what I shall then enjoy and be!

Now my joys are future, and in expectation--for I walk by faith, and live on hope. But then they shall be present, and in possession--for I shall dwell in light, and feed on fruition!

Now I am daily struggling with death and sin--but then I shall eternally triumph over both!

Now I toil along a tiresome road--but then I shall walk above these skies in the very heavens!

Now my eyes rove from vanity to vanity--but then they shall see, yes, fix upon the King of kings in His divinest glory!

Now I dwell among fire-brands, and surrounding sinners daily give me pain--but then I shall dwell among the multitudes of the redeemed, with angels and archangels--and not one sinner among all the heavenly multitudes!

Now I often bewail myself as a frail inhabitant of feeble clay--but then I shall find myself possessed of all the vigor of immortality--of all the briskness of eternal life!

Now I have foes without, and foes within; the sin of my nature, and the idols of my heart; enemies from earth and hell to grapple with--but then, triumphing over every foe, I shall sing the victories of the divine Conqueror, and never cease from this matchless, this inexhaustible theme!

Now the cruel hand of death comes among my friends and family, and leaves me like a sparrow on the house-top alone, or mourning in the wilderness--but then not one of all the numerous inhabitants shall so much as say, "I am sick," because they are an assembly of sinless ones.

Now my Sun often conceals Himself, so that I go mourning without Him--but then in the light of His countenance, in the brightness of His glory, shall I walk on forever!

Now I am crawling along the road of life in company with fellow-worms, who dwell in cottages of clay, and are crushed before the moth--but then, dignified with His divine likeness, I shall dwell with the Ancient of days, and enjoy the dearest and most intimate communion with Jehovah and the Lamb forever!

Now my time is wasting away, and I may be very near my latter end--but then an endless eternity shall be mine, and my bliss shall be as durable as it is desirable; and as permanent as it is pleasant.

O! then, who would not desire death--which is so pregnant with glory and bliss!

"I desire to depart and be with Christ--which is better by far!" Philippians 1:23

James Meikle, "The Traveler"