Solve the puzzles by saying them out loud, over and over, faster and
faster, repeating the phrase, until you "hear" the answer.
Example: LAWN SAND JEALOUS (place) Answer: Los Angeles
1. SHOCK CUSSED TOE (person)
2. SAND TACKLE LAWS (fictional character)
3. MY GULCH HOARD UN (person)
4. MOW BEAD HICK (book)
5. TALL MISCHIEF HER SUN (person)
6. CHICK HE TUB AN AN US (product)
7. THOUGH TIGHT AN HICK (thing)
8. AISLE OH VIEW (phrase)
9. TUB RAID HEAP HUNCH (TV show)
10. CARESS TROUGHER CLUMP US (person)
11. DOCKED HEARSE WHOSE (person)
12. THUMB ILL KEY WAKE OWL LICKS HE (place)
13. AGE ANT HUB BLOWS HEAVEN (fictional character)
14. THESE HOUND DOVE MOO SICK (movie)
15. BUCK SPUN HE (fictional character)
Okay, the answers are below. Don't cheat. No! Don't hit the Page Down.
Leave the Down Scroll alone. Give it a try a first.
ANSWERS:
1. Jacques Cousteau
2. Santa Claus
3. Michael Jordan
4. Moby Dick
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Chiquita Banana
7. The Titanic
8. I love you
9. The Brady Bunch
10. Christopher Columbus
11. Doctor Seuss
12. The Milky Way Galaxy
13. Agent 007
14. The Sound of Music
15. Bugs Bunny
--selected from Mikey's Funnies.
The burly miner blinked as he left the dark interior of the coal mine.
Stopping at a faucet near the mine entrance, he washed the worst of the
grime from his face and hands, then headed towards his home on the
outskirts of the village. As he trudged along the dusty lane, he passed
the open door of a little church. Inside, a small crowd listened
intently as an energetic man gesticulated from the pulpit. Interested,
the miner stepped to the door.
"Absolute surrender is what we must have," the minister was saying. "Are
you willing to surrender yourself absolutely into His hand? If not, you
are not ready to meet your God." The minister paced back and forth on
the platform. "We do not know how much longer our earthly probation will
last. Tonight you are living; tomorrow may be too late. Ask yourself, I
beg of you, 'Am I ready to meet the Lord?'"
The miner, touched to the quick, slipped into the back pew. I am not
ready to meet God, he thought. I have lived a careless, godless life.
How can I make peace with Him? The meeting ended, and the people filed
out. Still the miner remained in the pew, his head in his hands.
Finally, the minister touched him on the shoulder. "Brother, are you
ready to meet the Lord?"
Blindly, the miner shook his head. "I know I am not. Oh, help me find
peace!"
An hour passed as the minister shared the plan of salvation; yet
something held the miner back from full surrender.
"It's getting late," the minister finally said. "Go home, and continue
to seek the Lord."
The miner shook his head. "Stay with me a little longer; it must be
settled tonight."
Once again the minister explained the way of salvation and prayed, but
in vain. Another hour passed.
"You must go home," the minister told him. "It's late, and I cannot make
it any clearer."
"It must be settled tonight," the miner repeated, his eyes burning with
earnestness.
"Then we shall stay here together," the minister agreed. Once more he
spoke of Jesus, and shared promise after promise. Once more he prayed,
but in vain. "I must go," the minister finally said. "It will soon be
morning. Go home, and return tomorrow night. Maybe then you will find
peace."
"Sir, I cannot leave this place until I find peace."
The poor man's voice trembled. "Tomorrow may be too late. It must be
settled tonight."
The minister could not resist his appeal. "By the help of God." he said,
"it shall be settled tonight."
Again he explained the steps of conversion; again he prayed. As he
spoke, the miner broke into sobs and tears, and at last the light
pierced his darkness.
"I see it!" he cried. "I give myself absolutely to God, to His will, to
do only what He wants. It is settled.
Praise His name, it is settled!" The two men knelt again, but this time
to thank God for bringing light to a sinner's soul.
The next morning the miner went to work as usual. During the day he was
sent to a distant part of the mine to fetch some tools. When he did not
return, his fellow workers went to look for him. They found that the
mine walls had caved in on him, and he was buried in the debris. Working
with pick and shovel, they began to dig. Finally, from the fragments of
rock and rubbish and stone which hid him from sight, came a faint sound:
"Tonight ---- would have been ---- too late. Thank God ---- it was
settled ---- last night!"
-Am I ready to meet the Lord?-
-- Author Unknown
--Selected from EMail Ministry newsletter.
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