Subject: You're living in 2002 if..
1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail addresses.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son! 's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
15. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else.
Today's Truth: "Our Love...God's Love"
"Love Is...Little Kids' Version!"
Matthew 19:14
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not
hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
These are truisms that only kids can express. A group of
professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8
year-olds "What does love mean?"
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could
have imagined.
"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over
and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for
her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too.
That's love."- Rebecca - age 8
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is
different. You know that your name is safe in their
mouth."- Billy - age 4
"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving
cologne and they go out and smell each other." - Karl - age 5
"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your
French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
-Chrissy - age 6
"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4
"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes
a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
- Danny - age 7
"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of
kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My
mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."
-Emily - age 8
"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop
opening presents and listen."- Bobby - age 5
"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a
friend who you hate."- Nikka - age 6
"There are two kinds of love. Our love. God's l
ove. But God
makes both kinds of them."- Jenny - age 4
"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears
it everyday." -Noelle - age 7
"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are
still friends even after they know each other so well."
-Tommy - age 6
"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and scared. I
looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving
and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared
anymore."- Cindy - age 8
"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone
else kissing me to sleep at night."- Clare - Age 5
"Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken."
-Elaine - age 5
"Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says
he is handsomer than Robert Redford."- Chris - age 8
"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left
him alone all day."- Mary Ann - age 4
"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her
old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."- Lauren - age 4
"I let my big sister pick on me because my Mom says she only
picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister
because I love her." - Bethany - age 4
"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and
little stars come out of you."- Karen - age 7
"Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn't
think it's gross."- Mark - age 6
"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But
if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
-Jessica - age 8
1 John 4:8 -
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:16 -
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
PRAYER -
God of love, fill us with your presence that we might love as you do.
Amen.
--Selected from God@Work newsletter. God@Work is a ministry of St Mark's United Methodist Church, 8550 Pioneers Blvd., Lincoln Nebraska 68520 U.S.A.
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