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Today's Quotations –  FEAR :

 


I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov 



You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer




You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan




Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson



Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

 

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  Today's Word – AVATAR
   

 


av·a·tar noun 1. The incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form. 2. An embodiment, as of a quality or concept; an archetype: the very avatar of cunning. 3. A temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity: occultism in its present avatar. [Sanskrit: ava, down + tarati, he crosses.]

 But among followers of New Age mysticism, this pop psychologist and avatar of the Human Potential Movement is a legend.

From: NEWSWEEK, July 1, 1996, p. 23.
(Referring to Jean Houston: The woman who had Hillary talk to Eleanor Roosevelt.)


Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

 

Today's Fact

 


FACT

Halloween
A Growing Holiday

Halloween has become an nonofficial American holiday — with a growing number of  parents taking the day off to spend with their costumed children, communities hosting big-budget parties for kids,  and blowouts for adults at private homes and neighborhood watering holes.
    
Researchers at Hallmark Cards say that 65% of us will  decorate our homes and offices for Halloween — more than for any holiday but Christmas.  From   specially-erected  haunted houses to resurrected horror films, from witch-topped teapots to black cat garlands, from spider earrings to leaf-stuffed jack-'o-lantern bags, Halloween is            an in-your-face season beginning at Labor Day.
    
According to media accounts, several hundred thousand  American Pagans, Druids and witches celebrate Halloween as a  holy day called Samhain (pronounced sow-en) or Shadowfest.  Samhain is a 2,000 year old Celtic festival held on October 31 to honor Samhain, the lord of death.  The festival marks the end of what the Pagans considered "life" (summer) and the beginning of "death" (winter)

As Christianity spread during the Middle Ages, the Church  replaced the fire festival of Samhain with the feast of All   Saints, in remembrance of all those who died for and in    Christ. At Halloween ("All Hallows Eve"), Christians prepare for the next day's holy day.  Like Earth-centered Pagans,  Christians reflect on Autumn's season of death and dying. But there's a big difference: Christian reflections at Halloween -- as in all seasons -- begin with the Father/Creator, Son/Redeemer and Holy Spirit/Sanctifier. 

At Halloween/Samhain, Pagans gather to sing ritual songs and chant ancient sayings and prayers, most of which were condemned by the early Christian church. Meditating by    flickering candlelight, they evoke the supernatural and honor the changing seasons of "goddess Earth." Some put out food offerings for the dead.  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (EP)

The previous article is from ZNS: HALLOWEEN: A GROWING HOLIDAY - Their source was Source:  Evangelical Press  News Service; for subscription information, call  612-941-1605, fax 612-941-3010 or E-mail: editor@epnews.com)

 
  "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."

 2 Timothy 1:7

Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.

1 John 4:18 (NLT)

 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

  
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   



Command to Moses

 Moses is sitting in the Egyptian ghetto, things are going terrible: the Pharaoh won't even talk to him, the rest of the Hebrews are mad at him for making the overseers even more irritable than usual. He's about ready
to give up.

Suddenly a booming, sonorous voice speaks from above: "YOU, MOSES, HEED ME. I HAVE GOOD NEWS, AND BAD NEWS."

Moses is staggered. The voice continues:

"YOU, MOSES, WILL LEAD THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL FROM BONDAGE. IF THE PHARAOH REFUSES TO RELEASE YOUR BONDS I WILL SMOTE EGYPT WITH A RAIN OF FROGS."

"YOU, MOSES, WILL LEAD THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO THE PROMISED LAND. IF THE PHARAOH BLOCKS YOUR WAY I WILL SMOTE EGYPT WITH A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS."

"YOU, MOSES, WILL LEAD THE PEOPLE TO FREEDOM AND SAFETY. IF THE PHARAOH'S ARMY PURSUES YOU, I WILL PART THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA TO OPEN YOUR PATH TO THE PROMISED LAND."

Moses is stunned. He stammers, "That's, that's fantastic, I can't believe it! - but what's the bad news?"

"YOU, MOSES, MUST WRITE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT."




Elephant Memory

 An elephant was drinking out of a river one day, when he spotted a turtle asleep on a log. So, he ambled on over and kicked it clear across the river. "What did you do that for?" Asked a passing giraffe. "Because I recognized it as the same turtle that took a nip out of my trunk 53 years ago."

"Wow, what a memory" commented the giraffe.

"Yes," said the elephant, .... "turtle recall".

 Irish Prisoners

During World War II, the captured Allied agents of Stalag 15 were attempting yet another daring prison break. On this particular night, Major O'Roarke and Lieutenant Flanagan were chosen to try to cut their way through the bars of the East gate. They were hard at work when the siren sounded, and the floodlights caught them in the act. As the German officer led them away, O'Roarke said, "We were so careful. How did you ever catch us?"

The German replied, "It's very simple. Somehow, I can always tell .... when Irish spies are filing.""

PREPARED SPIRITUALLY

Before performing a baptism, the priest approached the young father and said solemnly, "Baptism is a serious step. Are you prepared for it?"

"I think so," the man replied. "My wife has made appetizers and we have a caterer coming to provide plenty of cookies and cakes for all of our guests."

"I don't mean that," the priest responded. "I mean, are you prepared spiritually?"

"Oh, sure," came the reply. "I've got a keg of beer and a case of whiskey."

TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 


He who places head in sand, will get kicked in the end!

 

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