Monday Madness

Tonight there is only time to give the new clue, so without further ado...

Progressing from left to right, select 32 letters to remain in the same order and form a complete seven word sentence. Use the list only one time through.
CLUE: No two of the correct letters will be found adjacent to each other below:
CLUE: None of the letters are further than 5 spaces apart.

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New clue tomorrow.

Super Sunday

When I stop to think about it, every Sunday is "Super" here in the U.S.A.! And for the most part, all around the world.

Tonight there is only time to finish up the quotations after the super Sunday nap I had after dinner.

Quotable and the Not-so-quotable Quotes

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~Mark Twain

How true! Some of the things we have learned in school are truly an inhibition to further education. Take the age old friction between academia and experience, for instance. How many of our quotations reflect this?

"Experience keeps a mean school; fools will learn in no other!" ~Unknown. (I heard this one a lot while growing up.) Demeaning to say the least.

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." ~Pete Seeger

I would say if one does not know the difference between education and experience he is quite lacking in one or the other. ~RR

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896

Our inventors and early scientists were not uneducated men. Yet through experimentation (trial and error and sometimes many failures) experience became the educator.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." ~Rita Mae Brown

There are ups and downs from learning by experience, no one can deny that.

"Experience is what you got by not having it when you needed it." ~Author Unknown

Humorous, but sometimes there was not enough experience to make the right choice. The same could be said of academic study. There are some things that just aren't taught in books, and much of what is does not prepare one for life. The best things taught in the classroom are good methods of problem solving, and where to look for the answer if you cannot find it by any of those methods. Experience is a slow teacher in those areas of learning.

"If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon." ~Doug Rader

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." ~Auguste Rodin

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." ~Soren Kierkegaard

My Dutch grandmother told me the Dutch always do things backwards. Fortunately I have only one Dutch grandparent or I might have been named Benjamin Button. Now back to Samuel Clements for a final quote.

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." ~Mark Twain

The Friday Puzzle Hint

Progressing from left to right, select 32 letters to remain in the same order and form a complete seven word sentence. Use the list only one time through.
CLUE: No two of the correct letters will be found adjacent to each other below:
Another clue tomorrow. Answer Friday.

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The Saturday Edition

While the internet is fascinating, combing it for something to pass along is certainly time consuming. I have no link to recommend this week.
--- Well, hey! I did get a good chuckle out of this one:


Mount Dora got some badly needed rain today, and the drooping plants perked right up. The temperature continues to be warm, but not hot like it was.

Quotable and the Not-so-quotable Quotes

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." ~ Doug Larson
--- Well, either one will work for me.

The more you forget, the more life becomes filled with surprises. ~RR
The more you forget, the easier life becomes; tell the same jokes, quote the same quotations....

The Poet's Corner


The Bear Went Over to China

There are lands so far away
That they have night when we have day,
And they have day when we have night
So they must live a loathsome plight.

The bear went over to China,
The bear went over to China,
The bear went over to China,
To see what he could see.

The people there have an awful fright
To do their shopping in the night,
Perform their work without sight,
And have to sleep in broad daylight

The other side of the world,
The other side of the world,
The other side of the world,
Was all that he could see.

T.G.I.F.

Why is it whether I start on this early (like this afternoon) or late like most other days, that is the time my eyelids droop, my shoulders slump, and my head begins to bob?

I know I love to write and this is better than the nonsense I write for a good portion of the day, but there is something about having to do something. I guess that is why it gets put off until last on most nights. Anyway, Friday is a fun day and I look forward to this post more than any other day. Today I have decided to do this in installments, so if this does not close with a "good night" of some sort, it is not finished yet.

Quotable and the Not-so-quotable Quotes

"A quotation is a set of words people repeat to express a thought someone else came up with first, often with a wish that they had said them first." ~RAR

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." ~Albert Einstein

The Friday Puzzle

Progressing from left to right, select 32 letters to remain in the same order and form a complete seven word sentence. Use the list only once. CLUE will appear Sunday night.

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Answer will appear next Friday. Have a good night!

Thursday Praise

Today I discovered there is more to life than posting a blog every day. Two girls opened up about their pains and sorrows today. One has been talking with other friends about her problems and just took me into her confidence today. The other had never been able to talk about her pain before and now has three of four people praying for her. If I get permission from them, I will share more, but as of tonight, please pray for them as yet unidentified or unspoken requests.

God bless you all. Praise God for what he is doing. Good night!

Quotes used on this website

This page is being reworked as the repository for quotations used on this site. It is a double listing under topic and author.

Alphabetical by Author

Bridges, Jerry

"Your worst days are never so bad that you're beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace." ~ Jerry Bridges

Piper, John

"Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon." ~ John Piper

Twain, Mark

"Forgiveness is like the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~ Mark Twain

Alphabetical by Topic

God and Religion

Forgiveness
"Forgiveness is like the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~Mark Twain

Grace

"Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon." ~ John Piper

"Your worst days are never so bad that you're beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace." ~ Jerry Bridges




Life and Living

"There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience." ~ from an old French Proverb

Proverbs

"There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience." ~ from an old French Proverb

Tuesday's Child

At one time and in some paces Tuesday's Child meant children available for adoption or in need of foster care. I use it here as merely the product of the work that goes into the blog on Tuesday. It is then the thoughts given birth today.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes


Take flight if you must! All that you truly need will go with you.

A Thought to Share

There have been many times all through recorded history in which folks have been forced to flee. Sudden urgent relocation has not been common in recent history in the western world, however population shifts have. Current relocation is mainly job related.

I am writing about other reasons for moving, however. Religious persecution began again in many countries in the last century for many reasons. Some initiated the type of flight of which I write. The world under Hitler, the Bolshevik Revolution, the displaced Palestinians, Hungary and Poland to name only two of many overrun countries, genocide against people groups in many parts of the world, and the persecution of Christians worldwide.

I downloaded and filled out my passport application today. I feel it is an important thing to have in these times as situations around the world worsen in some areas and improve in others. I truly do not believe that this is going to be needed in the near future, but I choose to be prepared ahead of time. We should never become so complacent that we would say, "It cannot happen here." May it never be like any of the examples from the last century, but remember, we are not exempt.

This will have to be short tonight. My body can't take another late night like last night. Good night to you all.