"Let's Eliminate Negative Thinking" *

 

 

7let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:1-9

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Heaven and Earth

MANDEL, Myra

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For everything you have missed,

You have gained something else,

And for everything you gain,

You lose something else.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

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Casey hosted our Dine Around this month.

 

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Gretchen brought a deep dish cheesecake.

 

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Wayne, John

 

 

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Carmon gave an interesting talk at the Art Center

about his quilts and other works of art.

 

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Gail, back from the Peace Corps,

is again producing her pottery!!!

 

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Maria (center in blue) and other Rotarians are waving to the

Uganda students Maria will soon be visiting with medical supplies.

 

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Martin Postma was our speaker at Rotary on Friday.

He showed one of the Shelter Boxes that they send

out in emergencies. 15,000 of them went to Haiti along

with nine trained volunteers like Martin who show how they

can be used.

Here, Martin is holding up a water filter that can effectively

be used for more than a year.

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The human voice can never reach the distance

That is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

 

March 7, 2010    Third Sunday in Lent

 

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* "Let's Eliminate Negative Thinking."  Robert Schuler's acronym for lent. L.E.N.T. 

 

 

 

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.

Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.

 

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Isaiah 55:1-9

Psalm 63:1-8

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Luke 13:1-9