The Adventurous Life Raymond B. Fosdick

05/28/24 06:33 AM

#4983

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns

May 28, 2024: Watch for circumstances that cause you to feel helpless and not equipped to handle. Refuse to dump down in despair and helplessness. Rise up to your potential in Me, says the Lord. Remind yourself that you belong to Me, and that you can do all things that have been given to you when you trust Me to bring you through. Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAY'S WORDS - RISE UP

Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. So live. Live! Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you. That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.' I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer. People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling. When they told me I had cancer - a very rare form called appendiceal cancer - I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning, I'd wake up and have an internal conversation with cancer. 'All right, dude,' I'd tell it, 'go ahead and hit me. But I'm going to hit you back even harder.' It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive. Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.' The most important thing I do is I'm a dad. I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.

I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today. Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future. All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us. And the Lord said you got to Rise Up! You've got to be true to who you are and what you do. For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.

Stuart Orlando Scott (July 19, 1965 – January 4, 2015) was an American sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, including on SportsCenter. Known for his hip-hop style and use of catchphrases, Scott was also a regular for the network in its National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) coverage.
In 2007, Scott had an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous. After going into remission, he was again diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and 2013. Scott was honored at the ESPY Awards in 2014 with the Jimmy V Award for his fight against cancer, less than six months before his death in 2015 at age 49.

05/28/24 12:17 PM

#4984

Notification was recently received, concerning the transition of another classmate, Wheatley Weatherspoon. Additional information concerning arrangements, has not been provided, however services will be officiated in Detroit Michigan. Let us recall the times of our association with "Wheat Check" and continue to uplift the Weatherspoon Family in prayer.

Prayer Warriors, your assistance is required. Prayers are requested for the families of Margie and Larry Reed. Larry's 47 year old niece transitioned and was buried last Saturday in Atlanta. Her mom was a BTW 1974 graduate, Lorene Bond McNeil. Margie was in Memphis this past Saturday, attending the funeral of her nephew, Steven McRae, who transitioned at the age of 43. Margie's spirits remain encouraging at this time, as she sends her love to her classmates. Please keep the McRae and Reed Families uplifted in prayer, during this unexpected period of bereavement.

05/29/24 03:41 AM

#4985

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAY'S WORD - RENEWAL

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit - the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being - in body, mind, and spirit. The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

Greg Anderson was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer in 1984. He was given 30 days to live. Refusing to accept the hopelessness of this prognosis, he went searching for people who had lived even though their doctors had told them they were “terminal.” His findings from interviews with over 16,000 cancer survivors form the strategies and action points for what has become an international cancer survival movement. Anderson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading wellness authorities. He is the author of eight books which have been translated into 29 languages.

05/29/24 08:56 AM

#4986

WELLNESS WEDNESDAY

The Popular Dried Fruit That Can Help Lower High Blood Pressure
Story by Beth Bradford
https://www.healthdigest.com/

High blood pressure can creep up on you unnoticed. While your blood pressure will rise and fall throughout the day, a consistently high blood pressure reading often doesn't have symptoms until it becomes a health problem such as stroke, aneurysm, heart attack, or vascular dementia. Because one-third of people with high blood pressure aren't aware of their condition, the National Institutes of Health stresses the importance of getting your blood pressure checked at least once a year.
A high blood pressure diagnosis doesn't necessarily mean you'll need to be on medication. You and your healthcare provider can take a close look at your cardiovascular risk factors and create a plan to manage your blood pressure. This might include exercising, limiting alcohol, quitting smoking, and ensuring a good night's sleep. You'll also need to make heart-healthy changes to your diet, such as reducing high-sodium foods while adding foods high in potassium. You can start reducing your high blood pressure by snacking on one food that's probably already in your cupboard: raisins.
Raisins Are High In Potassium
Most Americans don't get the recommended 3,400 milligrams of potassium a day for men and 2,600 for women. A small box of raisins provides 320 milligrams of potassium, which is just shy of 10% of the daily value for men and 12% for women. What's more, you'll only find 11.2 milligrams of sodium in your box of nature's candy. The average American eats more sodium than the recommended 2,300 milligrams a day. Too much sodium draws water into your bloodstream, which puts pressure on your blood vessels.
Potassium helps to keep your fluid levels in balance and pulls the excess sodium out of your body. Keeping a low ratio of sodium to potassium is important for controlling high blood pressure. A 2022 study in the European Heart Journal found that people who had more potassium in their diets had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly among women.
Other Potassium-Rich Foods
If you're not big into raisins, there are plenty of potassium-rich foods to control your blood pressure. You might already know that bananas are a good source of potassium, but a large banana offers less potassium than that small box of raisins with just 243 milligrams of potassium. Do you like passion fruit? Just half a cup of passion fruit packs 411 milligrams of potassium with 114 calories. A cup of kiwifruit has just 110 calories and gives you a whopping 562 milligrams of potassium. People who are looking to limit sugar can turn to a half cup of avocado, which offers 354 milligrams of potassium.
Don't eat fruit? Vegetables, beans, and dairy are also good sources of potassium. A medium red potato or a cup of cooked yams both provide more than 900 milligrams of potassium. A cup of cooked black beans comes in at 305 milligrams of potassium. You can also turn to a cup of nonfat yogurt for 628 milligrams of potassium.

This is for information purpose only, and should not be considered as a substitute for medical expertise. These are opinions from an external panel of individual doctors. Please seek professional help regarding any health conditions or concerns.

05/30/24 08:46 AM

#4987

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAYS WORD - UNWAVERING

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew. Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations. When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched. Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep, we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. Your self is sacred; be true to it.

Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst (21 October 1898 – 27 July 1981), a British author of spiritual books. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934) which has been translated into over 20 languages.

05/30/24 09:16 AM

#4988

TIME FOR ANOTHER

05/30/24 02:36 PM

#4989

Port Huron, MI

Wheatley Weatherspoon, Jr.
March 7th, 1952 to May 26th, 2024

Wheatley Weatherspoon Jr., 72, of Port Huron, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, May 26, 2024. He was born March 7, 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee to the late Ella and Wheatley Weatherspoon Sr. He married Mary Kathleen Lott on March 14, 2001. She preceded him in death on May 1, 2022.

Wheatley served in the U.S. Air Force during Vietnam. He was employed in local manufacturing for many years. Wheatley enjoyed listening to music, watching sports, and playing chess and dominos.

He leaves to mourn his passing, his son, Kim Weatherspoon; 10 grandchildren; one great grandchild; his siblings, Betty Weatherspoon, Gary (Shirley) Weatherspoon, Calvin (Cynthia “Cookie”) Weatherspoon and Sheila (Don) Ward; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Annekki Richmond.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 7, 2024 in Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church with visitation beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Reverend Arthur Turner will officiate.

Burial will be in the Allied Veterans Cemetery, Port Huron. Military honors will be conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Air Force and the St. Clair County Allied Veterans Honor Guard.

Visitation
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church
2801 Nern Street, Port Huron, MI 48060
Jun 07, 2024 from 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM

Funeral Service
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church
2801 Nern Street, Port Huron, MI 48060
Jun 07, 2024 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

05/31/24 01:09 AM

#4990

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAYS WORD - UNRAVEL

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision. What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.
You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life. The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will. What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment. Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
We can't allow ourselves to be depressed or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up. Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die. Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset. Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.

Frederick Philip Lenz III, also known as Rama , Zen Master Rama and Atmananda ; February 9, 1950 – April 12, 1998 was an American spiritual leader, writer, software designer, and record producer. He founded what he termed "American Buddhism", which incorporated the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta, mysticism, and New Age ideas.

WELCOME TO

SMOOTH
CONTEMPORARY JAZZ
FRIDAYS

06/01/24 08:01 AM

#4991

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAYS WORDS - POSITION YOURSELF

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us. You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things. Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it; by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.
The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world. An ancient, gnarled tree: too fibrous for a logger's saw, too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, outlasts the whole forest. A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.
Once you have seen the face of God, you see the same face on everyone you meet. Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. Some Warriors look fierce but are mild. Some seem timid but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human. A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased. Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Deng Ming-Dao (born 1954, San Francisco) is a Chinese American author, artist, philosopher, teacher and martial artist. Deng is his family name; Ming-Dao is his given name. From a young age, he studied Taoist internal arts such as Qigong and Kung-Fu. He is the author of 365 Tao, Everyday Tao, Scholar Warrior, and Chronicles of Tao. His books have been translated into fifteen languages.

06/01/24 10:42 AM

#4992

06/02/24 01:06 AM

#4993

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns

June 2, 2024: Many of you are exhausted from a relentless onslaught that kept you from thriving. You must come away from all the noise and seek solace in My presence, says the Lord. Come and be revived and rejuvenated, be at peace. 1 Peter 3:11 Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAYS WORDS - SEEK SOLACE

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives. Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable. Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life. The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father. In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto Him, the Man who suffered for mankind, who committed His life to healing the sick and comforting the disconsolate, is mindful of your sufferings, doubts, and heartaches. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. The simple secret is this: put your trust in the Lord, do your best, then leave the rest to Him.
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude. Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Bitner Wirthlin (June 11, 1917 – December 1, 2008) was an American businessman, religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was sustained to the Twelve on October 4, 1986, and ordained an apostle on October 9, 1986, by Thomas S. Monson. He became an apostle following the death of church president Spencer W. Kimball. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Wirthlin was accepted by the church membership as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

06/03/24 01:20 AM

#4994

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAYS WORD - CRAFT

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible. Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions. I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards. It's a unique fraternity to be a standup. I think everybody understands, you know, opportunity, and everybody - especially at the top - are genuinely rooting for you. I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?
I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. I have six brothers and sisters. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems. It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old. When I was little, I used to suck the candy coating off of Advil and spit the white part back in the bottle. When I was about nine, I went to school with a toothbrush in my mouth. I saw Method Man do it in a video.
I'm from New York, and I started in New York, which I think is a huge advantage because I wasn't overwhelmed by the city. I understood the city. All of the distractions that could come with somebody that started comedy in New York didn't really happen for me. Your number one job as a comedian is to be aware. You're supposed to understand the temperature in the room more than anyone on the planet - that's the whole craft of comedy. When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

Michael Che Campbell (born May 19,1983) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Che is best known for his work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he has served as co-anchor on Weekend Update alongside Colin Jost, and the two were co-head writers from 2017 until 2022. Che and Jost co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018.

IT'S TIME FOR
JUST JOKING MONDAYS

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One asks the other, "Does this taste funny to you?"
Why can't wildcats take tests? There are too many cheetahs.

Why did the melons have a big wedding? Because they cantaloupe.
Have you heard the joke about the bed? No? That's because it hasn't been made yet.

06/03/24 08:36 AM

#4995

06/04/24 05:33 AM

#4996

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns

June 4, 2024: You will have breakthrough in places that you have not considered to be significant until now. It will be circumstances that you believe you have no control over or that you have learned to live with. But I would have you be free of all hindrances that keep you from thriving spiritually, says the Lord. Freedom awaits! Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAY'S WORDS - THRIVING SPIRITUALLY

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles. Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress, that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory. I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy. Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life. I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible. If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God? The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics.

06/04/24 05:37 AM

#4997

06/04/24 08:32 AM

#4998

06/04/24 10:08 AM

#4999

James Stone

Happy belated birthday to all my classmates born in the glorious month of May God bless you with many more. I hope you enjoyed your special day. Be blessed.

06/04/24 04:40 PM

#5000

At this time, there is so much divisiveness in our country as politicians put their thirst for power above what is best for our country. Let us reflect on a president who put placed service over self.

Jimmy Carter served as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The former president entered hospice care more than a year ago. Since then he celebrated his 99th birthday last October and cast a mail in ballot in Georgia’s primary in May.

"I think the proudest accomplishment in general terms is maintaining peace,” the 39th president said. “We never dropped a bomb, we never fired a bullet, and we never launched a missile while I was president.” "I would like for people to remember that I kept the peace,” he said, “and that I promoted human rights almost without hesitation and without too much equivocation.”

Jimmy Carter’s Quotes on America

“We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.”

“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.”

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”

“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”

"Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities—not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself."

Jimmy Carter’s Quotes on Humanity

“To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.”

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”

“We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.”

“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end, we will triumph together in the right.”

“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”

06/05/24 08:25 AM

#5001

06/05/24 10:32 AM

#5002

The latest Gallup Poll survey asked a nationally representative sample of United States adults about their favorite way to spend an evening in the summer. The poll finds a majority of Americans prefer to spend their summer evenings outdoors, sitting on the patio, deck, or porch, and barbecuing the most common responses.

If you enjoy being outside this time of year you can keep those pesky flies away with this highly recommended fly trap.

Materials: aluminum foil, plastic bag and string

1. Start by crumpling sheets of aluminum foil into small balls. If you don't have foil, pennies will do.

2. Fill a plastic sandwich bag with water.

3. Add the aluminum foil balls to the water inside the bag and close the top of the bag securely to keep the water foil balls inside.

4. Attach a string to the bag which allows you to hang it in various locations.

This method should work both outside and inside your living spaces. While the exact scientific explanation is not entirely clear, several theories suggest the effectiveness of this method:

Light Reflection: Aluminum foil creates reflections that may confuse and deter flies.
Magnification of Light: The water-filled bag may act as a lens, intensifying sunlight to create an uncomfortable environment for flies.
Disruption of Fly Vision: Shiny foil balls may disrupt a fly's vision, making the area less appealing.

06/06/24 08:27 AM

#5003

06/06/24 11:55 AM

#5004

The Adventurous Life Raymond B. Fosdick

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. The dominant characteristic of such a life is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what others think.

It dares not only to assert a belief but to live it in the face of contrary opinion. It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of others. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it develops its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience.

The herd may graze or stampede where it pleases, but the one who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when alone.

06/07/24 08:33 AM

#5005

06/07/24 10:21 AM

#5006