Happy New Year!

It's almost time to dust off your old resolutions from 09, 08, 07 ... 96, 95 .... Yeah, I've made resolutions to do better, try harder and be nicer, but eventually I fall on my face. I don't stress about it anymore. I also have quit making resolutions that are unreal. A resolution to have a publisher print my book is too lofty, and incidentally out of my control. Instead, I focus on the nearer objectives that will give me a better chance at getting there, such as sending X submission letters a week. ... Or I might just watch Star Trek reruns all night after all.

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Mrs. Smellybottom

If you're not experienced with non-profits, let me tell you that memorializing donated things are a constant issue. From Bibles to Buildings, donors like to be recognized. It must really be awful when the donor has an unfortunate name like Ima Hogg or the Pew Charitable Trust. My current favorite is actually pretty cool: The Carver Medical Research Building.

Confucius say: "Man who go to bed with itchy bottom, wake up with smelly finger."



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Kids and their cellphones, I'm tempted to begin: "when I was their age ..." but when I was their age, it was walkie-talkies. When our parents were their age, it was the telephone. Shoot, I can remember stringing tin cans together. There is just something magical about communication. You feel wanted, needed never alone. The saddest kid would be the one with a fancy cellphone and no friends to talk to. So, what else can I say? Be a friend, be a communicator but never forget the importance of face-to-face and a hand on the shoulder.

By the way, I really like this strip because it came from a real life suggestion. I barely had to work at it.



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Into every life, some [rain] must fall

Ya know, much of life is just plain random - or at least as far as we can tell. Good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. Usually, it's just a random mix of the in-between. God provides, but He's no "sugar daddy" and I think He's got a pretty good sense of humor to boot. The point is: I can't blame God for the hard times but instead ask His guidance in the midst ... And have some laughs along the way.

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Your sermon on encouragement was pointless.

Oh the patience it must take to be a pastor. I swear church members (including me) can completely lose the point of community and loving their neighbor. Unfortunately the Pastor has to just grin and bear it.

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Part Time Pastor?

I've always wanted to be a pastor. When I was a kid, it was mostly because I thought the hours were awesome - AND as long as I had to go to church, I might as well get paid for it. Imagine, instead of being told what to do, I'd be the one telling them! Now that I'm older, I don't think I could handle the long hours, and people telling me how to do my job ...

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Yikes!

Here's a Halloween comic from the archives.

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