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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

?Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace.? (From the hymn, "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus")

Count Your Blessings

Though this is the time of year we most often find ourselves counting our blessings, we should remind ourselves and one another that we are blessed the year through in the simplest and most precious of ways. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world. If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare, even in the United States. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch. If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all. Count Your Blessings! (Came to me over the internet)

Chaplin on Art Growing Out of Need for Money

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) Movie Actor

Things as Idols or Tools

My parents taught us that everything in our home was either an idol or a tool. (Barry St. Clair)

Eternal As Object of Your Desire

"Let temporal things serve your use, but the eternal be the object of your desire." Thomas A Kempis (Dayton, Howard, Your Money Counts, Tyndale House Publishers: Wheaton, IL, 1996, p. 139)

Significance Seen Through Eternity's Eyes

Think of some places that you visited as a child. Can you recall some that seemed huge then, but when you visit there now they look so small? Can you remember as a child wanting certain things so bad that you'd give almost anything to get them. But looking back on it now, it's embarrassing how insignificant they were? I've got to believe that this is the way it will be for us when we view the places we thought were so significant and think of the things we longed so badly to have as adults. Many of them will look so small and insignificant. (Idea from Dayton, Howard, Your Money Counts, Tyndale House Publishers: Wheaton, IL, 1996, p. 140.)

Impressing People You Don't Like

?People buy things they do not need with money they do not have to impress people they do not even like.? (Hugh Fooshee, You Can Beat the Money Squeeze, found in Dayton, Howard, Your Money Counts, Tyndale House Publishers: Wheaton, IL, 1996, p. 144)

The Mass of Our Things Grips Us

?Another benefit of giving is freedom. It?s a matter of basic physics. The greater the mass, the greater hold the mass exerts. The more things we own ? the greater their total mass ? the more they grip us, setting us in orbit around them. Finally, like a black hole, they suck us in.? (Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle, Multnomah Press, Sisters, OR, p. 33)

We Can't Take Our Toys With Us

Ever seen that bumper sticker ?He who dies with the most toys wins?? Millions of people act as if it were true. The more accurate saying is ?He who dies with the most toys dies ? and never takes his toys with him.? (Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle, Multnomah Press, Sisters, OR,p. 48)

Bankruptcies Exceed Graduates

"A PBS television program called "Affluenza," addresses what it calls the "modern-day plague of materialism." The program claims: The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his child. By age twenty, we've seen one million commercials . Recently, more Americans declared bankruptcy than graduated from college. In 90 percent of divorce cases, arguments about money play a prominent role." (Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle, Multnomah Press, Sisters, OR, pp. 50-51)

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