A couple of short thoughts.......

* When need is greatest, God is nearest.
--German Proverb

* When you say a situation or a person is hopeless,
you are slamming the door in the face of God.
--Rev. Charles L. Allen

..... and 2 thoughts taken from a 1993 calendar......

* Conflict is inevitable. Fighting is a choice.

* The Native Americans start the day by saying:

"Thank you for this beautiful day (regardless of what kind of day it is):

Thank you for this life (regardless of what the life is);

Thank you for the water without which life would be impossible."

....... and a joke from Jack Burt...........:

A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards.

She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Christmas stamps?"

The clerk says, "What denomination?"

The woman says, "God help us. Has it come to this?! Give me 6 Catholic, 12

Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptist!"