A Test, Corinthians & Oreos

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My cousin Naomi shared this on Facebook.

I finished reading it in about 35 seconds.

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I was going to write something about rain, but it’s raining everywhere. So, here is a poem by Sidney Lanier entitled, “Souls And Rain-Drops.”

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,

Then vanish, and die utterly.

One would not know that rain-drops fell

If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.

So souls come down and wrinkle life

And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.

One might not know that souls had place

Were't not for the wrinkles in life's face.

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Last Friday Dee and I attended a Cursillo gathering at our Church. There was a witness given by Desi, one of the more recent men to attend a weekend. He read from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13:1-13. It brought chills as I listened to each line …

“If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,

it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

I read this at Rich and Kathy’s funeral. They are missed and will never be forgotten. 

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“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss

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Dee usually keeps the six pack Oreo cookies for snacks. This week while I was enjoying my Oreos, I noticed that two of the six had less cream fillings than the others. That means 1/3 of my Oreos were sub-standard. This could be a simple glitch, or Nabisco is cutting corners. So I’m requesting that Nabisco recheck their quality control and correct this issue, please.

There was an Oreo song that my friend Sally, wife of Deacon Danny, and I use to sing when we snacked on Oreo cookies.

"Girls are nice but oh what icing comes in Oreos. 

Oreos, the best because it's the grandest cookie that ever was. 

Little girls have pretty curls but I like Oreos; 

Oreos, the best because it's the grandest cookie that ever was..."

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The Central Virginia 511th Women’s Cursillo weekend started this week. Thursday 17, through Sunday 20.

Please pray for the team members and candidates.

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Kermit The Frog - “Rainbow Connection”

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