From the back of a coffee cup

This morning as I sit and ingest my drug of choice I happen to read the saing on the back of the Statbucks cup. It reads as follows;
“The world burst at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But don’t do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don’t take it personal when they say ‘no’ they may not be smart enough to say yes.”
Keith Olbermann

Just a thought for the day;
Mervi

Just a thought.

Good morning, I sit here this morning in a little out of the way coffee shop. I am just slowly enjoying a cup of my drug of choice and just doing some idle thinking. Looking to the East there is a beautiful view of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sitting here and with quietness watching the sun reveal the beautiful snow not lonely on the pikes, but more like a great white shawl wrapper around the greater portions of these majestic mountains. The great quit strength I see and almost feel in these great mountains as they speak to me of the great power of our God as He formed and established this world. There two points that have always been a wonderment to this old man. One He thought enough of me to let something like these stately mountains which just stand there for me to see and enjoy. Second when He created man He gave to man the ability to somehow perceive beauty and enjoy it.

Thanks for stoppiong by today;
Mervi

Californina ?

-- California’s state expenditures grew from $104 billion in 2003 to $145 billion in 2008.

-- California has the worst credit rating in the nation.

-- California has the fourth highest unemployment rate in the nation, 9.3 percent -- higher even than the car manufacturing state of Michigan.

-- California has the second highest home foreclosure rate.

-- California’s tax-paying middle class is leaving the state. California’s net loss last year in state-to-state migration exceeded every other state's. New York, another left-run state, was second.

-- Since 2000, California’s job growth rate -- which in the late 1970s was many times higher than the national average -- has lagged behind the national average by almost 20 percent.

-- California has lost 25 percent of its industrial work force since 2001.

My source for the above is; http://dennisprager.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2009/02/24/from_california_to_the_boy_scouts,_it_destroys_more_than_it_builds
Just a troubled thought this morning:
Mervi

I was reading Karen's blog this morning! When this thought all came together, so I guess you maight blam it on her ;-}

Hypocrite
“Hypocrisy” occurs only once in the Old Testament as the translation of ḥōneph (Isa_32:6, the Revised Version (British and American) “profaneness”); ḥānēph, from which it is derived, means properly “to cover,” “to hide,” or “becloud,” hence, to pollute, to be polluted or defiled, to make profane, to seduce; as a substantive it is translated “(ISBE Dictionary)

To cover, hide like a plastic mask. To hide so that you can becloud the issue or the situation in which you are involved.

“Hypocrisy,” “hypocrite” are frequent in the New Testament, chiefly in Christ's discourses in the Gospels. The word hupokrisis (primarily, “an answer,” “response”) meant generally, in classical Greek, stageplaying, acting, the histrionic art; hence, it came to mean acting a part in life, etc. an actor under an assumed character (stage player), that is, (figuratively) a dissembler (“hypocrite”): - (ISBE Dictionary)hypocrite

Haven't we watched someone who is on a stage acting out a role or part of life? This part of life is not what they really are or want to happen. They have become a masked stage player!

(www.merriam-webster.com)
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
Date:
13th century
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

That someone who takes the time, invest the effort, works with some great diligence to present a “false appearance.” Not just in the arena of religion! In their day to day existence you can watch these people fight as they remove one mask in an abrupt hurry to replace it with a second and then a third on they go.
We have all seen this person in any area of life, religious, secular, the job, volunteer and even the political arena!
I have often sat an pondered? Have these ACTORS ever forgot or misplaced a mask and find themselves in the right place with the wrong mask ready to put it on, step on stage to perform and then come to that realization?

Just my thoughts as I pass this way today;
Mervi

Job or Minisrty ?

If you are doing something because no one else will

it’s a job.
If you are doing it to serve the Lord

it’s a ministry.
If you are doing it just well enough to get by

it’s a job.

If you are doing it to the best of your ability

it’s a ministry.
If you quit because no one thanked or praised you

it’s a job.
If you stayed even no one seemed to notice

it’s a ministry.
If you do it because someone else said it needed to be done

it’s a job.
If you are doing it because you are convinced it needs to be done

it’s a ministry.

From, The Lord said, or was that me, by T.F. Tenney.

Putin warns US to eschew socialism!

I heard about this article this morning and only now had the time to research it. Can you believe it, the Russians are telling US the U. S. of A. that it won’t work.

“Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.
“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

Yes, Mr. Putin is telling US that Socialism has not worked and will not work. Then you have to stop and think, we are the U S of A and we can do it better. Really! NO, we do not want to end up having to try and rebuild after such a collapse. Come on leaders, the Russians admit it didn’t work. Look at China; it too is moving toward a capitalist form of economy. But we are going in the other direction.

Enough!
Here is my source for the quotation. To all the best of luck mixed with prayer!

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/putin_warns_us_to_eschew_socia.html

Just my thoughts as I pass this way;
Mervi

Something I have read.

Something to think about.

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” (James Thurber)

“Some can’t distinguish between being busy and being productive. They are human windmills, flailing at work, but actually accomplishing little.” (Caroline Donnelly, Money Magazine)

Just my thoughts today;
Mervi