GOD  WAS  BUSY…VERY BUSY

“If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!!”

A young Canadian paratrooper was taking some college courses
between assignments. He had completed 3 tours of duty in
Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who
was an avowed atheist and a member of the Canadian Civil
Liberties Association (CCLA).

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in.
He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "GOD, if you are real,
then I want you to knock me off this platform... I'll give you
exactly 15 min."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten
minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am GOD,
I'm still waiting."

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the soldier got
out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him;
knocking him clean off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The young soldier went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there
looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to,
noticeably shaken, looked at the soldier and asked,
"What in the world is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"


The young soldier stood up and calmly replied,
"GOD was too busy today protecting soldiers,
who are protecting your right to say stupid words and act like an idiot. So He sent me."

The classroom erupted in cheers!

Subject: Cranky Old Man

  

When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.

One nurse took her copy to Melbourne. The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas editions of magazines around the country and appearing in mags for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.

And this old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.

Cranky Old Man

What do you see nurses? . . .. . .What do you see?
What are you thinking .. . when you're looking at me?
A cranky old man, . . . . . .not very wise,
Uncertain of habit .. . . . . . . .. with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food .. . ... . . and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice . .'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice . . .the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . .. . . A sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not . . . ... lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding . . . .The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking?. .Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse .you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am . . . . .. As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, .. . . . as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten . .with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters .. . . .. . who love one another
A young boy of Sixteen . . . .. with wings on his feet
Dreaming that soon now . . .. . . a lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty . . . ..my heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the vows .. .. .that I promised to keep.
At Twenty-Five, now . . . . .I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . And a secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . .. . . . . My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . .. With ties that should last.
At Forty, my young sons .. .have grown and are gone,
But my woman is beside me . . to see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, .. ...Babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . My loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me . . . . My wife is now dead.
I look at the future ... . . . . I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing .. . . young of their own.
And I think of the years . . . And the love that I've known.
I'm now an old man . . . . . . .. and nature is cruel.
It's jest to make old age . . . . . . . look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles .. .. . grace and vigour, depart.
There is now a stone . . . where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass . A young man still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells
I remember the joys . . . . .. . I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . . . life over again.
I think of the years, all too few . . .. gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people .. . . . .. . . open and see.
Not a cranky old man .
Look closer . . . . see .. .. . .. .... . ME!!

Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within. We will all, one day, be there, too!

PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM (originally written by Dave Griffith)
The best and most beautiful things of this world can't be seen or touched. They must be felt by the heart!

OUR GOD – THE ONE AND ONLY GOD IS PERFECT … and that means;

God is accurate, HIS accuracy is, to say the least …FASCINATING. 

I've never given most of this a thought !!!! But I received this wonderful mail which speaks a lot about GOD.

God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of  eggs, for example:        - the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;  those of  the  canary in  14 days;  those of the barnyard hen in 21  days;  the eggs of ducks and geese hatch in  28 days; those of the mallard in 35  days;   the eggs  of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42  days.

(Notice, they are all divisible by  seven, the number of days in a  week!)

God's  wisdom is seen in the making of an  elephant. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to  live on two legs. For this reason He gave it  four fulcrums so that it can rise from the  ground easily.

The horse  rises from the ground on its two front legs  first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of  creation!  God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in  the number of grains.

Each  watermelon has an even number of stripes on the  rind.  Each orange has an even number of  segments.  Each ear of corn has an even  number of rows.  Each  stalk of wheat has an even number of  grains.  Every bunch of bananas has on its  lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row  decreases by one, so that one row has an even  number and the next row an odd  number.

The waves  of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the  minute in all kinds of  weather.  All grains  are found in even numbers on the stalks, and  the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and  a hundred fold - all even  numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at  certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said  that if he had a conservatory containing the  right kind of soil, moisture and temperature,  he could tell the time of day or night by the  flowers that were open and those that were  closed!

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a  beautiful way for His glory, if you will only  entrust Him with your life. If you try to  regulate your own life, it will only be a mess  and a failure..

Only the One Who made the  brain and the heart can successfully guide them  to a profitable end.


I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I  DID AND REALISE HOW GREAT,  POWERFUL,  MIGHTY  AND  AWESOME  GOD  IS.

LET US BOW OUR HEAD, ADORE HIM, THANK HIM AND TRY TO UNDERTSAND…KNOW…NOT GOD (THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE)…BUT HIS WORKS AND LOVE FOR EACH OF US.




May God Bless  You In Ways You Never  Even Dreamed Today!

GOD CAN USE YOU

DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK GOD CAN’T USE YOU ???

READ…REMEMBER…MAKE COMPARISONS…ANSWER:

Noah was a DRUNK                                                                          Abraham was too OLD                                                                             Isaac was a DAYDREAMER                                                                       Jacob was a LIAR                                                                                     Leah was UGLY                                                                                    Joseph was ABUSED                                                                                  

Moses used to STUTTER                                                                        Gideon was AFRAID                                                                             Samson was a WOMANISER                                                                     Rahab and Tamar were PROSTITUTES                                                                                     Mary Magdalen was a great SINNER                                                                                                                                                      Jeremiah and Timothy were too YOUNG                                                                      

David was an ADULTERER and a MURDERER                                                                                                                   Elijah was SUICIDAL                                                                              Isaiah preached NAKED                                                                          Jonah ESCAPED from God                                                                    Naomi was a WIDOW                                                                                             Job went BANKRUPT                                                                           

Peter DENIED Jesus                                                                                                                                                         The disciples FELL ASLEEP whilst praying                                                                                                   Martha WORRIED about everything                                                                                                  The Samaritan woman was DIVORCED                                                    Zaccheus was too SHORT                                                                         Timothy had ULCER                                                                                  Lazarus was a DEAD MAN

NOW, think of what you are, IF God calls you, right NOW.                       NONE of those called were of noble birth or influential, nor academic, yet God chose the SIMPLE things, people, to shame the WISE. HE chose the WEAK to shame the STRONG… so that no one can boast before HIM (Corinthians).

SPIRITUAL ROADSIGNS

SPIRITUAL  ROADSIGNS  FOR  MY  LIFE

When you catch yourself thinking or speaking or acting in a self-seeking way, bear in mind that in this case you are not serving God, but yourself.  Ponder well on Christ's words that "whoever loves his life will lose it". (Mt.16.25)    

Be assured that every thought that worries you does not come from God, for God is a God of peace.  It would be coming either from the devil or, from our nature, two sources of wickedness.  Consequently, chase that thought away quickly, for if you linger on it, it will certainly bring you grief.

No one can be saved without having a true devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for Christ told us that if we do not forgive others, neither will God forgive us, and that we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven if we do not become like little children.You have a true devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus if you imitate this Heart,which is truly meek and humble. 

If unfortunately you happen to give your consent to a mortal sin, go and receive the sacramental absolution as quickly as possible.  This is because death can happen any moment, and also because of the fact that the good works we perform when we are in a state of sin have no merit. 

Fix in your mind that exercise in self-denial and patience, does not avail you for your salvation, if you do not persevere to the end.  God promises the reward to whosoever starts well, but he gives it only to the one who finishes well.   

Spiritual Directory from the writings of St. George Preca, the Maltese saint.