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lost cheerios and talking name shirts and whatnot

I cannot think of an occupation that does not affect other people in some form or fashion.  Can you? After all, the reason that you can get paid is because someone, somewhere, is willing to pay for a service you provide or a product that you help produce. Therefore, there is not an occupation that you can have that does not benefit from integrity. Maybe that's why the Bible says "whatever your hand finds to do," before "do it with all your heart."  Or "mightily," or "heartily."      Colossians 3:23/Ecclesiastes 9:10/Ephesians 6:7 The Bible is all about God loving people and teaching people to love other people with God's love.  So it makes sense that we're supposed to do our jobs as unto the Lord.  That should keep us from taking up occupations like thievery and murder-for-hire if we have any understanding at all about the nature of God.  But it should also keep us doing menial tasks with gusto. I have been thinking about th

I never got to tell you about the terrible awful

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It's kind of lost some of its zing, but i haven't even gotten to tell the people closest to me about a very dramatic minor horror story we lived through about a week ago. So i'm going to try to get it down on "paper" while it still has some of the zing left. The players: Us. image borrowed:   http://www.tarynblyth.co.za/articles/pack-theory-fact-or-fiction/ Neighborhood dogs. This guy, who wasn't really there. These beautiful chickens. These beautiful chickens. and oh yeah.... image borrowed from:   http://smehealthandsafety.co.uk/fire/ Fire. The titles: This very true tale has so much going on in it for me, that i can't seem to settle on a title. The Terrible Awful The Unhappy Graduation I Could Have Gone All Day Without Seeing That O.k.  I guess that's all i've got in the way of titles.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in March of this year, i d