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Get Hold of Your Elf!

"Get hold of your 'elf!"

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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 1 - Issue 21 - August 14, 2001
Published every Tuesday evening

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The task ahead of us is never as great . . .
as the Power behind us.

CONTENTS:
Subscriber Spotlight
Feature Article
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera

God promises a safe landing . . .
not a calm passage.

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FEATURE ARTICLE

My daughter sent me this, and I think it is worth sharing here:

Take a few minutes and read these. THINK about them one at a time BEFORE going on to the next one . . . IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

Falling in love.

Laughing so hard your face hurts.

A hot shower.

No lines at the Super Wal-Mart.

A special glance.

Getting mail.

Taking a drive on a pretty road.

Hearing your favorite song on the radio.

Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

Hot towels out of the dryer.

Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.

Chocolate milkshake. (or vanilla!)

A long distance phone call.

A bubble bath.

Giggling.

A good conversation.

The beach.

Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter.

Laughing at yourself.

Midnight phone calls that last for hours.

Running through sprinklers.

Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.

Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.

Laughing at an inside joke.

Friends.

Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.

Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.

Your first kiss.

Making new friends or spending time with old ones.

Playing with a new puppy.

Having someone play with your hair.

Sweet dreams.

Hot chocolate.

Road trips with friends.

Swinging on swings.

Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking eggnog.

Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid.

Going to a really good concert.

Making eye contact with a cute stranger.

Winning a really competitive game.

Making chocolate chip cookies.

Having your friends send you homemade cookies.

Seeing smiles and hearing laughter from your friends.

Holding hands with someone you care about.

Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.

Riding the best roller coasters over and over.

Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you.

Watching the sunrise.

Getting out of bed every morning and thanking God for another beautiful day.

"Those who desire to give up freedom
in order to gain security will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one."

—Thomas Jefferson

TODAY'S CHUCKLE

Know someone who's got that cold/flu bug that's making the rounds? You know, the one that makes you cough so bad that you try to figure out how to get nicotine into your body without actually inhaling smoke? Well, pass this along with a "Get Well Soon!"

John was a clerk in a small drugstore, but he was not much of a salesman. He could never find the item the customer wanted. Bob, the owner, had had about enough and warned John that the next sale he missed would be his last.

Just then a man came in coughing and asked John for their best cough syrup. Try as he might, John could not find the cough syrup. Remembering Bob's warning, he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once. The customer did as John said and then walked outside and leaned against a lamppost.

Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had transpired. "He wanted something for his cough, but I couldn't find the cough syrup. I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once," John explained. "Ex-Lax won't cure a cough!" Bob shouted angrily. "Sure it will," John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamppost. "Look at him. He's afraid to cough!"

The Goal

If you think success—success has begun;
If you think you can win, your battle is won!
Whatevver you need you can have, you'll find:
It's all in the way you set your mind.
If you feel that your part in the world is small,
You may never achieve your work at all;
But feel that your life, of God's life is a part—
Then you'll work in the way you have st your heart.
If you know you are great, you will do great things;
Your thoughts will soar on eagle's wings;
Your life will reach its destined goal,
If you know the way to set your soul.

—Katherine Wilder Ruggles

TODAY'S ENGLISH LESSON

Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue.

Here is an example of very poor form:

"Can you do that, not me?"

This is much better:

"Can you do that? Not me!"

We'll address the usage issue first, which would call for "I" instead of "me" at the end; however, the above form has been adopted for common usage. It just seems to be more "user friendly." "Not I!" still would be reserved for formal usage.

Note: To test the form of usage, insert the subject before the verb: "I can't" (not "Me can't")!

As to the punctuation used in the cited example, it is wholly wrong! In "Can you do that, not me?" the question falls after "that," NOT after "me"! "Not me" addresses the question, and by putting the question mark at the appropriate place and using an exclamation point after that two-word sentence, emphasis is added effectively and efficiently.

See? Elementary English is VERY simple! You just have to pay attention. Understanding the explanation will prevent you from making ignorant mistakes.

Then take this honey from the bitterest cup,
There is no failure save in giving up—
No real fall so long as one still tries—
For seeming set-backs make the strong man wise.
There's no defeat, in truth, save from within:
Unless you're beaten there, you're sure to win.

INTERNET HINTS & TIPS

Calendar: Current Day is Highlighted
This is a very interesting and fascinating JavaScript calendar. It shows you the current month's calendar, and the current day is highlighted! A very neat effect—some great JavaScripting!
http://www.resource-a-day.com/resources/calendar.html

Better a thousand enemies outside
the house than one inside.

—Arabian proverb

GUEST ARTICLE

10 Passion Principles to Creating the Rest of Your Life
©2000 Julie Jordan Scott

1. Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

2. Commit to yourself as well as to those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul out of love, rather than fear. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

3. Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.

4. Dwell completely in a place of gratitude. Slipping into neediness will become less of a habit when you repeatedly shift towards gratitude, away from poverty consciousness.

5. Use a Passion Formula of Recognize/Re-review-uate/Restore in place of the Shoulda/Woulda/Coulda whirlwind. The former is based in increased knowledge and abundance, while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. You would rather be richly passionate!

6. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! Humor is very attractive, very passionate, life-giving.

7. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time to learn whatever lessons you are meant to be learning. Become a part of a community of people where you can express from the heart and embrace each other's dreams and life philosophy. Know that you will be honored as you honor one another.

8. When emotions arise, flow with them. Take time out to be fully in the moment. This will model for children and your colleagues what it means to be authentically engaged in life, no matter what is dished out. The freedom for you AND those whose lives you touch will amaze you.

9. Be strongly vulnerable in connecting with people core to core instead of superficially. Replace backing away behavior with drawing close behavior. Practice interdependency for the strength of synergy, rather than the weakness of self indulgence.

10. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.

INSPIRATION

Do you accept the Power within,
Or do you say—'"Tomorrow,
Or after that, I will begin,"
And try from time to time to borrow
Sweet, precious moments, quickly sped,
On futile paths by error led?
Our God has willed a legacy
To all of those believing.
So why not change your "it might be"
To just "I am receiving
A guiding hand in every task,
And full returns for all I ask."
Do you desire success to win?
Humbly accept the Power within.

—John Graham

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