Archive for February, 2004

perfect love

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

When God created the earth, everything was perfect. He gave his love to humans and His love was perfect. Adam and Eve gave their love to God, and their love was perfect. Sin had not marred mans’ ability to love. Adam and Eve gave love to each other, and their love was perfect. When man sinned, God’s love that He offered was still perfect, but mans’ love was corrupted. No longer could we offer to God perfect love. No longer could we offer to each other perfect love.

In spite of the imperfection of human love, I am daily amazed. He reflects in the minutest form how incomprehenisble God’s love must be. I cannot imagine loving someone as much as I love him. I do not feel worthy of his imperfect love. How dare I claim to be deserving of God’s perfect love?

COUNTRY WISDOM:

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

Don’t name a pig (chicken, cow, lamb or goat) you plan to eat.

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well
you bounce.

Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.

A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

Trouble with a milk cow is she won’t stay milked.

Don’t skinny dip with snapping turtles.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

Meanness don’t happen overnight.

To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their
houses.

Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain’t helpful.

Teachers, Moms, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

Don’t sell your mule to buy a plow.

Two can live as cheap as one if one don’t eat.

Don’t corner something meaner than you.

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to
catch flies.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or
weeds.

It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

Don’t go huntin’ with a fellow named Chug-A-Lug.

You can’t unsay a cruel thing.

Every path has some puddles.

Don’t wrestle with pigs: You’ll get all muddy and the pigs will love it.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.

The Ten Commandments display was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court
building. There was a good reason for the move.
You can’t post Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery and
Thou Shall Not Lie in a building full of lawyers
and Politicians without creating a hostile work environment

Shenanigans Farm

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

A day without time…

“That fence leaks like a sieve!”

“300-500 ml of methane…I think that’s wonderful.”

“When everybody leaves, she just sits on the porch and pouts. We need to get Eilie a dog.”

“I love your house, it always smells like fresh cooked food.”

“She’s a whole new dog with eyes.”

“I can never seem to grow time (thyme)”

“We have a clock that has an hour hand. We can tell time by the hour, within ten minutes or so. We don’t want to put too fine a point on it.”

Ah, life at shenanigans farm, a place without time.