Joke #35 - October 2005

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tree, a bolt of lightening hit the tree and split it right down the middle.
The woodpecker backed off and surveyed the situaation, looked at it for another minute, and then he flew away.
Later on he came back, and he had nine other woodpeckers with him.
He said, "There it is, gentlemen, right there. That's what I did. Right there, gentlemen, that's what I did!"

So I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the
gift of a handicap to keep me in constant
touch with my limitations. Satan's angel
did his best to get me down; what he in fact
did was push me to my knees. No danger
then of walking around high and mighty! At
first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged
God to remove it. Three times I did that,
and then he told me, "My grace is enough;
it's all you need. My strength comes into
its own in your weakness." Once I heard
that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit
focusing on the handicap and began
appreciating the gift. It was a case of
Christ's strength moving in on my
weakness. Now I take limitations
in stride, and with good cheer.... I
just let Christ take over! And so
the weaker I get, the stronger
I become.
2 Cor. 12:7-10
The Message

Pray for One Another

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:16 (NIV)

I cannot tell why there should come to me
A thought of someone miles and miles away!
In swift insistence on the memory,
Unless a need there be that I should pray.

Too hurried oft are we to spare the thought,
For days together, of some friends away;
Perhaps God does it for us, and we ought
To read His signal as a call to pray.

Perhaps, just then, my friend has fiercer fight,
And more appalling weakness and decay
Of courage, darkness, some lost sense of right;
And so, in case he needs my prayer, I pray.

Friend, do the same for me. If I intrude
Unasked upon you, on some crowded day,
Give me a moment's fervent prayer as interlude;
Be very sure I need it, therefore, pray.

And when you pray, dear friend, I ask of thee,
That thou will seek of God not mine own way;
Not what I want, but His blest thought for me,
Do thou through Jesus Christ implore, I pray.

Marianne Farningham
(The last verse added by James M. Gray)

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