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The Guild 11-9-2003 Thoughts Of Finding A Penny

Posted on 11/09/2003 6:09:56 AM PST by BigWaveBetty

THOUGHTS OF FINDING A PENNY

You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being

good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time I've ever

heard this twist on the story. Gives you something to think about.

Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to

spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend,

Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy,

with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her

house.

The first day and evening went well, and Arlene was delighted to have

this rare glimpse into how the very wealthy live. The husband's

employer was quite generous as a host, and took them to the finest

restaurants. Arlene knew she would never have the opportunity to

indulge in this kind of extravagance again, so was enjoying herself

immensely.

As the three of them were about to enter an exclusive restaurant that

evening, the boss was walking slightly ahead of Arlene and her

husband. He stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for a

long, silent moment.

Arlene wondered if she was supposed to pass him. There was nothing on

the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped,

and a few cigarette butts. Still silent, the man reached down and

picked up the penny.

He held it up and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had

found a great treasure. How absurd! What need did this man have for a

single penny?

Why would he even take the time to stop and pick it up?

Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at her. Finally, she could

stand it no longer. She causally mentioned that her daughter once had

a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of

some value.

A smile crept across the man's face as he reached into his pocket for

the penny and held it out for her to see. She had seen many pennies

before!

What was the point of this?

"Look at it." He said. "Read what it says." She read the words

"United States of America."

"No, not that; read further."

"One cent?" "No, keep reading."

"In God we Trust?" "Yes!" "And?"

"And if I trust in God, the name of God is holy, even on a coin.

Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription. It is written on every

single United States coin, but we never seem to notice it! God drops

a message right in front of me telling me to trust Him?

Who am I to

pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if my trust IS

in God at that moment. I pick the coin up as a response to God; that

I do trust in Him. For a short time, at least, I cherish it as if it

were gold. I think it is God's way of starting a conversation with

me. Lucky for me, God is patient and pennies are plentiful!

When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on the sidewalk.

I

stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and

fretting in my mind about things I cannot change. I read the words,

"In God We Trust," and had to laugh. Yes, God, I get the message.

It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number of pennies in

the last few months, but then, pennies are plentiful!

And, God is patient....

Have a blessed day!!



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To: pubmom
heheh - and now you know why...she was looking for Gene Simmons.

Cheers up there PM.
101 posted on 11/10/2003 7:18:21 PM PST by lodwick (Wake up, America!)
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To: lodwick; mountaineer; Iowa Granny; Hillary's Lovely Legs; BigWaveBetty; pubmom; Timeout; ...
A walk down memory lane (our humble beginnings): Gerard Reed: Barbara Olson's Testaments [Hillary Rodham Clinton]
---snip---

The folks who should have denounced such actions--particularly the allegedly “watch-dog” journalists--followed their script and granted the Clintons latitude to follow their own ends.   Following her election as a Senator from New York in November, 2000--and before taking her oath of office--Hillary negotiated a book contract with Simon and Schuster, taking an advance of $8 million, “by far the largest such advance offered to any government official” (p. 40).  Since she was not yet, technically, in office, she avoided the Senate’s “conflict of interest” provisos that forbade such deals.  Yet her media friends, her fellow Democrats who had howled with outrage at a book deal negotiated by Newt Gingrich a few years earlier, blessed her windfall. 

                Nor did many object to President Bill Clinton’s use of his “executive power” to issue wide-ranging “executive orders” in his final days. 

The nation’s first five presidents, collectively, issued only 15 executive orders.  Following a very different political philosophy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an astronomical 3,522 edicts in 12 years.  Subsequent presidents followed suit, though with less abandon.  And Clinton found he could circumvent Congress and implement his agenda through executive orders.  Two days after he became president, for example, Clinton appeased his feminist fans by authorizing abortions on U.S. military bases.  “’Stoke of the pen, law of the land.  Kind of cool,’” said Clinton strategist Paul Begala” (p. 79). 

                Clinton’s final weeks in office witnessed “a gusher of executive orders and presidential decrees” (p. 79).  Carrying through on his commitments to environmentalists, educators, affirmative action activists, anti-tobacco crusaders, and trial lawyers, the president pursued his agenda.  He set aside lands in the West as national monuments, creating nine of them on January 17, 2001.  He tried to subject America to the International Criminal Court.  He established by fiat an  abortion rights position, defining “a child as a ‘fetus, after delivery, that has been determined to be viable.’  Thus, instead of regarding an unborn child as a human being, the Clinton rule adopted the feminist language that characterizes a child as a fetus” (p. 91). 

                On his last full day in office, he also extricated himself from his own legal dilemma:  perjury.  “On January 19, 2001 President Clinton finally conceded that he had broken the law” (p. 97), lying to a judge.  Intricate legal maneuvers, involving the president and his team of lawyers, spared him from disbarment in Arkansas.  He signed a carefully-crafted statement, accepting a five-year suspension and $25,000 fine.  Though subtly stated, the document is simply a plea bargain.  He broke the law, but he sustained only a slight spanking. 

Never forget!
102 posted on 11/11/2003 4:27:49 AM PST by Carolina
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To: mountaineer; All
More from the article:
Olson’s eyes opened while serving as the chief investigative counsel for a House committee which investigated scandals involving missing FBI files and the firing of White House Travel Office employees. Thoroughly familiar with the documentary evidence, Olson came “to know Hillary as she is--a woman who can sway millions, yet deceive herself; a woman who has persuaded herself and many others that she is ‘spiritual,’ but who has gone to the brink of criminality to amass wealth and power” (p. 2). Olson has “never experienced a cooler or more hardened operator,” a more singularly calculating public figure. Her “ambition is to make the world accept the ideas she embraced in the sanctuaries of liberation theology, radical feminism, and the hard left” (p. 3). Machiavellian to the core, she proved herself “a master manipulator of the press, the public, her staff, and--likely--even the president” (p. 3).

Reared in a prosperous, Republican home, Hillary “the Goldwater girl” slowly turned to the left, politically, as a result of her exposure to the “social gospel” in the Methodist church her family attended.


103 posted on 11/11/2003 4:35:53 AM PST by Carolina
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To: lodwick; All
WARNING! Very, very scary...more on the Hillary Witch Project...

Mia T hits this one out of the ballpark: MEMOGATE UPDATE: Answer this one question and you've nailed the traitor(s)

Click on the picture. But I warn you! Don't look at the eyes.

104 posted on 11/11/2003 4:40:16 AM PST by Carolina
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To: Carolina
Reared in a prosperous, Republican home, Hillary “the Goldwater girl” slowly turned to the left, politically, as a result of her exposure to the “social gospel” in the Methodist church her family attended.

I've heard lots of goofy things blamed on the Methodist Church, but this is a first!

Apologies to any Methodists reading this thread,,, no insults intended. I grew up in the Methodist Church, served as President of MYF, taught Sunday School and Sang in the Choir.

105 posted on 11/11/2003 4:52:54 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: Iowa Granny
I've heard lots of goofy things blamed on the Methodist Church, but this is a first!

It's always the other guy's fault when it comes to the Hillary Witch.

106 posted on 11/11/2003 4:55:52 AM PST by Carolina
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To: Carolina
It's always the other guy's fault when it comes to the Hillary Witch.

You've got that right.

107 posted on 11/11/2003 5:07:01 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: Iowa Granny
My family was always Methodist, but when the church made such a left turn in the 1960s, we started attending elsewhere.
108 posted on 11/11/2003 5:55:37 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: All
Page Six reports:

HOW desperate is presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark to appear hip to the Democratic masses? So desperate, he's put the boys of Outkast, Andre 3000 and Big Boi, into a Rock the Vote television spot. Clark's clip shows the general sitting around a table with college students and ending the discussion by saying: "I don't care what the other candidates think, I don't think Outkast is really breaking up. Big Boi and Andre 3000 just cut solo records, that's all." Then he gives one kid a high-five. A rep for Arista said: "We were shocked by this. We had no idea [Clark] was using Outkast."

_____________________
Looks like the beginning of the end for Weasley.

109 posted on 11/11/2003 6:04:36 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
CNN exposed...Ha Ha Ha!

Turns out CNN producers planted that stupid "PC vs. Mac" question at last week's debate. The student revealed it on her college newspaper website.

CNN will never "get it" that, to most Americans, "hip" is genuine-ness.

110 posted on 11/11/2003 6:32:06 AM PST by Timeout
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To: Timeout
Okay. Explain this to me...or maybe I don't want to know.


Elaine Davidson of Brazil, who holds the Guinness world record for being the woman with the greatest number of body piercings, 1903 altogether, sticks her tongue out at the Tate Modern art gallery in London, November 11, 2003. The gallery held an event on Tuesday to mark the release of the 100th millionth copy of the Guiness World Records books. REUTERS/Lee Besford

111 posted on 11/11/2003 7:12:02 AM PST by Carolina
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To: Carolina
I could deal with everything, until I noticed that finger poked thur her tongue. I am still shuddering.

What some people won't do to attract attention to themselves. It is beyond belief. I would love to read a phsycological analysis of this person. I'll be 'it' was abused as a child.
112 posted on 11/11/2003 7:29:40 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: Iowa Granny
I'll be 'it' was abused as a child.

I'll BET 'it' was abused as a child.

113 posted on 11/11/2003 7:38:27 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: Carolina
I'm trying to picture this woman, with all her piercings, going through the metal detector at the airport in Brazil as she headed off to London. Did they make her remove all of them first?
114 posted on 11/11/2003 7:44:21 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
No doubt she'll consider it a strip search.
115 posted on 11/11/2003 7:49:09 AM PST by Carolina
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To: Timeout
It's a little surprising CNN didn't plant a really important and serious question like "boxers or briefs?". As bad as the current crop of Dem contenders may be, at least none of them is a white trash bubba like Clinton.

How's this for really disgusting (leave it to a Clintonista):

A skin mag claimed yesterday it has pictures of Iraqi POW Jessica Lynch frolicking topless with male soldiers before she went off to war. A spokesman for the 20-year-old Army private - the subject of Sunday's TV movie on NBC that drew 14.9 million viewers - called the plan by Hustler magazine to publish the purported photos "unspeakable." ....

Flynt said the pictures - which he claimed to have gotten from two former soldiers who served with Lynch - would prove "she's not Joan of Arc." "I'm not interested in bashing Jessica Lynch, who really was a victim in this," Flynt insisted. But he said the Lynch book and movie "should have been an honest portrayal of her role in the war. Everyone wanted a hero from this war." .... full story

116 posted on 11/11/2003 7:53:26 AM PST by mountaineer
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It's a freak show today, from Larry Flynt to Michael Jackson:

MICHAEL JACKSON IS telling people he wants to adopt more children. The baby-dangling star — whose career was nearly derailed because of child molestation accusations — already has three children, but now he’s saying he’d like to adopt at least seven more. “I want a big family,” he recently told L.A. radio host Rick Dees. “More and more children.” In fact, he said that he’d eventually like to have more kids than his father did. There were nine siblings in the Jackson family. “It’s not like he has a specific strategy or he’s in touch with adoption agencies about this,” Jackson’s rep told the Scoop. “If indeed he did say that, he was just speaking about his love of children.” msnbc

117 posted on 11/11/2003 8:05:21 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: Carolina; Iowa Granny; All
Thank you for the posts and the linkage.

One could spend an entire day on any one of Mia's posts - links out the wazoo...

The Methodist church, fifty years ago, in no way resembles the wacked United Methodists of today, imo.

A blessed Veteran's Day to one and all here.
118 posted on 11/11/2003 8:28:07 AM PST by lodwick (Wake up, America!)
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To: mountaineer
“It’s not like he has a specific strategy or he’s in touch with adoption agencies about this,” Jackson’s rep told the Scoop. “If indeed he did say that, he was just speaking about his love of children.”

Sputter, gag, gag.

119 posted on 11/11/2003 8:35:58 AM PST by Carolina
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To: *The GUILD


R.I.P.


120 posted on 11/11/2003 8:48:08 AM PST by lodwick (Wake up, America!)
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