USO Canteen FReeper Style~ Sunday Chapel ~ January 12 2003

USO Canteen Chaplin grantswank

[deadhead]

Excellent Dubya! I will be sharing this with friends and family. Have a nice day!

~~~Colleen~~~

[MeekOneGOP]

Hot off my e-mail...

You made it !

If You Lived as a Child in the 20's, 30's,40's, 50's, 60's or 70's.

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we've lived as long as we have...

As children, we'd ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.

We'd spend hours building our g! go-cart out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.

We'd leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

No cell phones. Unthinkable. We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight ... we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.

We didn't have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, persona! l cell phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do it?

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it'd happen, we didn't put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment...

Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade...

Horrors. Tests weren't adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS -

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Sounds pretty familiar except I never ate a worm! lol !

[Dubya]

Thanks Chap. Good to see you here each Sunday. I look forward to it.

[blackie]

Sunday Chapel ... Bump"

Let's Pray!

[Dubya]

Thanks deadhead. Its been a good day. Two ggrand daughters here right now, its snowing up a storm in Texas and we fixin to make snow ice cream. You and yours have a gooden.

Back later from the snowey fields.

[Dubya]

I love this one. Passing it on email.

[Kathy in Alaska]

"And a major credit of his present fulfillment was Greg's setting aside that one day in seven for spiritual renewal--worship, rest, spirit introspection, sharing in soul"

Thank you, Chap Grant, for today's message.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Canadian and Israeli allies (and everybody else). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 10:01am
Sunset 4:15pm

Hi 33F
Lo 22F

Mostly cloudy

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 31F
Lo 24F

State Hi 48F Metlakatla
State Lo -23F Northway

[Kathy in Alaska]

Canteen Blessing for the Troops. A staple of the day.

[Soaring Feather]

Hi Kathy!

[deadhead]

Enjoy your snow ice cream with your granddaughters, sounds like fun!

[ValerieUSA]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Afternoon, ms feather.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Click for current time
in Afghanistan

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

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Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

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(Click on praying hands above,
or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[tomkow6]

How Many Dogs Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?

Golden Retriever
The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of
us,
and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb?

Border Collie
Just one. And then I'll replace any wiring that's not up to code.

Dachshund
You know I can't reach that stupid lamp!

Rottweiler
Make me.

Lab
Oh, me, me!!!!! Pleeeeeeeeeze let me change the light bulb! Can I? Can?
Huh?
Huh? Huh? Can I?

German Shepherd
I'll change it as soon as I've led these people from the dark , checked
to
make sure I haven't missed any, and make just one more perimeter patrol
to
see that no one has tried to take advantage of the situation.

Maltese
Let the Border Collie do it. You can feed me while he's busy.

Jack Russell Terrier
I'll just pop it in while I'm bouncing off the walls and furniture.

Poodle
I'll just blow in the Border Collie's ear and he'll do it. By the time he
finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry.

Cocker Spaniel
Why change it? I can still pee on the carpet in the dark.

Doberman
While it's dark, I'm going to sleep on the couch.

Boxer
Who cares? I can still play with my squeaky toys in the dark…

Chihuahua
Yo quiero Taco Bulb

Irish Wolfhound
Can somebody else do it? I've got this hangover…

Pointer
I see it, there it is. There it is, right there….

Greyhound
It isn't moving. Who cares?

Australian Shepherd
First, I'll put all the light bulbs in a little circle…

Old English Sheep Dog
Light bulb? I'm sorry, but I don't see a light bulb?

Hound Dog
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz…z…z…z….z….z….z…

CAT
Dogs do not change light bulbs. People change light bulbs. So, the
question
is: How long will it be before I can expect light?

ALL OF WHICH PROVES, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WHILE DOGS HAVE MASTERS, CATS HAVE
STAFF….

[tomkow6]

DID YA KNOW????

A Firkin is a British measurement usually equal to a quarter barrel.
(Source: Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary)

[Pippin]

Good afternoon everybody!

Good AFTERNOON TROOPS!

[MeekOneGOP]