Net Miles Of Smiles

His Love is sufficient to keep me
Wherever I may be,
It’s everlasting without measure
What a wonderful treasure.

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His Love is unconditional
Though life’s way becomes dismal,
What assurance of glory divine
Surely, my Lord is mine.

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His Love surround me always
Until the end of my days,
I am a child of the King
By His blood I’m free from sin.

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His Love is abundant for you and me
The entire universe across celestial seas,
Reflected in His wondrous creation
How marvelous to gaze at its constellation.

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His Love is an instrument of peace
Necessary for wars to cease,
Protecting us from imminent evil
Shielding us against the wiles of the devil.

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Let’s appreciate God’s Love
Richly showered upon us from above,
We are joint heirs with Him
Praise God, His Love is a wonderful thing.

(c) Marvelous

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“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will
also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously
will also reap generously.” 2 Corinthians 9:6

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Author Unknown

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package “What food might this contain?” The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you but it is of no consequence to me.

I cannot be bothered by it.” The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.

Be assured you are in my prayers.” The mouse turned to the cow and said, “There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The cow said, “Wow, Mr. Mouse.

I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.”

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap– alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house — like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever..

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient.

But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember —

When o­ne of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life.

We must keep an eye out for o­ne another and make an extra effort to encourage o­ne another.

REMEMBER:

EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON’S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

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Greatness is too often defined by an unusual act of courage or a life
of extraordinary merit or virtue. But glimpses of greatness can be
seen all around us, and especially in those who genuinely care for
others.

Father Albert Braun was such a man. After his ordination, he
requested to live amongst some of the poorest of the world’s poor. He
was sent to the Mescalero Apache reservation in south central New
Mexico (USA). Father Braun learned to love the Apache. And as he
lived with them, he learned from them and they learned from him. They
became family.

He stayed many years on the reservation but left it twice to serve as
a chaplain during both World Wars. He almost died in World War II
when his Allied forces tried to defend the Philip-pine Islands from
attack. Many of his comrades died during the fighting and Father
Braun risked his own life to comfort the wounded and give the dying
Last Rites. He was forced to march with no food and little water.
Along the way, many more of the men died. And in the prisoner of war
camps, more lives yet were lost to disease, cruel physical treatment
and malnutrition.

Father Braun had learned much from the Apache about surviving off the
land. When he went out on work detail, he found fruit and edible
vegetables that he smuggled back into the camp to help supplement the
men’s diets. Once he acquired the vaccine for diphtheria that he also
secreted into camp, but it wasn’t enough. They drew lots to determine
who would get the medicine. Though afflicted himself, he gave his
portion to a young soldier. Before long, he suffered simultaneously
from diphtheria, malaria, dysentery and beriberi.

He barely survived the war. Later, he asked to be returned to New
Mexico to live once again with the Apache. When he knew that his own
death was near, Father Braun requested to be buried on the
reservation, surrounded by his Apache “family.”

Today, at the church of St. Joseph, one can see portraits of the
Apache’s greatest chiefs and warriors. There is a portrait of
Geronimo, one of Cochise, a picture of Victorio and a portrait of
Father Albert Braun, who came to live among them as a true friend.

Father Braun showed a certain greatness, not by any one heroic deed,
but by the sum total of a life of caring. I believe we can catch
glimpses of greatness in the lives of anybody who genuinely cares.

– Steve Goodier
LifeSupportSystem.com

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You need to know these Computer Symbols (They’re not the ones we normally use)

We all know those cute little computer symbols called ‘emoticons,’ where:

means a smile and

is a frown.

Sometimes these are represented by

Well, how about some’ASSICONS?’
Here goes:

(_!_) a regular ass

(__!__) a fat ass

(!) a tight ass

(_*_) a sore ass

{_!_} a swishy ass

(_o_) an ass that’s been around
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(_x_) kiss my ass

(_X_) leave my ass alone

(_zzz_) a tired ass

(_E=mc2_) a smart ass

(_$_) Money coming out of his ass

(_?_) Dumb Ass

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You have just been e-mooned!

Send this to 5 people within the next hour and you will be blessed
with people laughing at your e-mail.

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This is NOT a chain letter, so if you don’t mail it out, you won’t have bad luck.

But who wouldn’t want to e-Moon a friend?

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The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.

Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota .

There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, John McCain returned to the starting line and he had 10 fish.

Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another ‘bad

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