Tag Archives: Joy Jar

The 04/22/13 Joy Jar

21 Apr

You know people lived before microwave ovens were invented. They ate real food and waited a long time for it to be done until they ate it. There are cook books which tell one how to cook EVERYTHING in a microwave including a turkey. All moi knows is whatever it is, you can heat it up quicker and eat sooner. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar is the microwave oven.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking

The New Age? It’s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
James Randi

I hate when the microwave decides to heat my plate, but not my food.

Unknown

I like to accomplish things before the microwave beeps.

Brandi Issacs

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: “THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR microwave.” Loosely translated, this means, “You’re on your own, Bernice.”

Erma Bombeck

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
Tracy Morgan

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The 04/21/13 Joy Jar

21 Apr

 

Even though April showers bring May flowers, April is still cool in Seattle amd one needs a coat. A raincoat fills the bill nicely. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s raincoat.

Raincoats are not invented to stay indoors.

Loesje

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Barbara Tuchman

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized”

Oscar Wilde

“I’m an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat”

Harold Wilson

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The 04/20/13 Joy Jar

19 Apr

Like many, has been watching the events in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Terror Bombing. She has been switching back and forth between channels using her remote. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the television remote.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Aaron Brown

If life had a remote control, I would:

PAUSE the beautiful moments
REWIND my mistakes.
FASTFORWARD through the heartbreak
STOP the drama.
PLAY the rest.

Unknown

Don’t let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You own the remote control. All you have to do is change the channel.

Unknown

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Julie Garwood

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The 04/19/13 Joy Jar

18 Apr

The Boston Marathon Terrorist event is still fresh in the memory and tonight a police officer at MIT was killed. Despite the turmoil of the world, moi is trying to cultivate a sense of calm no matter what is going on in the world, Today’s deposit into the Joy Jar is a sense of calm.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

Calm can solve all issues.
Pope Shenouda III

“A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.”

Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
Tony Dungy

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The 04/18/13 Joy Jar

17 Apr

 

Almost every day moi uses a fork. It is one of those things that one takes for granted. For some reason, moi stopped to look at a fork today and thought-this makes eating so much easier for moi. Other cultures may have different eating implements, but moi is comfortable with a fork. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a fork.

“Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.”

Will Rodgers

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?”

Stanislaw Lee

“Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

Emily Post

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork

Oscar Wilde”

“NAKED Lunch — a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.”

William S. Burroughs

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The 04/17/13 Joy Jar

16 Apr

 

Every Tuesday moi goes to a prayer group which meets at 6:30 a.m. She has been going for several weeks. Maybe she hasn’t gotten better, but she hasn’t gotten worse and that is a good think. It is good to be part of a community and to know the healing power of prayer. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the healing power of prayer.

Wherever pragmatism exits in the church, there is always a corresponding de-emphasis on Christ’s sufficiency, God’s sovereignty, biblical integrity, the power of prayer, and Spirit-led ministries. The result is a man-centered ministry that attempts to accomplish divine purposes by superficial programs and human methodology rather than by the Word or the power of the Spirit.

John MacArthur

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle.  There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard J. Needham

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing – nothing.

Saint Francis of Assisi

“Give us this day our daily bread” is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

P.J. Wingate

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. 

Guy H. King

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Philip Melanchthen

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige, 1974

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The 04/16/13 Joy Jar

15 Apr

 

 

Today there was much sadness about as another manifestation of the evil which lies in the souls of some people erupted into deadly violence at the Boston Marathon. Perhaps, it was the walk mid-day which was a daily ritual and which exposes moi to the bits of nature that the city dweller grabs. There are buds on the trees and that signals renewal except in the souls that are so evil renewal is not possible. But, for most of us with souls capable of renewal and life, the buds are a welcoming sight. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are the buds of Spring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.”

 

William Carlos Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.”
William Blake, 1799, The Letters

 

 

 

 

“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” ”
Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

 

“The groves were God’s first temples.”
William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn

 

 

 

 

 

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

“Here and there you’d see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.”

 

Carolyn Hunter

 

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The 04/15/13 Joy Jar

14 Apr

Everyone thought we had settled into a predictable Seattle weather pattern of showers and drizzle. Just as one was ready to settle in, Mother Nature had a delicious surprise. A sun break. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is unexpected sunshine.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Even on a cloudy day the sun is shining somewhere!
Unknown

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Henry Ward Beecher

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Matthew Barrie

Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

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The 03/14/13 Joy Jar

13 Apr

One of moi’s favorite television programs is ‘The Voice’ which is a reality show where contestants compete using only their voice before four celebrity judges who have their back to the contestants. The goal is to get at least one judge to turn around. Since the judges do not know what the contestant looks like, all they have upon which to make a judgment is the voice of the contestant. Voice is not only the vocal sound, but perspective, and the outlook of the contestant and that comes through in the performance. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s voice.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.
Anthony Hamilton

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The 04/13/13 Joy Jar

12 Apr

 

Today was simply a kick back day. There was nothing in particular on the agenda except to enjoy the day and evening. Tonight, watching the tube and eating cheese and crackers and drinking a beer. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is ice cold beer.

 

 

 

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

 

 

 

 

 

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn’t know me. They wouldn’t drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn’t come down.
Ethel Waters

 

 

 

 

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

 

 

 

 

“Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Ray Bradbury, The October Country

 

 

 

 

 

“I don’t think I’ve drunk enough beer to understand that.”
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

 

 

 

 

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin

 

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