SONSHINE: Christmas Shopping With Joian and Jack

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I've made a list of twenty two things I would do if I ever get a chance to Christmas shop with Joian.

1. Randomly put cans of cat food in peoples carts when
they are not looking.

2. Set all the alarm clocks to go off at 10 minute
intervals

3. Make a trail of orange juice on the floor to the
restrooms

4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official
tone, "I think we have a code 3 in housewares," and see
what happens

5. Turn all the radios to a polka station, then turn them
all off and turn the volumes to 10

6. Challenge other customers to duel with tubes of gift
wrap

7. Put M&M's on layaway

8. Move "CAUTION_WET FLOOR" signs to carpet areas

9. Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others
you'll only invite them if they bring pillows from the
bedding department

10. When someone asks if they can help you, begin to cry
and ask "Why won't you people leave me alone?"

11. Look right into the security camera and use it as a
mirror while you pick your nose

12. Take up an entire aisle in toys by setting up a full
scale battlefield with G.I. Joes and X-Men

13. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon

14. While handling guns in the hunting department ask the
clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are

15. Switch signs on the men's and women's bathrooms

16. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from
"Mission Impossible"

17. Set up a "Valet Parking" sign out front

18. In the auto department practice your Madonna look
using different size funnels

19. Hide in the clothing rack and when people browse
through say "PICK ME! PICK ME!!!!!!"

20. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker
assume the fetal position an scream "NO!NO! It's
those voices again"

21. Go to the food court, get a soft drink, tell them you
don't get out much and would they put one of those
little umbrellas in it

22. Go into the fitting room and yell real loud: "Hey we're
out of toilet paper in here!"

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Joian Ruth Schroff

God is good. And Joian, more than any of us, knows this. Our sister, and my best friend, rests in the Father's bosom, today. Dear Joian's sojourn, on earth, ended early last winter, after a period of illness.

Together, Joian and myself began "SONSHINE" in "07". Last June, we took our rest from the blog.

Great battles, were waged this last year, by both Joian and myself. One was taken and one was left. Neither, the taking, nor the leaving, lacks in His perfect providence, afforded each. I can't explain, nor fully understand, how each can be perfect. Never the less, I do know, Joian understands it perfectly.

Today, Joian, more than any, knows God is good.

Jack

PS. Thoughts of your joyful rest relieve my tears, tonight. I miss you, my friend. I'll see you soon.

Great Quotes

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God, Himself. Madeleine L' Engle
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"If anything about my salvation or right standing with God depends on my faithfulness, I'm toast, damned to hell." Gavazzoni
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Any infinite Being who feels it is their duty to torture me for eternity, should switch to decaf. Joe
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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lennie Bruce
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"He took responsibility for all the evils that have befallen man that day He gave His life. This has never been adequately appreciated by religion. It needs to be appreciated." (Roy)
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"Isn't that what man always wants- a divine force he can control? That's actually the definition of witchcraft." (Florian)
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"Christianity is not about polyester and pot roast. It's about Christ and what He's doing in you and me at the moment." (Holly)
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"It's his life for ours. We die, he lives, and then the mystery is that we live again." (Joian)
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"God's Spirit, is a pure motive" (Cardinal)
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." (H. MacGregor)
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Pretty soon, everybody will get what they deserve, which is Salvation, Reconciliation, Restitution, Restoration, Immortality and Incorruption - now ain't that the coolest thing! (Keith)
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The bible is not an owners manual and trying to apply it to our lives reeks of salvation by works. (Cam)
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I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy rapture
I die every night (Novalis)
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Where shall we find an abandonment that is as comprehensive as the will of God. (Fenelon)
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He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.(description of Bro. Lawrence)
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The humility of the cross became more desirable to him than all the glory the world had to offer. (description of Bro. Lawrence)
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself upon power; it is misery seeking peace; it is unholiness embracing purity; it is hatred desiring love. Prayer is corruption panting for immortality; it is the eagle soaring heavenward; it is the dove returning home; it is the prisoner pleading for release; it is the mariner steering for the haven amid the dangerous storm; it is the soul, oppressed by the world, escaping to the empyrean, and bathing its ruffled plumes in the ethereal and the divine.(unknown)