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I just saw another birthday. Permit me to share thoughts on the way to 79 . . . not room for all of them, but some. Some mine; some others.

--Why is the Bible copyrighted? Why would anybody worry about somebody stealing words from the Bible?

--Old adage: "Come ye apart, or you will come apart."

--A.W. Tozer: "A man need not be Godly to learn theology. Indeed I wonder if there is anything taught in any seminary on earth that could not be learned by the rankest criminal." Eric Hoffer said essentially the same thing: "Education does not gentle the heart."

--I read this somewhere, I AGREE! "Justice has been kidnapped and hidden in the law."

--God knows our name: (Psalms 91:14). He is a personal God; he has numbed the hairs on my head. Not a very big job for Him now . . . He can still do big jobs too.

--I hear people call the Bible "the good book." It would be better-called THE HONEST BOOK. It tells the good, bad, and ugly.

--Cowboy poets are some of the most intelligent people going. Dennis Gaines, Turkey, Texas--Cowboy poet: "Some things really don't need justification, other than the fact that they are worthwhile."

--Isaiah may give us some insight into why good people die. (Is. 57:1)

--Aristotle said youth is easily deceived because it is too anxious. What he is saying, is youth wants it NOW.

--Someone said that one hour of joy is worth an age without a name. True.

--Man is most peculiarly human when he cannot have his way. (Hoffer).

--Maybe few people know that President James A. Garfield was also a Gospel evangelist.

--Sometimes we confuse learning and wisdom. Montaigne said, "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." "I knew a man fluent in 6 languages, but bought a cow to ride." (Ben Franklin).

--There is such a thing as "fashion" in thinking. Many warped people see nothing wrong in "same-sex" marriage, including our own President . . . he recently said so. There is no such thing! You can call an airplane a frying pan, but the only time a frying pan can fly is when someone throws it at you.

--Did you know that the first twenty-two blacks elected to Congress were Republican. Lyndon Johnson fixed all that with his GREAT SOCIETY.

--Dogs don't pout much. Cats will pout at you if you correct them.

--Speaking of fashion, I notice it has become avant-garde for some to say "I'm not religious." What does that mean? Are they saying, they are an Atheist, or a Skeptic, or an Agnostic? Any of these are not a good thing to be when you die.

--If I were a technical advisor on a movie set I'd "real-ize" a lot of mistakes . . . starting with whippoorwills do not holler in the daytime. Next I would at least heat up some kind liquid plum-hot before pretending to pour coffee into a cup. You can hear cold coffee being poured 4 miles away and know it is cold coffee. It has a distinctly different sound. Also I'd have the pourer use a pot holder or a thick rag. You can't grab a tin pot of coffee off the fire barehanded . . . unless you're awful tough. Oh well, if you are too picky, you probably won't enjoy the movie as much.

--Abe Lincoln was right-on when he said: "The philosophy of the schoolroom of one generation will be the philosophy of the government of the next generation. James had a word for teachers: "My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that you shall receive a stricter judgement." (Ja. 5:31).

--When America lays in ruin, some one will write as its epitaph, "It was politically correct." So true . . . I read that somewhere.

--After all, someone said, all a man will really ever own are his own thoughts.

Kindest regards . . .