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I like desserts as well as the next person but boy do our daughters know how it's done:P

Tonight our Miss Sarah made her delicious fresh strawberry shortcake! Yum! She makes her own homemade sweetbread shortcakes and makes a nice syrup on the strawberries with just a bit of sugar stirred in on them and serves it with a nice portion of whipped topping!

Having that on a fresh, warm shortcake is so yummy! I always eat too much of it and always want more:P I'm also allergic to strawberries so I make sure I take my benedryl a half hour before she serves it:P Our Miss Mary-Ann is also allergic and she follows suit. No sense in letting that go to waste:P Some things are simply worth a few hives:)

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Daily Devotion 136

May 15

Contagious Attitudes

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

Psalm 35:18

Have you ever noticed how yawns are contagious? One person yawns, then another, and soon, several people are yawning. In our Bible reading today, ten men spread a negative attitude to several million. This contagious bad attitude caused the children of Israel to wander in the wilderness forty years.

We need to be careful not to harbor wrong or negative attitudes in our hearts, because these attitudes will soon spread to our brethren if we are not careful!

The good news is that good, positive attitudes are also contagious. Instead of having negative attitudes, we can spread good will to others. If someone around us has a happy, positive attitude, we are likely to catch the enthusiasm too. Likewise, if we are joyful and positive, those around us will also rejoice.

Take cheer! Like David, let us purpose in our hearts to thank and praise God among many people, so they will catch the attitude and spread it on to those around them. We should take time to praise God. If we do, our joy will overflow, and others will also become joyful.

If you are plagued by a negative “virus,” keep up your cheer and you may be able to stop that “virus” and start a good attitude going around. Joshua and Caleb were far outnumbered, but they did not give up. They rent their clothes and prayed. When a negative attitude is going around, pray for help and guidance to keep on spreading your little bit of joy. It may catch hold and spread!

Douglas Kauffman, Falkville, AL

Brighten the corner where you are . . .

it may brighten the whole room!

Bible Reading: Numbers 13:25–33; 14:1–10

One Year Bible Reading Plan:

John 5:25–47

2 Kings 12–14

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Daily Devotion 135

May 14

Hidden Wives

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Proverbs 28:13

The following story appeared in the editorial column of our local weekly newspaper.

“Some years ago, the most married man in the world was found in Yugoslavia. It happened this way: A young woman confided to her girl cousin that she was soon going to be married. She told her cousin that the bridegroom was so shy and timid he wanted to keep the marriage a secret. The cousin became curious. She got a glimpse of the bridegroom after the secret wedding and recognized him as her own husband! He had also married her secretly, claiming to be shy and timid.

That was only the beginning. A total of fifty women came forward and claimed that the same man had married each of them. In each case, he was the same bashful bridegroom. They called him Ivanhoe, the Terrible, breaker of women’s hearts. He was a traveling salesman and went from wife to wife by plane. He supported

all fifty of them, and told each that his duties as a traveling salesman kept him away much of the time.

They put him in jail, and he begged to stay there. He would rather be in prison than face those fifty wives.”

While we may not be hiding fifty wives, there may be other things we try to hide from others (and God)—things that we are ashamed of, or that we know to be wrong. If it were possible for this man to hide fifty wives from each other, at least for awhile, how easy is it for us to hide some sin in our lives?

Let us remember that though we may be able to hidesin from our brothers and sisters, we cannot hide it from God.

Matthew Hochstetler, Leo, IN

For some, conscience is the fear of being found out.

Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 3

One Year Bible Reading Plan:

John 5:1–24

2 Kings 9—11

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He's Outta Here!

Have you ever had moments when something or someone has gotten on your nerves for the very last time? I mean, you have tried and tried. The more you try the harder it is to let things go and finally one day the moment comes and you just slip a cog and break down with "That's IT, he's outta here!" And mean it? Well........

Yesterday, we had let our miniature stallion out into the large pen to run off some energy. The weather was great so why not? He's a fiesty, sassy little thing and though he can have his cute moments, he also has his studditude moments.

Anyway, later in the afternoon, after visiting with CaraDD and her children, they left, taking our Miss Mary-Ann with them for the night. This left the evening animal choring to Miss Sarah and I.

We got our act together and started out to get the animals back in their rightful places and do a little clean-up when Miss Sarah notices that Mr. Smith is gone. Vanished...again! Ugh. This sends that familiar irritation straight through me. You remember that he ran off the day after we moved here sending us all into search mode for two days? Well, this was just it.

We got the bucket of grain and a leadrope and took off to where he had gone before, figuring he would go that direction. He wasn't over there so we headed back home expecting to either find him or know about him by morning. Suddenly Miss Sarah says..."THERE HE IS!" We turn the car around (not easy to do in the middle of the street with a huge Excursion:P) and pull into this little treed lot where, sure enough, there he is prancing and throwing his little head. We get out and approach him with the bucket which he runs over for and Miss Sarah clips the leadrope on. He freaks! I've never seen him like this...EVER!

He jerks away and runs back to the fence line and there, lo and behold is a pretty mare (4 times his size!) catty corner to us. We realize we have a situation and try to force him to come with us. At this point her goes crazy on us. He's snorting, kicking, biting, rearing, pawing at us trying to hurt anyone that got near him.

Now, mind you, he's not even 3 feet tall! Sarah tries to hang on to him while trying to keep out of his way so he can't hurt her. He was trying to stomp on her legs and feet and she kept moving out of his way. I had ahold of one side of his halter and she on the other when he twists his head and I lost my hold. He rears up and almost slams her on the head with his front feet. She moves her head a little (thank you Jesus!) and he misses her head and hits her arm. He does this several times before she couldn't hold him anymore and let go.

I tell her to stay put and just don't let him go anywhere and I drive back to the house and grab to long lungelines. I get back to her and we trapped him with one of the lines agains the fence so we can hook the other line on his halter. Getting two of the lines finally on him we pull out as far as we can to make sure that he can't get to either one of us and we walk him to the back of my car.

Miss Sarah climbs in through the back and ties him off to the window post inside the back of the car keeping him as close to the bumper as possible without hurting him or giving him enough room to hurt himself on the bumper or rope. I start driving going about 3mph and he trots along behind, protesting and crying out all the way.

Now mind you it was probably as far as a whole cityblock to the house so he wasn't led like this for long. I wasn't going to wrestle him through the yard so I drove all the way to his stall. He was so tired from that jaunt that his little legs were just shaking. I though maybe he would be a little humble but noooooooooooo, he fought us all the way into his stall (all of 10 feet). We got him locked up and he's been crying and kicking the barn wall all night! He's still at it this morning! ugh!

I have to say that I have only experience that two other times with a stallion and those were history too! Miss Mary-Ann is sad about it but she understands that we just can't have a dangerous animal hanging around here. Not only that but realistically he's a lawn ornament. If I am going to have a lawn ornament it needs to at least be cuddly!

Well, that's my rant for this morning. Now to advertise him in the local paper:) Perhaps some local breeder will want him for a teaser:) He can be awful sweet but he is, after all, a stud and it's time for him to do his studly thing in a place that can accomodate him.

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