THE FARMER AND THE COW

CAST OF CHARACTERS: Wendy, the cow with Tammy, the Farmer

FARMER: God-fearing man o’ the soil
BESSIE THE COW: Spirit-filled

AS the scene opens FARMER is approaching COW in the pasture. The cow speaks.

COW: Howdy, Farmer! Man, I sure am thirsty. Ya’ know! Like it
Says in Psalm 42:1, the deer and I are panting for water!
Can you give us a drink?

FARMER: Yes Sir! I can give you a drink. Ya’ know, Bessie, Jesus said in
John 7:37, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
Here’s ya’ water.

COW: Ya’ know! Them thar’s some powerful words about our Father,
Speaking of the King…

FARMER: The KING?!! Who said anything about Elvis??

COW: Shucks NO, Crazy! IвContinue reading “THE FARMER AND THE COW”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARB

LOOK !IT IS BARBARA’S BIRTHDAY! She is timeless and stylish! She loves God and fears Him. I have known her for a few years. I should say at least as many as her daughters and even more years than her husband. Take a look at her picture and you will see the Barbara I have always known, and the one we all love and adore.

You will also see a beautiful gift represented in her choice of gloves and dress. She truly has been gifted with the gifts of hospitality and serving and she uses them with excellence.

Happy Birthday Barbara from all your friends and family at “The Daily Lily”. We love you and you are being prayed for, sung to and blessed today in a very special way.

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Peach Cake

Peach Cake
Peaches at every road side stand and in every grocery store, I found this recipe for a different, wonderful, sweet cake that will leave your friends begging for the secret (it is the peaches rolled in flour!). So I thought I would give it to my friends at The Daily Lily. Enjoy and share.

2 cups plain flour, divided
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs, well beaten
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups fresh peaches, chopped
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Whip Cream

Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, soda, salt & cinnamon. In another bowl mix eggs, sugar and oil; beat until smooth. Add flour mixture and beat at low speed with mixer until just blended. Use remaining 1/2 cup flour to coat peaches and nuts; fold into batter. Pour batter into a 13 X 9 X 2 inch pan sprayed with Pam. Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. CoolContinue reading “Peach Cake”

Baptists are… well obese

“Weighty matter: Is religion making us fat?”

The above is the title of a very interesting article I found. Here are some excerpts from it. Purdue socialogist, Ken Ferraro conclusion is the acceptable vice in Christian circles is eating.

“So it’s not surprising that Ferraro’s latest study found that about 27 percent of Baptists, including Southern Baptists, North American Baptists, and Fundamentalist Baptist, were obese

Ferraro’s study also found that about 20 percent of “Fundamentalist Protestants,” (Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God and Church of God); about 18 percent of “Pietistic Protestants,” (Methodist, Christian Church and African Methodist Episcopal), and about 17 percent of Catholics were obese.

By contrast, about 1 percent of the Jewish population and less than 1 percent of other non-Christians, including Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and others), were Continue reading “Baptists are… well obese”

“Shut Your Trap”

I have heard that derogatory command before, “shut your trap!”. It sounds irreverent or disrespecful, to say the least, and we are taken aback by the harshness of that remark. However, today in church I reached a new understanding and got to see that questionable phrase in a new, revealing light.
In Sara’s teachings, today, she admonished us to watch what we say because our WORDS are often that which cut off the blessings and negate that which we have prayed, hoped and believed for so vigorously. And then she said, “SHUT YOUR TRAP” WELL!!!! “Do you know what your “trap ” is?” she challenged. And suddenly I saw it. Of course! Your “trap” is your mouth. When you tell someone in the vernacular to “shut their trap” you mean to say.,…. “shut up or shut your mouth.” But in the Spirit it has a much greater significance and is of greatest “life or death proportions, that isContinue reading ““Shut Your Trap””

Ode to Geriatrics

We got Geriatrics in the city,
Geriatrics in our homes,
Geriatrics in the country
Geriatrics living alone.

I’ve got geriatric plants in my geriatric greenhouse
And geriatric books on my geriatric shelves.
Geriatric dust on my geriatric furniture
And geriatric money in the geriatric bank.

I’ve got a geriatric dog
Who needs a geriatric to walk him.
There’s a geriatric tape playing
In my geriatric taper player.
And a geriatric pile of bills
That long have been a’waiting.

I gave a geriatric monologue at a business meeting today;
After I spent four hours looking for an article that I had forgotten
where I stored it away.

My geriatric ‘moment’ has turned into a geriatric day.
My ‘juvenile’ aquaintances no longer ask me to play.
Now geriatric’s not a curseword if it’s used in a way that’s
kind.
It becomes one when it grows into a tree that overtakes my mind.

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A Day in Church

I was so blessed to be in the Lord’s house yesterday, Sunday! I heard a great
message from God’s Word. The Minister/Preacher said that he remembers a
preacher saying…”sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you
longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay”.

He spoke about sin and how we can have “regret for sin”, “remorse for sin”, and
or “repentance for sin”. He used the example of Judus only having regret and
remorse for betraying Jesus, because he commited suicide. He than spoke
about Peter having regret, remorse, and repentance, for denying Jesus,
because repentance means you make a change. “Peter weeped bitterly”, God’s
Word says.He continued to use David as an example in Psalm 51. You can read
this scripture and know that David truly had a repentant heart, for his sin
with Bethsheba.

The minister/preacher stated thContinue reading “A Day in Church”

Prayer Request

I receive many prayer request and seemly I am receiving more and more letters with issues like this letter.

I would like to ask each of you for your comments and ways to pray and answer this type of letter. And, of course if you feel lead to pray for this young Christian Lady and her Mom which is also a Christian. I understand they both attend church regularly.

Then we have the issue of ‘friend’ in the letter, also a Christian Mom with grown children and grandchildren. The man I understand she has not even met yet. Just telephone communicaton. As you will read neither man claims to be a Christian.

” Keep my Mother in prayer concerning her blood sugar. It’s high and the doctors say she might have (Diabetes). But I rebuke that in Jesus’ Name.

My man and I have given Mom a new nick-name…”Big Bad Mama”. She’s never scared of anContinue reading “Prayer Request”

Carpe Diem

In our world today we fill our day with a multitude of activities. From the moment our feet hit the floor until we collapse into bed at night we are saturated with activities. Even at night, our sleep may be restless from the ideas that seem not to want to shut off. Carpe Diem we think. That is what we did, we seized the day for all its worth. Is that what Carpe Diem is all about in God’s sight or have we played the fool?

Have we worked so hard that no creativity can enter in? Have we worked so hard that we have shoved God aside? Have we been so busy with the things of the world that we have forgotten that God is with us all the time.

In the ’06 Retreat we studied Genesis 28: 10-22. In that scripture Jacob lays his head down after a full day and dreams of a ladder from earth to heaven. God speaks to him about the awesome promise to him and that he will Continue reading “Carpe Diem”

Heart and Mouth

I discovered that the Message Bible states in Matthew 12:34, that Jesus says, “It’s your heart and not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words.”

This makes a VERY enlightening point that sheds new perspective on our discussions of “heart and mouth” on thedailylily. I am thinking that from this Scripture….that whatever you MAY THINK that you are thinking in your MIND and trying to say or (THINK that you are saying)..actually..what REALLY ,TRULY is coming out of your mouth is what your HEART, REALLY, TRULY thinks.

So when we examine the fruit of our lips….what we’re saying that is exaggeration, or flattery, or put downs or mockings or bragging or complaining or deception or self- deceiving …and we see the bitter fruit it produces..we must quickly turn to look at our own hearts to find the root of what is causing this rotten harvest and “lay the axe to it.”Continue reading “Heart and Mouth”