My Little Tiger

Hey, I think my ball went over there!

Here's how you do it, people!

Oh cool, I'm in the cart with the big guys!

Moved By The Spirit ;)

Makes me giggle every time I see it! Truly, I don't recall what she was doing when this picture was taken; clearly she had other things going on other than looking at the camera and smiling. But hey, if she was caught up on a moment of prayer and worship, who am I to disrupt?! LOL

I love this...

I know not how I may seem to others,

but to myself I am but a small child

wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge,

every now and then finding a small bright pebble

to content myself with.

-Plato

Country Club Life

We just got back yesterday from our annual trip to Arkansas to the golf tournament. It was a good trip. I have several pictures to share. Here are a few; but there are more to come. These are the bathing beauty pics. Enjoy....we did!

Petting Zoo @ School

Interrobang

Interrobang---ever heard of it? I hadn't. Just some useless trivia for those of you, like me, who had never heard of this obscure little guy.

The INTERROBANG has been described as "an obscure punctuation mark."

A SHORT HISTORY

As an advocate of precision in communication, the concept of the INTERROBANG was introduced by Martin K. Speckter in 1962 in an article written for TYPEtalks Magazine.*
The INTERROBANG was created to fill a gap in our punctuation system where writers often used typographically cumbersome and unattractive combinations of the question mark and exclamation mark to punctuate rhetorical statements where neither the question nor an exclamation alone exactly served the writer. (HOW ABOUT THAT?!)

Mr. Speckter called his mark INTERROBANG from the Latin for query and the proofreader's term for exclamation. Most dictionaries have spelled the word correctly, although several other spellings with no logical genesis have appeared.

At the time the INTERROBANG was introduced in 1962, a number of graphic designs were sent to the magazine from many sources. An example from this outpouring is shown above. Many newspapers and magazines and talk shows reported on the new mark. In an April, 1962 editorial, The Wall Street Journal deemed this punctuation exactly right for "'Who forgot to put gas in the car?' where the question mark alone just isn't adequate." The INTERROBANG can convey in print an attitude, curiosity, and wonder.

American Type Founders issued a metal typeface in 1966 called Americana which included the INTERROBANG. Remington Rand included the key as an option on its 1968 typewriters, commenting that the INTERROBANG "expresses Modern Life's Incredibility." In 1996, a New York art studio designed variations of the mark for each of the fonts in its computer library.
You can find an interrobang in Microsoft Word's Fonts. Go to Format, choose Fonts, then Wingdings 2. You'll find 4 different versions of the interrobang. Hit the ` ~ key, the ] } key, the 6 ^ key, or the - _ key.

Interesting. Isn't it?! (oooh, I should have used an interrobang there...)

Now go and express yourself! :)

What Is Love?

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.
See what you think:

'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.' Rebecca- age 8

'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy - age 4

'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.' Karl - age 5

'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6

'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' Terri - age 4

'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.' Danny - age 7

'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss' Emily - age 8

'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.' Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,' Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' Noelle - age 7

'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6

'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' Cindy - age 8

'My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.' Clare - age 6

'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.' Elaine-age 5

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.' Chris - age 7

'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.' Mary Ann - age 4
'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.' Lauren - age 4

'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image) Karen - age 7

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.' Mark - age 6

'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.' Jessica - age 8

And the final one:
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

Inspiring Dad - Loving Father

Derek Redmond ran the 400-meters in his fastest time in five years in preliminary rounds at the summer Olympic games in Barcelona. Four years earlier, in Seoul, a tendon problem had forced Derek to drop out. He had since undergone operations on both Achilles tendons.

But in the finals, as he rounded the turn into the back stretch, a sharp pain shot up his right leg. He went down, struggled to his feet and began hobbling around the track.

High in the stands, Jim Redmond saw Derek collapse, ran down onto the track and, catching up with his son, put his arm around him. "You don't have to do this."

"Yes, I do," said Derek.
"Then we'll finish together."

Defending Olympic champion Steve Lewis won the heat and headed toward the tunnel. So did the other six runners. Leaning on his Dad's right shoulder in intense pain, Derek began sobbing. An usher attempted to escort Jim off the track. But father and son continued, crossing the finish line to thundering cheers.

Redmond's race results read "AB" for abandoned. Hardly! Redmond was held up and carried across the finish line by a caring, loving father just like our Heavenly Father does.

—Ken Sutterfield, The Power of an Encouraging Word (New Leaf, 1997), quoted in Men of Integrity, Vol. 2, no. 4.

See: Matthew 7:11; Luke 15:20; Ephesians 2:4-10

Thanks Max

We fear rejection, so we follow the crowd.... For fear of standing out, we wear what everyone else wears.... For fear of not being loved, we search for love in all the wrong places. But...those saturated in God's love don't sell out to win the love of others. They don't even sell out to win the love of God.... Do you think, If I cuss less, pray more, drink less, study more...if I try harder, God will love me more? Sniff and smell Satan's stench behind those words. We all need improvement, but we don't need to woo God's love. We CHANGE because we already have God's...perfect love.

--Max Lucado (Come Thirsty)

God's perfect love drives out fear.
1 John 4:18