"Murphy's Lesser Known Laws"

This one's not my writing and is just for silliness (a high school classmate shared it on FB.) :D
  
1-Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 
2-He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 
3-Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. 
4-Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. 
5-Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. 
6-The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. 
7-If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog 
8-The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first. 
9-Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer. 
10-Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries. 
11-The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room. 
12-A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. 
13-When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. 

OK... so we know that's not all true... it just SEEMS like it!

Coping w/stresses of life

My friend, raramom06, described herself as OVERWHELMED in one of her recent blogs... That may well be the best description of the way many of us find ourselves at this point in time. I know it fits me, too.

The question this raises is how to adequately deal with this condition in which we find ourselves.  And as I ponder it, I think about Sundays... especially Sunday mornings (but also Wednesday evenings)... which seem to be the only time all the other, overwhelming STUFF is set aside... nay PUSHED aside! and aside to the point where it has virtually no influence !!!  Yes, it attempts, every so often, to push back... to re-enter the consciousness... to put itself back in the center of things.  But for those precious hours each week, all is realigned with First Things at the very Front of the Stage... all the responsibilities and cares of this world are  set aside and the focus of all that I am  settles in on the One who Loved me first.


When I leave the sanctuary of my church family/home, and get to 'feeling' as though I'm out here all alone, I've tried to allow my heart and mind to be surrounded with that same sense of Presence.  ...no question, it's not always a success... it hasn't proved the easiest thing to do under attack... although I must admit, the attacks seem less ... something.  less potent?  less powerful?  less frequent is even a possibility... 


Now if only I could keep from getting distracted :)