Wednesdays Gt of Life

Good Morning Friends,

I hope this message finds you well rested and ready for the many opportunities before you today. The story I have shared this morning reminds us to look around and realize that sometimes life has a way of taking our eyes off the many blessings we have and see each day. What are the Blessings your most Grateful for? I ask this question to remind You of all you are truly Blessed with. Life is very short and none of us know the length of our time on this earth. So make sure to do the things that make your soul smile. So take trip, eat that cake, dance like no ones watching or whatever it is that brings a smile to your Heart!?

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?Life is a gift. Wake up everyday and realize that.

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Familiar But Often Taken For Granted

Are you familiar with what some people call the Seven Wonders of the World? Many of you will be able to rhyme them off, while others will be able to remember only a few.

Among these are the following: Egypt's Great Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon, Panama Canal, Empire State Building, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Great Wall of China. Now, other people might also include the Great Barrier Reef and a few others. So, what is the significance of these? Are there more that should be added to the list?

There are a number of wonders that we see everyday but really do not attribute them to be wonders at all. These wonders are only more obvious to those people who may not have them, or only have a few.

Some of us have lost one of these wonders, and some of us have gotten it back. Others once lost, will usually never be obtained again.

One of these wonders is the?ability?to see. For those of us fortunate enough to see all that lies before us, the morning sun rise, the moon in the night sky, the vibrant colors of many birds, or the sparkle in the eyes of our children, think of those who would happily trade places with you so they could experience this wonder of life.

And, let's add to this list and include the wonderment of touch, taste, laugh and love. If we were to lose any of these wonders, would we now think differently about the wonders of the world?

Imagine a world where you lost some of all of these abilities. For what we have we are often ungrateful or take for granted. We can also add the wonder of freedom to live in a country and society that has as one of its main tenets freedom of speech, freedom to vote in a democratic process, freedom to practice your religion, or the freedom of movement from area to area.

In the upcoming election in Canada, or for that matter, elections in any democracy, the expected voter turn out, given the past several elections, is predicted to be fall well below seventy percent. One has to wonder whether voter apathy is higher among our young people who have never had to experience hardships felt by so many of the older voter. Or, maybe it is simply a matter that they do not feel their voice would make a difference. Are these words of the right to vote taken for granted? Where is the wisdom in failing to exercise a freedom that affects our internal and world relationships?

We do not have to look very hard to see countries in the world where people are speaking with their lives to secure the right to freedom, the right to live in a country where there is no tyrannical leader or dictator.

When someone asks you what the wonders of world are, how will you respond?

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Wednesday's Laugh...

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Next Time You Have a Bad Day, Remember these people

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The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil

spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most

expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers

and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten

by a killer whale.

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A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a

carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.

After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly

with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.

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In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world

flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came down eight

hours short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his

girlfriend had left him, and his phone and electricity had been

cut off.

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A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking

frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards

the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she

whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm

in two places. Till that moment he had been happily listening to

his walkman.

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Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of

sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs,

all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and

stampeded, trampling the two protestors to death.

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And the capper.....

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Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a

letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it.

Forgetting it was a bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

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SOOOOO,.....have a nice day!

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