Dayzee's Food For The Soul

  
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♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Thu Jan 15, '09 5:06am PST 
The Movie Encyclopedia
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There are some things in life that you would never know if it
weren't for Hollywood.

A great movie – "The Family Man"
Every married man with kids should see this.

Without The Movies you wouldn't know this:

** During all police investigations, it will be necessary to
visit a strip club at least once.

** When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak
English to each other.

** If being chased through town, you can usually take cover
in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.

** All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach
up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level
on the man lying beside her.

** The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star
detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.

** All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French
Bread.

** It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is
someone to talk you down.

** The ventilation system of any building is the perfect
hiding place - no one will ever think of looking for you in
there and you can travel to any other part of the building
undetected.

** Police departments give their officers personality tests to
make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is
their polar opposite.

** The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

** All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with
large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going
to go off.

** If you need to reload your gun, you will always have
more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any
before now.

** You are very likely to survive any battle in any war
unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture
of your sweetheart back home.

** Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer,
it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German
accent will do.

** If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster
or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist
trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.

** A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his
wounds.

** When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you
take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It
will always be the exact fare.

** Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a
kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that
light instead.

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See you tomorrow.

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Fri Jan 16, '09 6:07am PST 
Worth Thinking About

A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small New York town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.

As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger... he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.

If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.

Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she was praying for the stranger to leave.)

Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home - not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother disgusted. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol. But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He tried to make cigarettes look cool and cigars manly.

He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes crude, sometimes suggestive, and always embarrassing for a Christian home.

I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... and NEVER asked to leave. As I got older, I became very confused about the conflicting values being taught in our home... And why my Dad didn't stand up for what he SAID he believed in, yet laughed right along with most of the stranger's unChristian jokes and comments.

More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He eventually visited many other families in town, and seemed to eventually blend into their homes too. My Dad passed away a while ago, and I want to think he made it to Heaven. But there's no denying the tremendous, undeniable effect the stranger had on my Dad. By the time he died, he had lowered his values so far down that my Mom said he was a totally different person than the one she married. I guess it's true that you become whatever you fill your mind with. And you know what, you can still find the stranger sitting over in a corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.


His name?....




We just called him 'TV'.

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Sat Jan 17, '09 6:52am PST 
My Best Worst Morning
The second I heard the screams, I knew my bad morning wasn’t as bad as hers
By Karen Pane
Brooklyn, New York

Everything started out wrong that winter morning. My brother, Bruce had an errand to do and was late meeting me for our drive to work. When I stepped outside to wait for him, I shivered in the cold. I dashed back into the house, threw off my jacket and grabbed my full- length leather coat. By the time Bruce and I left, we were snarled in rush-hour traffic.

I turned off the expressway only to be blocked by a sanitation truck. I threw the car into reverse. Just then we heard screams: "Help, help! My baby!"

Smoke and flames were gushing out of a fourth-floor window where a woman clutched a baby in her arms. We scrambled out of the car. Bruce ran to a fire alarm box, then raced back. "Quick," he said to me, "your coat." In an instant I took off my long leather coat and we held it between us. "Drop the baby," Bruce yelled.

The baby seemed to float gently down to us, landing right in the center of my coat. She was dressed in a pink snowsuit with her hands tucked in. She gazed up at me, then closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Soon the firemen arrived and rescued the mother. As she was rushed to the ambulance, she called out, "Where's my baby?"

"The baby's fine," I assured her.

I was very late arriving at work. Then I thought back to what had happened that morning. Bruce's errand, my change of coat, the snarled traffic, the sanitation truck... Yes, our timing was off that day, but God's timing was perfect.


♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Sat Jan 17, '09 4:49pm PST 
Baby Pigeons?
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Have you ever wondered why you don't see baby pigeons?

Have you ever wondered why pigeons spend so much time walking
when they could be flying?

Some of US spend so much time walking when we could be flying.

This is why you don't see Baby pigeons -

First of all, unlike other birds, pigeons hide their nests.
When they emerged in Asia, pigeons were cliff-dwellers. Now
they build their messy nests of sticks inside the guts of
bridges, or atop tall buildings, or on top of your air
conditioner.

Also, pigeons are very protective and babying parents. They lay
only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully. By
the time they leave the nest, the babies are almost the same
size as their parents.

That's why you don't see baby pigeons.

The parents spoil the kids by keeping them sheltered and inside
away from the world until they are almost grown.

Is it any wonder why they fly as little as possible?
Think about that the next time you see a pigeon,
a big one walking.

~A MountainWings Original~

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Mon Jan 19, '09 12:21pm PST 
Thanks
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Thanks for the help

I would like to thank those of you that have sent
encouraging words and submissions of materials
to MountainWings.com.

I would also like to thank those of you that said
you hated MountainWings.

Yes, there actually was one that said they hated
such stuff.

That gave me the full range in MountainWings that
you will experience in life.

Don't expect anything that you attempt to do to be
met with all adoration and praise.

Remember, it's the tough stuff that makes you strong.

There have been three types of responses to MountainWings.

1. Good 2. Bad 3. None

That also reflects what you get in life.

The second largest response to MountainWings has been positive.
The smallest group has been negative.

The largest group by far has said nothing.

Please don't respond to this issue, it would flood our e-mail
if everyone decided to say something now. This is just an
illustration of the way things will probably go in your life.

Most of the things in your life are neutral.
It is a blank canvas waiting for the paintbrush of your heart.
It is an empty sound waiting for your voice to fill it.

A lot of the things are great and beautiful.

A few are hateful and nasty.

Most are waiting on you to define it.

Understand that in the material world it takes an opposite to
define a thing.

You wouldn't know cold without hot.
Soft without hard
Dry without wet
Light without dark
Easy without difficult
Love without hate
Peace without war
Health without sickness
Prosperity without want
Joy without sadness

Yes, I am thankful for the one that hated MountainWings,
For that one marks the extreme of darkness
That makes the light shine brighter
It makes those of you who love it, all the more precious.

What do you want to paint today?

~A MountainWings Original~

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Tue Jan 20, '09 7:42am PST 
Extraction
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My young son had his two front teeth removed today.

It's amazing how much the lives of children parallel the lives
of adults.

Many of the same things they go through, adults go through.

The statement, "The only difference between men and boys is the
price of their toys" makes sense when you analyze the behavior
of men and boys.

My son had to go through an extraction.

His two front teeth had cavities. They had begun to hurt.

Something had to be done to ease the pain.

I talked with the dentist and he gave me two choices, fix them
or remove them.

I asked "what's the advantages and disadvantages of each?"

"If you repair the tooth and cap them, there is a 32% chance the
tooth will become infected and you will have to remove it, if
you remove it that ends it." the dentist said.

"Which is more traumatic on the child?" I asked.
"It's about the same either way," the dentist said.

Many times in life we have the same decision.

There is something rotten in our world.

We can try to fix it. That may work or it may not.

Sometimes the rotten things that we try to fix end up becoming
even more rotten and we have to remove them anyway.

We can decide to just remove them from the start and minimize
the future potential problems.

Everyone has some rotten teeth in their lives. We instantly
know which ones they are. By rotten teeth, I don't necessarily
mean teeth but things that are attached to us that have decayed
and in one form or another are causing us pain.

Those are rotten teeth.

Even when speaking about teeth, you know exactly how many bad
teeth you have don't you?

Answer the question, "How many bad teeth do you have?"




This next question about your teeth shows you the difference
between a Mountain climber and one that smacks into the
mountain.

"How many good teeth do you have?"

Huh?

I asked, "How many good teeth do you have?"

You don't know do you?

That's because the world teaches us to focus on the bad.

If you don't believe me, look at the evening news today. Count
the number of minutes devoted to bad news versus the number of
minutes devoted to good news. You will see what I mean.

That's why you don't know how many good teeth you have.

You know you are supposed to have 32 teeth but you have never
counted them for sure.

Maybe you've got a few extra teeth.
You don't know if you haven't counted them.

Stop right now and count your good teeth. . .



I'll continue the lesson on extraction tomorrow but I want you
to learn to consciously recognize the good things in your life
first, then I'll tell you the lesson of the extraction.

By the way. I have exactly 32 good teeth. Some are very crooked
but they work and they don't hurt. Some have had dental work but
they work and they don't hurt. Four have had root canals, but
they work and they don't hurt. They are good teeth but they
aren't perfect.

Count your good stuff today before the news comes on.

~A MountainWings Original~



Laugh of The Day:

Since we are in the medical field today,

A short history of medicine:

I have an earache . . .

2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.

1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.

1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this
potion.

1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.

1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this
antibiotic.

2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.


Thank you for inviting MountainWings in your mailbox.
See you tomorrow.

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Wed Jan 21, '09 6:36pm PST 
Extraction #2
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If you didn't read yesterday's MountainWings or are a new
subscriber click below to read yesterday's "Extraction."
http://www.mountainwings.com/1039.htm

Yesterday I asked you to count how many good teeth you had.

So you now know how many good teeth you have.

Did you notice something?

For the vast majority, the number of good teeth FAR outnumbers
the bad.

You have far more good teeth but it's the bad teeth that get all
of the attention. One bad tooth can cause us so much pain that
we forget about all of the good.

So it is with life.

One bad relationship and we think all men/women are bad.

One bad experience with a member of a different race. religion
or culture and we think all who are different from us are bad.

A company can have a thousand employees and we can have one bad
experience with an obnoxious employee and we think the whole
company is bad.

One bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch but it will
eventually spoil the whole bunch if you don't remove the bad
apple. Infection spreads.

Some things you have to extract to keep it from spoiling the
whole bunch.

My son had to get his two front teeth extracted to prevent
further pain and to even prevent the spread of infection to the
rest of his body.

Extraction of things in our lives is often necessary but seldom
pleasant.

He had to be sedated, strapped down, and numbed.
He still hollered.

Eagles fly high but have you ever noticed eagles don't have a
lot of stuff strapped on their backs.

Some of us haven't reached the heights that we are destined to
reach because we haven't extracted some things.
It's too much on our backs and in our spirits.

You know what things they are.

As plain as I am writing this and as clear as you can see these
letters, you know what things in your life need extracting.
We all have them.

Extraction hurts but the continuing pain of decay hurts even
worse and for much longer.

I counsel quite a few people.

More often than not, they will have major problems by the time
they schedule counseling. As I listen to their situation I can
often see things or a different perspective on the thing that
they cannot. Many are helped through counsel.

Even though I can often see things that they cannot, most of the
stuff that they need to change, THEY ALREADY KNOW!

"I know I need to do this"
"I know I need to change that"
"I know this is wrong"
"I know I shouldn't feel this way"
"I know I should leave this relationship"
"I know this is not good"

"I know I should. . . "

Many already know the things in their life that need to be
extracted.

So do you.

The problem is not the knowledge in many instances.
It's the pain of extraction.

Pulling anything with deep roots is a problem.

The closer anyone is to the child and the further they are from
maturity, the more sedation, straps and numbing they will need.
A child will even endure the pain for months or years until the
tooth eventually falls out from the decay.

Often we endure the pain far longer than necessary until it
falls out and has nearly knocked us out.

Learn the lesson of extraction.

For though we may have far more good teeth,
This is a lesson we all need to know.

MountainWings.com is about helping lift you over the mountains
of life.

Sometimes what you need is not really a lift.
You just need to remove some things.

Just as a hot air balloon is mired to the ground with sandbags
often so are we.

It's not that we don't have the wind to fly,
we've just got too many sandbags.

Some need to be extracted and then we can fly.

~A MountainWings Original~

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Fri Jan 23, '09 7:22am PST 
The More You Do
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Where do you get the time?

Someone came to my house today who receives MountainWings.

They said, "I really enjoy MountainWings but where do you get
the time to write it?"

They know that I run two businesses, President of one and
Executive V. P. of another. Both are substantial businesses and
substantial responsibilities.

I am also the pastor of a church.

I also have a family (that may be the more demanding job).

They wanted to know, "where did I get the time to write
MountainWings?"

There are two points that I want you to understand,
the first one I will explain today.

"The more you do, the more you can do."

There is an old adage that goes,
"If you want something done, give it to a busy person."

By normal logic this would seem backwards.

It would appear that if you want to get something done you
should give it to someone who has plenty of free time on their
hands, someone whose schedule is open, someone with little
responsibility and ample room for more.

That would be the normal logic.

The truth is the reverse.

If you want something done, give the job to someone who is
already doing a lot. Don't give it to someone who has a lot of
free time on their hands and is just doing enough to get by.

Let me give you some simple examples on a personal level.

Who do you find in educational classes that are beyond mandatory
or college?

Check that crowd, it will usually be those with a lot of
knowledge already.

Go to a gym in July.
Don't go at the beginning of the year, you'll mostly find the
New Year's resolution crowd that will be long gone in two
months.

Who will you find that exercises the most and the hardest?
It will usually be those who are already in shape and
NEED the exercise the least. Those who exercise the most are
able to exercise even more. Those who are sedentary, get
softer and softer and are able to do less and less.

Go to a finance seminar. I'm not talking about a multi-level
marketing get rich quick seminar but a real honest financial
seminar on how to handle, invest and make more money. Who will
you find? Generally you will find those who are already
handling their money far better than average and have far more
than average.

There is a simple spiritual principle that reads,

"To those that have they shall get more added to them. To those
that don't have, even what they seem to have will be taken away
from them." Jesus said that, not me.

I didn't say it but I understand it.

I majored in chemistry.

It's called Markonikov's law in Chemistry.

The law is about hydrogen atoms and the carbon molecules that
the unattached hydrogen atoms move to. Markonikov's law states,
"them that has gits." The free hydrogen atoms go to the carbons
that already have the most hydrogen atoms.

The world puts it this way, "the rich get richer and the poor
get poorer." It's always been and will always be that way
whether you like it or not.

You may not think it's fair but it's the way it is and will be.

The thing is, it doesn't apply just to money.
It applies to anything.

Those who have an abundance of it already have a much greater
probability of getting more than someone who doesn't have any.

Anything

You name it: love, money, sex, health, peace, confidence,
spiritual enlightenment, etc., it applies. Anything

That also holds true for the negative things.
Those who are rich in negative things get even more negative
things.

So why am I harping on that?

To simply tell you this. . . GET BUSY!!!

When you start doing more, more things will come to you.
If you only do what the average does, you will get what the
average gets. That makes sense doesn't it?

SO GET BUSY!!!

Remember, the average person never reaches the mountaintop
because you can't get to the mountaintop on average effort.

You have to get busy.

~A MountainWings Original~

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Fri Jan 23, '09 6:18pm PST 
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed
be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth
as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and
forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil. Amen.

GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU, It shall be
well with you this coming year.

No matter how much your enemies try this
year, they will not succeed.

You have been destined to make it and you
shall surely achieve all your goals this year.

For the remainder of 2009, all your
agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will
be incoming in abundance Today God has confirmed the end of
your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on
the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the
hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.

I knocked at heaven's door this morning,
God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said
,

'Father, please protect and bless the
person reading this message... '

♥- Dayzee- ♥

I got THE- power!! Jesus.
 
 
Purred: Sat Jan 24, '09 4:58am PST 
CLOSET SPACE
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Is your closet too crowded?

Perhaps the single greatest indicator of the overload that we
have in life are closets.

They are packed.

It doesn't matter how big our closets are.

Sooner or later we fill them up.

Why?

There is a closet rule of life that states:

1. Clothes expand to fill all available closet space
2. Sooner or later if you keep getting more clothes
you either have to:
A. Get more closet space
B. Get rid of some clothes

2B is what we hate to do.

But if we are TO BE what we are TO BE,
we need to learn the rule of 2B and get rid of some clothes.

Time is like closet space. We have a limited amount of it.

We keep putting more and more things in until our time is
cluttered.

The more cluttered it gets, the more things are out of place.

The time that we should be sleeping, we've got something else in
that space.

The time that we should be spending with family, we've got
something else in that space.

The time that we should have to ourselves to do whatever we do
to help our spirit, we've got something else in that space.

Even as our closet hinges strain to keep from bursting, we still
try to put more stuff in.

Take a look around your closet of time right now.

How much has accumulated
that you should have gotten rid of long ago.

They still may be good clothes, but your closet is just too full.

We have habits that we formed in our teenage years
that should have long ago been removed from our closets.

Some even have friends that should have long ago been removed,
for they no longer fit our style or destination.

As you change and grow, you should change what's in your closet.

Maybe we don't need more stuff in the closet.

Maybe we don't need a bigger closet.

Maybe we just need to clean out some stuff
and not with the purpose to make room for more stuff.

We may just need some space,

In a lot of areas,

For a lot of reasons.

There is a spiritual saying
that tells you to go into your closet to pray.

For many of us, there's simply no room.

Go look at your bedroom closet right now.
Chances are, it will reflect your closet of time.

~A MountainWings Original~

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