Beautiful-puppet

Storms a comin, be prepared" muttered Old Tom sitting in his easy chair and rubbing his knee. "Knee hasn't ached this bad in a long time." Thinking about his knee brought back memories of when he was injured nearly 60 years ago: "I guess I was a lucky one considering how many thousands of men died that summer from idiot generals ordering yet another round of fool's rushes out of the trenches and into a barrage of machine gun fire" he thought still rubbing his knee. Old Tom lost three of his closest friends that year. He met Lefty, Red, and Frank during basic training at camp Davidson in Georgia two years earlier, where the three dubbed him "O

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm. When the storms of life come upon us - and all of us will experience them - we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God. The storms do not have to overcome us. We can allow God's po

"Come," said the Wind to the Leaves one day. "Come over the meadow and we will play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. For summer is gone and the days grow cold."