Month: December 2019

It’s a brand new year!  I wonder what 2020 has in store?  One thing I know for sure, change will be involved.  Every life is full of change.  Like the seasons of the year nothing stays the same for long because life moves so fast.  Sometimes we fail to enjoy the present in anticipation of the future and then we look back longingly to yesteryear.  My dad has a sign hanging in his office that reads:  “These are the good old days.” Yes indeed they are.

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400 that carried over no balance from day to day, and allowed you to keep no cash, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do?  You would draw out every cent, every day, of course, and use it to your advantage.  Well, you have such an account, and its name is TIME.  Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.  Every night it rules off as lost whatever you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balances, it allows no overdrafts.  Each day it opens a new account with you.  If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.  There is no going back.  There is no drawing against tomorrow.

An elderly widow decided it was too much trouble to get all of her kids and grandkids’ Christmas presents, so she decided to send them a check with a card.  A few days after she mailed all the cards, she discovered she forgot to include the checks in the cards.  Imagine all those kids opening a card from grandma with a note inside that says, “Buy your own presents.”

Recently, I was reading an article that said all the traditional Christmas movies have the real meaning of Christmas veiled in the story lines, except for A Charlie Brown Christmas, the animated 1965 special where they come right out and say what Christmas is.

Ready or not, Christmas is upon us. It came fast this year.

I have a friend who vacations in Jamaica at Christmas time. One year he told the Jamaicans it was 20 below back in Wisconsin. Their reply: “Below what?”

Speaking of cold – Last Sunday we had five people get baptized at our church. I had filled the baptism tank the night before and turned the heater on “high”. The next morning when I arrived at church, the water was a little on the warm side so I turned the heater off expecting it to cool down by the time the service began. But when it came time for the baptism, the water was still a little too hot, so we added some ice to it. The people waiting to be baptized were in another room when they saw me putting ice in the tank and thought they were going to get baptized in ice water. They were relieved when the time came, to step into warm water. That would have been an eye opening experience.

Fellowship of Christian Farmers By Kevin Cernek December 1, 2019   Separation anxiety.   Some of the most interesting people one could ever meet are at the airport.   Several years ago, my wife and I were flying out of Madison, Wisconsin.  On the day of our flight, as we stood at the ticket counter […]