A Chuckle or Two

I like words. I keep words written by others in my journals and enjoy going through them now and then. Winter time is a good time to sit back and do a little reading. Following are some words to consider from my first journal. You may even get a chuckle or two. :)

"If some bit of gossip comes, File the thing away.
If a scandalous, spicy crumb, File the thing away.
If suspicion comes to you That your neighbor is not true
Let me tell you what to do--File the thing away.
Do this for a little while. Then go out and burn the file."
Streams in the Desert 2, Anonymous




"How wonderful at evening to be able to say,
'What a day! Lord, What a day! Because I could pray!"
P. J Wolz  (Would we all think like this!)

"Scripture makes it clear that every person has a reason for his or her existence . . .
If contentment is the ultimate goal, you should negotiate with the cows to take over their pastures. Their contentment with grazing in a grassy meadow seems to overshadow the satisfaction of most human beings with their life situations."   Dorothy Kelley Patterson, Beatitudes for Women   

"A life may be very lovely and yet be insignificant in the world's eyes. A beautiful life is one that fulfills its mission in this world, that is what God made it to be and does what God made it to do . . . But the smallest life that fills its place well is far lovelier in God's sight than the largest and most splendidly gifted--yet fails its divine mission."  Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert 


"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." Eeyore

"Few are needed to do the out-of-the-way tasks which startle the world, and one may be most useful just doing common place duties, and leaving the issue with God. And when it is all over, and our feet will run no more, and our hands are helpless, and we have scarcely strength to murmur a last payer, then we shall see that, instead of needing a larger field, we have left untilled many corners of our single acre, and that none of it is fit for our Master's eye were it not for the softening shadow of the cross." George MacDonald

A Rural Pearl: "A plump wife and a big barn never did any man harm."  (I like this one!)

"I have walked on air all day since getting your letter." Vita Sackville-West, Gift of a Letter

"As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." Joan Gussow


"It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you've been through."  Wintley Phipps


"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day;
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way;
I'm wishing at this time that I could but repay,
A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish this year, this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me."
Edgar A. Guest

"Thou takest the pen--and the lines dance . . ."  Dag Hammarskjold

I'm so thankful for words that touch our heart, spur us to action, delight our soul, bring laughter to our day and fill us with wisdom and understanding. I hope you've enjoyed some of my favorites!