Hammer and Nail

James 1:2-3

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."

Think, Plan before you act...

An unexamined actions can leave you in isolation. - H.O.

The Guardrail

Seeking A Rich Husband

 This might be the best thing I’ve seen in a while:

A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here.
I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.
You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.
My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?
I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?
Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.
If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.
I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty

A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:

Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.
My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty" and “money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.
Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position".
If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased".
Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps.

signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO

Friend

I have an acronym about the word that describe what true friends  are. The word is SPARE


S - Stays

P - Protects

A- Accepts

R- Rebukes

E-Encourages

That's how friendship is...

LOST

LOST..

I suppose to attend a friends church event..without clear instruction of the way to the venue, just heard a name of the subdivision, just head on to the expected venue, when i got there..no big crowd, no sound system..no people that i know..no church event..texted somebody and waited for instruction..but no reply...then decided to go home...

lesson..

It will cost your money..it will cost your time..it will cost your energy...sometimes it will cost life..without proper  guidance and instruction..

Divine instruction is very important...without it..

You will be lost..

Overcomer!!!

                                                OVERCOMER!!!

While im doing my paper work in my computer, our kitten caught my attention,… she was playing, pushing, scratching the carton robot (school project of my youngest) like a picture of David and Goliath, fighting to the end with full of courage in spite of skill and size deficiency. Sometimes we are confronted with problems, mountainous problem, a gigantic opponents or difficulties, but we will not loose hope because we are an over comer, declared not by people but by God’s Word.

 Overcomer!!!
"You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world." 1 Jn 4:4

Kindness Remembered

There is a quotation that says, "what you sow is what you reap." This video talks about kindness, mercy that was sown in the past, and remembered in the present. May this video clip inspire us to do, to sow good things whether we receive the result of  our kindness or not, the important is we do the right thing to do in helping other people.

Another Inspiring Story




A poor boy was selling goods from one door to another to pay for his studies. One day he found that he had only one dime left, and he was hungry. While approaching the next house, he decided to ask for a meal.

But when a young woman has opened the door, he only dared to ask for a glass of water. She looked at him and understood, that probably the boy is hungry. So she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it and then asked, how much did he owe her. The woman replied: „You don‘t own me anything. Mother taught us never to accept pay for a kindness“. „Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart“, – he said and felt that now is stronger not only physically, but his faith in God has grown as well. The boy‘s name was Howard Kelly.

Many year have passed. One day that woman became seriously ill. Local doctors could not help her, therefore they sent her to a big city, where her rare disease would be studied by specialists. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he entered her room in the hospital, he immediately recognized the woman, that showed kindness to him, when he was poor. The doctor was determined to do his best to help her recover from her disease.

The struggle was long, but together they managed to overcome her illness. After some time the woman received a bill for her treatment. She was worried that the amount to pay would be so significant, that it would take the rest of her life to pay for it. Finally, when the woman looked at the bill, she noticed words that were written on the side of the bill. The words were: „Paid in full with a glass of milk“.

What If...A Thought About Worrying

What If...A Thought About Worrying
 

19 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”
3 Elijah was afraid[a] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

Worry is an unknown fear,........too much calculation of the damage effect that can bring to your life...it exaggerates thoughts that makes ourselves unhappy and upset..Most of our worries are more likely will never come true and it worsen our situation. Elijah was a great prophet of God, miracles and powerful fire that consumes offerings that proves God's omnipotent through his prayer that showed in the very eyes of the prophet of Baal that there is only true God that must be believed and worshiped. But in one threat of a woman, an evil woman...makes Elijah helpless and hopeless, the courage and faith of a great prophet melted by a nonsense word of a woman. Elijah ran for his life and asked God to end it...

Overwhelmed by fear, his thought were being occupied by worry and anxiety that resulted in forgetting who is in his side, forgetting who God is, forgetting what God had done in the past, what God can do in his situation in the present. Focusing in the threat not in trusting God, Focusing in the problem, not in the powerful God, focusing in running for his life rather than praying and trusting God.

I remember an old song, a hymn

Count Your Blessing

When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings. Wealth can never buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

When worry attack...Count your Blessing.
Instead of worrying.. Pray and Trust God..
He is in your side.