Mental Health Monday

Politics & Prayer...License Plates...Alaska...Joke-Stealing...Thought for Today

Political Potpourri

Politics stress me out, but I don't know if that qualifies as clinical anxiety. I have a feeling that politics stress a lot of people out. The current brouhaha over the border wall & government shutdown includes way too many bad actors. Here's a prayer that I ran across during my daily quiet time this morning. It's from "My Prayer Book" (Concordia Publishing House).

O God, I pray You also, bless & prosper the members of my faith & my friends. Give us a government which rules for the welfare of all. Protect our country, our churches, our homes, our schools, that we may work quietly & enjoy Your blessings in peace. Help us all to remember that our needs will be supplied as long as we rely on You & on Your bountiful mercy. For all things make me thankful;  in the name of Jesus. Amen.

License Plate Bingo

We're off to a good start this year. We've already identified 5 different state license plates. If we can keep up this pace, & if my math is correct, we should have all 125 states by the end of the year.

There Is No Place Like . . . Alaska

From Norfolk Daily News (1/9):  "Moose walks into Alaska hospital, finds snack. A moose wandered into a hospital building in Alaska's largest city (Anchorage) & chowed down on some plants in the lobby as workers watched the massive animal in awe."

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

* Courtesy of Reader's Digest (Dec-Jan '18-19)

• Two quotation marks walk into a "bar".
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar & absolutely destroys everything.
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A cliche' walks into a bar--fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, & sharp as a tack.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

Thought for Today

CRY FOR HELP

“Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!”  Ps. 102:2

“But in that light & face all good things are comprehended, because it is nothing else than knowing Jesus Christ. And to know Him is to know & have everything.”  Martin Luther Psalm by Psalm, Concordia Publishing House, 2017.