I want to be honest with you. 

I’m not doing well and I don’t know why. 

I  have bouts of depression (and who can blame me, I’m in constant pain, I miss my wife, I’m lonely all the time, I have reasons) but they are usually short lived and of no significant consequence.

But, I have been stuck in a dark hole for over a week now and instead of getting better, I think I’m actually getting worse.  I texted my buddy Wheats, who at this point is about my longest friend I’m still in contact with and I told him that “I can’t seem to get motivated to be happy about anything.”  Buddy Wheats is my blood brother from long back.  He understands.  He was my roommate in Germany.  1980.  That’s over 45 years now.  

I can usually find something to be happy about.  Find something to get motivated over.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  I know I am still blessed by God and I take huge comfort in that.  I know my ministry is important and I find joy in the preparation and the enactment of that.  But in my life…it’s not there. 

I need to spend more time in prayer, I’m sure of that.  I’m just not doing that.

I counsel others in how they need to spend more time counseling with the Father and I can be honest enough with myself that I need to follow my own prescription.  

And writing is my best outlet for my feelings and my thoughts.  Sadly, I can’t just write.  I have to write TO somebody.  I have never been able to have a diary.  Never worked for me.  So, you guys get it.

Sorry about that.

So let’s move on, and I’ll let you know how it works out.

 

What a GREAT meme to start with!  Consider this in relation to my opening paragraphs…

We learned that cats make lousy pets!  Dogs don’t do that kind of crap!

Truth little buddy.  But girls are fun in other ways…when you get a bit bigger.

I’m not sure why the author of this particular meme picked out Gretchen Whitmer to call out, but there you have it.

I’m not sure if I used this video in the last episode or not…same with the next video I use, but they are funny enough that they are worth repeating.  This one is just super cute.

Ain’t that the truth…

This is from our brother Stephen B.  This is an AI generated picture of the train movements for the NYC Subway System.  Each movement is supposed to be a 3 minute time lapse.  I have no idea if it is factual or not, but it is interesting to watch.

Hence Dragon Laffs!

Take that to heart, campers.  That is a really tough lesson to learn the hard way.

Welcome to modern medicine.  If you think this isn’t done on purpose you are one of the deceived.  

That is so very true.  I didn’t realize it would last so long.

Except a lot of them aren’t.

We took a friend to dinner at a restaurant that offered free refills of nonalcoholic drinks. 

Before the main course arrived, she kept the waitress scurrying for refills. 

When our friend asked for yet another, the waitress raised an eyebrow and asked, 

“What did you have for lunch–a sponge?

When I was managing restaurants, I actually had one of my servers tell me that a customer asked to speak to the manager.  When I went to the table the customer complained to me that the waitress had been rude to him.  When I asked how, that’s exactly what he said to me!!!  Of course I said I’d take care of it.  I pulled her in the back and we laughed and laughed.

More truth.

I laughed so hard at that one!

Mrs.  Applebee, the 6th grade teacher, posed the following problem to one of her arithmetic classes: 

“A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars.  One-fifth is to go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to his butler, and the rest to charity.  Now, what does each get?” 

After a very long silence in the classroom, Little Morris raised his hand. 

The teacher called on Little Morris for his answer. 

With complete sincerity in his voice, Little Morris answered, “A lawyer!” 

Wow!  So much truth in today’s issue.

Izzy tells me the new Snow White movie is bombing really bad.  Hmmm, I wonder why?

Remember, we talked about this…the grain of sand out in the midst of the universe.

Okay, here’s the other video that I wasn’t sure if I played last episode or not…

A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years. 

One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant. 

Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. 

If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18.

She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. 

To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write “Spaghetti” on the back. He would then arrange for child support payments to begin. 


One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife.”Honey,” she said, “you received a very strange post card today.” 

Flustered, he said “Oh, just give it to me and I’ll explain it.” 

The wife obeyed, and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted. 

On the card was written: 

“Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.” 

NO DOUBT!!

In the middle of his sermon, the visiting Minster stopped, and called one of the ushers. He pointed to a man in the 5th row. “That man is sound asleep, go and wake him.” 

The usher shook his head and said, “Wake him yourself, you put him to sleep!”

Little Johnny and his family lived in the country, and as a result, they seldom had guests. Johnny was eager to help his mother after his father appeared with two dinner guests from the office. 

When the dinner was nearly over, Little Johnny went to the kitchen and proudly carried in the first piece of apple pie, giving it to his father, who passed it to a guest. Little Johnny came in with a second piece of pie and gave it to his father, who again gave it to a guest. 

This was too much for Little Johnny, who said, “It’s no use, Dad. The pieces are all the same size.”

That’s it for this one my friends.  May you all be blessed by God until we meet again.  My love to you all.