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Food Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

Late this morning I enjoyed a hot and delicious Lunch courtesy of my all-time favourite take-out Chinese Food joint in the neighbourhood – Shanghai.

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Here’s this week’s fortune cookie message:

– ‘Spectacular accomplishment is never preceded by less than spectacular preparation.’

I disagree somewhat with this one. You can over prepare for an event. The result can sometimes be just as bad – even worse – than a lack of sufficient preparation. Sometimes a little spontaneity can be that added touch that lifts something from standard to spectacular. Spectacular preparation is not always the key to success.

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God

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s the 1ST Sunday of November of 2009 at Life Pointe Church in beautiful Homestead Florida, and here are my takeaways:

– Daylight Saving Time is done and over with, but some didn’t get the memo.
– A lot of people showed up an hour earlier than normal.
– Some people who normally attend the 2ND service went to the 1ST service.
– Hardly nobody was fashionably late for the 2ND service.
– 34 years and 8½ months ago I celebrated my first Communion.
– This morning during the 1ST service I led Communion for the first time ever.
– I was nervous while leading it, and I stumbled a few times.
– I think I over-practiced for it in a few areas.
– The next time you see me on stage at the 1ST service I’ll be hosting it all.
– That’ll be in two weeks on the 15TH of November.
– It’ll take me the next two weeks to prepare for it.
Lead Pastor Travis J. led this week’s message.
– Jesus Christ is the Lord of our Life – and our Lifestyle.
– When a lot of us were saved by Him we suddenly got boring.
– We were once party animals, and then we became hermits.
– We should be just as jovial and outgoing today as we were yesterday.
– Everyone’s got excess baggage they don’t like to talk about.
– God heals all broken hearts and dreams.
– You’ve just got to reveal your baggage to Him so that He can heal you.
– If there’s no trust in a relationship then there’s no passion.
– If you totally trust God then you will be totally passionate towards Him.
– ‘If that doesn’t light your fire then your wood must be wet.’ – Travis quote
– It is never acceptable to degrade anyone on this journey.
– God made us exactly how He wanted us to be made.
– If you degrade one another then you are degrading God.
– Never hang your head down low in shame.
– Treasure yourself, and treasure God for creating you like so.
– I’d been personally degraded / abused many times during my previous life.
– I was told over and over again that I was nothing more than a reject.
– It happened as a little kid, as an older kid, and even as an adult.
– The degradation collectively affected who I was in this world for over 30 years.
– It shaped the man that I used to be.
– But then I was saved 38 months ago, as God pulled the dead man out of me.
– I’ve never been so alive.
– Thank You Lord Jesus for all that I have – and all that I am.
– It is all because of You !

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Saturday Night Retro

Exactly 47 years ago on Halloween of 1962 the U.S. was engulfed in the Cuban Missile Crisis with the U.S.S.R. Luckily it was drawing to a close as the Soviets began dismantling and removing their missiles in Cuba as a result of a deal struck just a few days earlier by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Meanwhile on the radio Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers had the hottest smash on the airwaves, as their “Monster Mash” was riding high atop the Billboard Hot 100. Every year since then it’s been an annual tradition on the radio to signal the arrival of Halloween.

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