This and That

      After several thousand years, civilization has progressed to a point where we lock all our doors and windows every night while jungle natives sleep in open huts.

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 Your neighbor's windows look a great deal better when you wash your own.

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 Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.

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 Husband to wife:  I've just discovered oil.  

Excited wife: That's great! Now we can get a new car.  

Husband:  We'd better get the old one fixed first....that's where the oil's coming from.

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  Piano tuner:  Hello, I'm a piano tuner. I've come to tune your piano.   Lady:  But we didn't send for a piano tuner.   Piano tuner:  I know, but your neighbors did.

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It's good to have money, and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

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 LITTLE THINGS

by Gene Minix

You may think it not much........just a little word.
But it could be the very thing to turn around someone's day.
A pat on the shoulder. No big deal you think.
Might be much bigger than you could ever think. It might
make all the difference to someone needing a friend. Someone to
care and to listen can turn a day from gloom to joy.
A smile. Nothing you say..........ah, but you are wrong.
A smile can lighten a dark world. Just a small smile can be so large!

Little things........you say...........nah, LARGE.........so very large.
There are no little things when they are done in love!

A gentle word spoken, a pat on the shoulder........
time to stop and listen to someone...........

like a cooling summer rain...........can ease a heart and soothe a pain.

© Copyright 2009, by Gene Minix.
All rights reserved.
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  GOD'S GOT IT ALL UNDER CONTROL

by Gene Minix

I don't understand a lot of things

And why they happen like they do.

And I can't comprehend, so many times,

This old world we're passing through.

But one thing I do know,

And I'm sure as sure can be.

God's got it all under control

And that's all that matters to me.

Copyright 2002, by Gene Minix.

 All rights reserved.

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   Pass It Along  

  by Gene Minix  

Have you been blessed this day?

Has a kindness been shown?

Have you rejoiced to hear

The sweet robin's song?

Then don't let the day pass

And the opportunity be gone.

Just as you were blessed,

Take and pass it along.

 Others are out there

In need of a kindness shown.

You were blessed on this day,

Now take and pass it along.  

© Copyright 2005, by Gene Minix.

All rights reserved.    

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© Copyright 2010, by Gene Minix.

All rights reserved.