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for your interesting/humorous/helpful comments below about a Retrieve button invention for email.
While compiling it, though, I was struck by the parallel between sending out an email when, for various reasons, I shouldn't, and speaking when I ought not to speak. Isn't it the same problem?
I say things when I was not through thinking.
I say things before running them by my proofreader for truthfulness.
I say things without analyzing the motive behind it.
I say things, forgetting they have no expiration date, and people who I wish would not remember them, do.
And there is no Retrieval button to reach out into the air, grab my thoughtless words by the throat, and consign them to the "Never Happened" bin.
"But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." James 3:8. Truer words were never written. |
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a recall button for email. Like, um, say I accidentally hit Send (everyone who knows me personally would not find that surprising). I did not mean to hit Send yet. I was not through writing. Or I was not through proofreading. Or I was not through analyzing my reasons for writing what I was writing. Or I had not asked myself the question that should accompany every email I send: "Do I really want this thought that has no expiration date to go out in permanent ink??"
So, anyway, it was sent, much to my dismay, and I immediately want to crawl inside the computer monitor, grab the email by the throat, and drag it back under my control.
If someone will show me how, I am going to invent a Retrieve button, which will go right next to the Proofread button (which I'm also inventing). Retrieval can be activated anywhere from 1 milisecond to 48 hours after hitting Send. Then somehow, no doubt by magic, even though the person I sent the email to will have read it almost immediately after I hit Send, the Retrieval button will be able to erase the contents of the email from the memory of the recipient, plus they will not even know they had received it.
This really sounds like a good idea to me. Have you ever wished for a Retrieve button on your computer?
Hello, Vicki. |
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To get dressed, fix my hair, and put on make-up BEFORE checking Pleonast.
But don't hold me to it. |
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For some time now I have been working on a hymn that would reflect some of the trials we face as our bodies age and our circumstances in life change. Some of these observations are from my own life, while others come from those I love who are facing these changes with both courage and a surprising amount of humor. Growing older has its frustrations and discouragements, feelings of isolation and loss. Eccl 12:1 speaks of the "difficult days" coming (NKJ). But before those words there is this admonition: "Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth..." Having our faith firmly and early set with the One who has created not only ourselves but all the seasons of our lives, who knows what we deal with and offers us something better, can help us to accept the certain changes with greater gracefulness, greater patience, and greater appreciation for what we have had and what is in store if we believe His word.
He Will See Me Safely Home
by Anne Stevens
1. When I fail to hear the voices blending,
And my arms grow weak that once were strong,
When I no more see the rainbow bending,
And the night be lonely and be long,
(Chorus)
Let me not begrudge my fading vision,
Let me not my youth now gone bemoan.
'Tis the Savior knows the path before me.
Sure and He will see me safely home.
2. When my friends no longer gather 'round me,
And the one I love has passed away,
When those things once simple may confound me,
And my feet may stumble on their way,
3. 'Tho I long to lose this earthly burden,
Shed this tent that ties me here below,
There is One whose help for me is certain,
And my troubles Jesus ever knows.
4. Let my hands find work of God's own making.
Let my faith in Him be fuller grown,
For each feeble step that I am taking
Takes me one step closer to my Home.
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concerning housing when Hurricane Ike hit in September. Texas has it. You just have to look for it.
We saw this on the way home from deer hunting, and I couldn't resist taking a picture. There was another "slightly used" house next to it, but I figured one was enough. |
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