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Faith EVENTS Christian Haven Church Jam Session CHIPLEY — Christian Haven Church will have its monthly jam session June 1. Refreshments will start at 6 p.m. and singing shortly after. For more information, call 638-0836 or 773-2602.
Sunny Hills Chapel Gospel Sing SUNNY HILLS — Sunny Hills Chapel will have a gospel sing at 10 a.m. June 2. The gospel sing will be feature The Kevin Wilson Singers from London, Ky. This will be the singers’ first time in our area. Lunch will be served. The church is five miles south of Wausau on State Road 77.
Sandy Creek Homecoming PONCE DE LEON — Sandy Creek Baptist Church will celebrate homecoming at 10 a.m. on June 9. Bring a covered dish to share at noontime.
Bethlehem Camp Meeting BONIFAY — The Bethlehem Family Camp Meeting will be held from June 21 to June 28 at 3073 Highway 160 in Bonifay. For more information visit bethlehemcamp.org or call 547-2598.
Liberty Church VBS Liberty Church is offering kids in kindergarten through fourth grades one awesome time at Vacation Bible School, beginning June 24. At VBS, kids can choose a sport — if they’ve played all their life of just started yesterday, this VBS will improve their skills. All sorts of drills and practice games will get kids focused on the fundamentals that make athletes great. Plus, VBS creates a positive and encouraging environment that pumps up their confidence and self-esteem. Join the VBS team at Liberty Church, 3983 Creek Road, Vernon. It starts from 5:30-8:30 p.m. nightly from June 24-28. Dinner is provided, and it’s free. Transportation will also be provided. If your child needs a ride or for more information, call or text Gwen Brock at 260-6924.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The many excuses of a man in midlife crisis Sometimes it is best to err The difficulty with growing on the side of caution. This, older is that the old memory however, has not always been juices do not flow as swiftly my modus operandi as they once did. down through the Of course, some years. In fact, I am of us never had a not very good when it real gusher in that comes to practicing department anyway. anything, just ask the The more memories Gracious Mistress of I have, the less I am the Parsonage. able to recall them As of late, though, I in the innocence of DR. JAMES have been practicing their reality. Like the L. SNYDER caution like I was fisherman who tells Out to Pastor going to Carnegie the size of the one Hall. I am not very good at it that got away, memory seems yet, but my goal is to come to to add or subtract according the point of perfection in the to the benefit of the person area of caution as it touches conjuring up the memory. my person, particularly A big problem a man in my health and well-being. mid-life crisis has is he does This may be because I have not remember how good he reached that age when most actually was when he was men go through a midlife 20, unless of course, his wife crisis. knew him at that time. If he You can always tell when could, he would not have to a man is going through his try to replicate it when he is midlife crisis. He usually 60. This is one of the unique wants to prove he is as good advantages of maturing. at 60-something as he was Forgetting always leads to when he was 20-something. exaggerating. Exaggerating Carelessly throwing caution at 60-something leads to to the wind, he attempts to do injuries. The only purpose something beyond the energy of this is to impress people of his existing body. One sure who really are not being way to tell if a man is having impressed. a midlife crisis is to notice his As we grow older things recent injuries. begin to change, and some Personally, when I was 20 things change for the better. I was not good at anything, When I was 20, I could not which has enabled me to admit to anybody that I was skip my midlife crisis. I am tired. I would have been glad to be 60 (okay, maybe the laughing stock in my I am a tad over 60) because community if I would admit now when I get tired I can any such phenomena. You say I am tired and sit down. know what they say about the At 60-something, I have unlimited energy that young absolutely nothing to prove. people have. Now that I am I am no better or worse than in my 60s, I can blame my I was when I was 20. It is, as advancing years on just about my wife notes, the ageless anything. wonder of incompetency. “I love to do that, but at my
“Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.” Proverbs 25:14 KJV age I don’t have the energy.” This has covered a multitude of sins, for which I am so grateful. Of course, it does have one drawback, when someone in their 80s invites me to go for a walk, what in the world can you say to that? This next one has to be one of my favorites. “I would love to do that but I have to get home for my afternoon nap.” The person will look at me, notice my maturing features and understand I desperately do need a nap or something resembling beauty sleep. I found one the other week that has proved quite beneficial. I was invited to a function during the evening, which turned out to be a rather boring affair. Once the meal was over people were milling around engaged in small talk. Nothing bores me quicker than small talk. Not knowing what to do, I pondered the situation for sometime. Then, like lightning from the heavens, I was struck with a brilliant idea. I went up to my host and said, “I’m sorry, but it is getting near my bedtime, and I have strict orders from my doctor to go to bed early. You’ll have to excuse me.” It worked like a charm. Everybody understood that a person of my age needs to go to bed early. I do not know who thought this up, probably
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Benjamin Franklin, but whoever it was, I owe them a steak dinner at the restaurant of their choice. It has now become part of my get-out-ofboring-situations arsenal. I was thinking about this the other day another good excuse popped into my head. Somebody invited me to come and play softball. At the time, they caught me off guard and I was trying to wiggle out of such an invitation. Then it dawned on me. “I am sorry, I would like to but my health insurance does not cover that kind of activity.” Whether my health insurance would cover that, I have no idea, but neither does anybody else, only my doctor knows for sure. While I was pondering this, I was reminded of a word from the Proverbs. “Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain” (Proverbs 25:14 KJV). Whoever boasts to others about their physical prowess is only fooling himself.