Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
CLUES ACROSS
Volunteer school groups
Cash machine
Title of various Muslim rulers
Indian
Scarf
Easily manageable
Cry
Financial term
Reactive structure in organic
(abbr.) 20. Clean out a riverbed
Seaport (abbr.)
English seascape painter
Bring back again
Subtracted from
30. Related on the mother’s side
31. Mooches
32. Commotion
33. Boer War general
34. Silklike nylon fabric
39. CNN’s founder
42. Sarcastic in a bitter way
44. Minute reproductive unit
46. Nourishment
47. Large predatory tropical fish
49. Small, rich sponge cake
50. Drink a small amount
51. Golfer Rodriguez
56. Norse personification of old age
57. Large flightless bird
58. Capsized
59. Convicted American spy
60. Music genre
61. Makes tractors
62. Undergo cell disintegration
63. Patti Hearst’s captors
64. Selfs
CLUES DOWN
1. Post-traumatic stress disorder
2. Goat-like mammal
3. Swiss river 4. Slithered
5. Humiliate 6. Tumbled 7. Popular alcoholic drink
8. Small round hole in a leather cloth
Fertilizer
State of affairs that seems deliberately contrary
Count on
One who discriminates against
New Hampshire city
One who cares for teeth
Sent off
Mutual savings bank
Initial public offering
Denial
Northeastern institution of higher learning (abbr.)
A doctrine
Consumed
37. Trent Reznor’s band
38. Perform in a movie 40. Schoolhouse implements 41. Mathematical term
42. Man who behaves dishonorably
43. Expression of regret 44. Martens
45. Approval
47. Pleasantly warm
48. The Eurasian hoopoe
49. NBAer Bradley
52. Engineering organization
53. Horsefly
54. Type of sandwich
55. A day in the middle of the month
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A Father’s Day to remember
I had a splendid Father’s Day this year. Because it was “our day” I was given the liberty to share a few “dad jokes”. Do you know what the horse said when it tripped and fell? It cried out, “I’ve fallen and I can’t giddy up.” And why do crows never get hit by automobiles? They always warn each other by saying “caw, caw, caw.” I think Father’s Day is becoming my favorite holiday, after Christmas and Easter. I told my church that becoming a father for the first time back in July of 1988 was the moment when my life took on a greater purpose than ever before.
This year, Father’s Day was better than ever. It all started when my wife said “Happy Father’s Day” at the moment she awoke. It continued at church with a full house of joyful excited Bible-believing Christians worshiping together.
In our service, the youth read a Psalm and a poem in unison about our good heavenly
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Father. In keeping with honoring dads, our men and boys came up front and led our first song. It was that great old hymn, “Faith of our Fathers.”
One of the lines goes like this, “Faith of our fathers living still, in spite of dungeon, fire and sword. O how our hearts beat high with joy. Whene’er we hear that glorious word! Faith of our fathers holy faith! We will be true to thee to death!”
After more songs and a prayer, I preached from Hebrews 11 about the great foundation of faith that a godly father needs to be anchored to, and how so many of the great men of the Bible acted in faith to accomplish God’s will. After church, there were many
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handshakes and encouraging words shared back and forth as people headed off to join their families for celebrations at home.
We also got together at our own farm with all of our kids and grandkids as well, and it was a joy. We were especially blessed when my father-in-law and mother-in-law, as well as my own mom, were able to join us for our cookout. We feel beyond blessed to be able to share our lives with them as they move into their 90s. Several times throughout the day I thought of my own dad, who went to glory a little over a year ago. I can’t wait to see him again soon. He was so easy to talk to, and like his father before him, he never said a bad word about anyone – I’m not just saying that. It’s absolutely true.
My father poured himself into our family from my earliest memories until he passed. He was never pushy about his faith in Jesus, but he loved to
gently and kindly tell us of the Savior. He loved the word of God and especially the great patriarch, Abraham. He often shared about the faith of Abraham, who was the greatest example of obedience to God’s call. By faith, Abraham left his homeland and family to journey to a faraway land that he knew nothing about to become the father of a nation that would bless the entire world by giving us a Savior. It was out of the Jewish people that Jesus Christ came to die and rise again in order to bring salvation to every corner of the earth. Dad loved the farm, but he also knew that what mattered most was leading his family into heaven for all eternity. He did it so well and with such ease of manner. I miss our talks and our time together, but I know it won’t be long until I’ll see my father in the presence of our Heavenly Father as well. I’m pretty sure dad will be smiling from ear to ear.
Until next week, God bless.
Young on the inside
A very good friend shared a written message regarding thoughts on aging with me. It was about growing old, but not feeling like you are growing old. It gave me pause to ponder. Your hair may be graying. Your skin thins and sags. Laugh lines – aka wrinkles – provide evidence of the happiness you’ve experienced. Medical issues
By JILL PERTLER Columnist
may be more prevalent and demand more of your attention than in the past. All around you, your body shows
obvious signs of aging, but inside you’re still the same you – youthful and young.
Isn’t that the truth?
We all grow old on the outside, but don’t we feel young on the inside?
I know I do.
Do we ever change from that young, energetic spirit that once embodied our bodies into the old, wrinkled self that our bathroom mirror
now houses? I know I don’t want to – or plan to.
Time changes our physical beings. But it doesn’t change all the rest: our character, our sense of humor, our wisdom, our knowledge, our sense of adventure, our free spirit, our sassiness, our love for life, our soul.
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We are so much more than the skin on our bones. We are so much more than the cells that make up our bodies. We are so much more than wrinkles and gray hair, sagging jowls and sagging –well, I won’t go there.
Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a mirror that could see us from the inside, as we see ourselves? As we truly feel? As we truly are?
Sigh. There are no magic mirrors.
Our eyes, and our mirrors, are constrained to the visual rules of Mother Earth’s three-
or-so dimensions. It’s only when we leapfrog over these facts that we see things not as they physically are, but as they truly are. All too often, that knowledge comes with the lessons of time. And by the time we learn this, youth has often been spent. It’s at this point, you look in the mirror and realize the only one who sees who you really are – still – is you, and perhaps (if you are lucky) those who have watched the calendar turn year after year, with you, alongside you.
Those who have known you – inside and out – for decades. Since band class in junior high. Since sophomore year in high school. Since then, whenever that was, when youth was easy and undeniable and underappreciated and so very there for the taking. But then, like sands through the hourglass… Youth fades. Along the way – through the days and months and years and decades – it gives way to time and time creates not only wrinkled skin but the
cloak of invisibility. It comes upon us gradually – much like age is said to creep up on us.
In our culture, youth is shiny and bright and very visible. Aging is not. So as the calendar turns over each year and our age number increases by one, we become less youthful and a little less visible to those who merely see what is in front of them. We don the cloak of invisibility. But perhaps invisibility isn’t so bad. Perhaps it is even under-rated. Perhaps
it can be your secret. Our secret. Because in the end, it doesn’t really matter what the mirror reflects back upon you. It doesn’t matter what other people see, or think they see when they meet you face to face.
Because you know. You. Know. Age is a gift, and in such, this is written in truth. In some regards, increasing age brings with it decreasing visibility within the norms of this physical world. But that is okay.
It is more than okay. The beauty of youth gives way to the beauty of age. And if you learn to see that, really see that, you are truly bestowed.
Growing old is inevitable. Becoming old is a choice. What you see in the mirror is your decision – at any age. And that, my friends, is truly magic.
Jill Pertler is an awardwinning syndicated columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.
