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Permission to Have Fun

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Radio Show which you can listen to online at

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It's called "Permission to Have Fun"

Encouraging you to Pray & Play while Staying in Love with God.

Summer Heat!

How long does it take a blonde to drive a car eight miles in the pouring down rain?

Answer: One hour!

I'd found myself in a blanket of rain, so heavy it was like the clouds were touching the ground and dumping buckets of water right on top of me. As for the color of the sky, can you say gray? Dark. Wet. Muted gray. Where's a rainbow when you need one?
I left the highway near the paper mill and was only minutes from home, but it was like my car veered from the road on its own. Then I saw a group of cars, and three of them were stuck in the rushing water at the bottom of the hill.
I turned around, and by the time I'd driven five miles, up and back; I'd spent 40 minutes and only gone a few miles!
I zigzagged through town as many streets were flooded, cut through a sub division and found myself a block from the house. It took me another 20 minutes to get home!
All I can tell you is, that day I considered building an ark in my neighborhood. You could've joined and we might have gone down in history on "Pam's Ark," in memory of Noah's famous boat ride.

Update: This flood was in May! And now we're scorching in the sun with 105 degree weather!

Rain! Rain! Rain! Give me rain! Some oars, a boat and cooler temperatures!

Cows Explain Politics

I always knew I could learn something from a cow! See if you agree.

Cows Explain Politics

Mandatory 'gay' day for K-5 students

Mandatory 'gay' day for K-5 students

What's your take? Would you allow you children to attend?

Check it out!

Even the title of the curriculum book makes me ask some hard questions.

Be Kind to Critters!

This is BE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK. We can do a few things to help our furry friends!

1. Do something nice for your mice. After all, their ancestors did come over on the Mayflower.
2. Take time to stop and smell a skunk. Try not to hold your nose unless he holds his. While you're at it, let him borrow your after shave.
3. Create a scholarship fund for porcupines to study acupuncture.
4. Help an aardvark start his own ant farm.
5. Donate your old contact lenses to a mole.
6. Let your rabbit keep all four feet.
7. Designate one trash barrel with an easy open lid for raccoons.
8. Spiff up your armadillo with Armorall.
9. Give a rear-view mirror to a hummingbird. The hummingbird is the only living creature that can fly backwards, but it's no fun because he can't see where he's going.
10. Give a robin an alarm clock. A robin needs about 70 worms a day to stay alive, so he has to be an early bird.
11. Take your Chihuahua to Taco Bell.
12. Watch a Muppet movie with a frog.

And yes, I'm having way to much fun living in a rural area surrounded by critters of all kinds! Piney Woods in East Texas!

Chapstick Has Many Uses!

It's not Mother's Day, but gosh -- you need to check this story out. See if you have any Chapstick in the house! And if you have toddlers dispose of it before you have this happen to you.
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This family had a 10 year-old cat named Jack who died. Jack was a great cat ,and the kids would carry him around and sit on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on a mat in their bathroom.

At the time of this tale, the three children were four, three and one. The middle child loved Chapstick. He kept asking to use his Mom's Chapstick and then he'd often lose it.

So finally one day Mom showed him where she kept the Chapstick telling him he could use it anytime. The drawer in the bathroom held the stick of soothing ointment.

However, one Mother's Day as the family rushed to get ready for church everyone cried and carried on. Two of the kids fought over the toy in the cereal box while the baby wailed as Mom put her make up on.

Everything had long forgotten it was a Mother's Day, a Sunday to honor Mom and the amazing job she holds -- motherhood.

Finally everyone loaded up in the car only that "middle child" was missing. Mom hurried back into the house and found her toddler in the bathroom applying Chapstick VERY carefully to their cat's rear end.

The boy looked right into his mother's eyes and said "chapped."

Now if you have a cat, you know that their little butts do look pretty chapped at times. This Mom had only one question, "Was this the FIRST time her son applied Chapstick to the cat, or was it the 100th?!"

So got any fun Mother's Day tales to share? I'd love to hear them! And no, I don't want to borrow your Chapstick!

Baskin' Robins!

Two robins were sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry", said the first one.
"Me, too", said the second. "Let's fly down and find some lunch."
They flew to the ground and found a nice plot of plowed ground full of worms. They ate and ate and ate 'til they could eat no more. "I'm so full I don't think I can fly back up to the tree," said the first one.
"Me neither, let's just lay here and bask in the warm sun", said the second.
"OK", said the first.
They plopped down, basking in the sun. No sooner than they had fallen asleep, a big fat tomcat snuck up and gobbled them up.
As he sat washing his face after his meal, he thought, "I love baskin' robins."

If you find yourself going through the day like a person whose eaten way too much; then pause, reflect and see what the Lord would have you do instead.

I've learned that tomcats come disguised in many forms and they'll eat away at our time, zap our attitudes, and take away our joy.

My advice is -- keep your eyes open, snack on the flavorful promises of God and watch out for furry things that crowd your thoughts or your actions.

Don't let anything rob you of living a baskin' victorious life!