If you can forgive yourself you are less likely to turn everything on the other person. Forgiveness is the essense of love.  Most unforgiveness is an outward display of an inward hatred for oneself.  "We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God".

Golf balls

This came to me last night, hadn't thought of it for many years.
I wonder if we were the only ones(kids) that discovered it. In the old days my days, we lived by a golf course and so golf balls were in abundance. We made our own fun...We liked the ones with a hole in the casing so we could get the casing of and there it was..miles and miles of rubber string rolled up into a ball. We would unravel the rubber for days and days anxious to see what was in the middle if anything. Alas some years later the golf balls changed and they no longer contained the rolled up rubber string that went on forever. Do you know what was inside the rubber string if anything? There was also a small stream in the bushes surrounding the golf course with small, very small fish, it was fun to go there and catch them and bring them home. Of course they never lived very long. They were the size of a guppy and looked similar.

I was reminded by a viewer that when you get down almost to the center the rubber string left on the center takes off in a skittle, unwinding on its own a hundred miles an hour til the center is revealed.  That makes sense since it is a very tight wind of rubber string.  So, there is someone else that has experienced what I did as a youth, sigh:)

Stranger danger

Times were different way back when....pace was so slow, we were able to wander a few miles from home or perhaps they didn't know where we went? Crime was unheard of for the most part and sexual deviates just didn't exist or at least no one made us aware of them. There were two incidences that happened when I was very young, one occurred when I was 3-6 maybe. We were on our way home from aunties Halloween party, walking with mom and siblings when someone jumped out of the bushes and grabbed my oldest sister. My mom must have grabbed her and said "run" as that's what we did. It seems we were only a block or so from our house. I don't recall that the police were called although my Uncle Bill was called and came. He wasn't really our uncle or at least I don't think he was but he may have been a policeman. I have always felt there was much more to this story, maybe from the comments made that night quietly while we weren't supposed to be hearing:) Alas, I don't remember what was heard but it did cause me to always be suspicious of what really went on that night.

The other event that happened was when I was anywhere from 7-10 years old. We walked to school, me and my friend, from my house to the school crosswalk was 3quarters of a block or so. There was a car parked at the side of the road facing the crosswalk maybe a half a block where a policeman was our crosswalk patrol. Back then or at least in my neighborhood, policemen walked the children across the road with the stop sign in their hand. Back then everyone loved the police and would never have been so disrespectful as to call them 'cops'.
Anyway, we wondered about the man sitting there in the car and being nosy little brats we 'nonchalantly' or so we thought, walked back and forth beside the car trying to see in. I won't tell you what we saw and unfortunately we didn't tell the policeman either. Too bad there wasn't more information given to children about 'danger strangers' or maybe the innocence was best left untouched.

The things we came up with, it's a wonder we lived through it

I remember being in the upper grades and trying with friends to go off into another world via fainting.  We would squeeze each other around the rib area until we would get light headed close to fainting via the loss of breath..  We then would fall to the ground and everything would spin but we did not lose consciousness.  I think that is the reason we did it although I am not positive.

I personally painted my tongue with fingernail polish and the results were that I couldn't taste anything for a while.  I guess this was an attempt to lose weight?  Or just experimenting.  That and airplane glue smelled glorious but we didn't do it for the reasons they do now, it was just an added benefit of using them:)

When I was very young my favorite weird thing to eat was the burnt sulfur of matches.  People actually saved them for me.  Sheesh!

Cont. as I remember them.

When I was very little in the middle of the night I would go in the closet where there was a box of clothes and there I would curl up on those cool clothes in the dark closet and fall asleep.  That worked for a while til one morn I guess I didn't beat the family to the wake up call and was rudely awakened by rough hands and shouts that "I better not do that again". I guess they couldn't find me and was afraid I had been kidnapped.  I sure miss that dark cool place:)

FEED ME!

I should have more memories on what we ate but right now I don't.

I do remember butter bread with sugar and cinnamon:)  Lots of sugar!

I loved corn, yum, still do.  Back then some shysters talked my mom into the freezer full of meat and vegys for so much money, wow, I was on top of this world 

We ate grape leaves from the grapevine outside.....Wow if my memory serves me I sure don't have any reason to be fat since I never ate anything:)

Awwww, torn up bread in a bowl of milk with sugar on it.  My mom ate sardines with mustard on crackers, not us kids, blah!  I did get her buttermilk habit though.  I seem to be having spacing problems, I did not skip two spaces between the first few paragraphs.  If I return it skips two instead of one, anyone know how to change it back?

MIRACLE IN A MILK BOTTLE 

My mom stopped years of physical abuse with a milk bottle.  I used to hear my step father(spitooie) slugging my mother with his fists.  One day he was sitting in his chair and I was sitting on the couch, my mom walked in and broke a glass milk bottle over his knee.  Back then they were very heavy milk bottles.  That cured him!  Thank God for small miracles.  I went running out crying, not for him but my mother had never been violent and it was quite a scene.  She never said a word but it wasn't necessary.

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New International Version (©1984)
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

New Living Translation(©2007)
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

English Standard Version(©2001)
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

New American Standard Bible(©1995)
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseler, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

GOD'S WORD® Translation(©1995)
A child will be born for us. A son will be given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. He will be named: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

American King James Version
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

American Standard Version
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Darby Bible Translation
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

English Revised Version
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Webster's Bible Translation
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

World English Bible
For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Young's Literal Translation
For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

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