If you’re old enough, you may remember this. If not, that’s what YouTube is for. It’s the early 1970’s ad campaign for Mennen Skin Bracer that featured a slap in the face and the catch phrase, “Thanks; I needed that!” The ads tried to show that using the product after shaving would wake a man…
There are a couple of verses that have been popping up over the last couple of weeks, both in talking with people and in my own mind. They’re short verses, and they sound real simple. One is the first part of Psalm 55:22 that says, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain…
9/11/2001. 8:46 a.m. American Flight 11: 87. 9:03 a.m. United Flight 175: 60. World Trade Center: 2,606. 9:37 a.m. American Flight 77: 59. Pentagon: 125. 10:03 a.m. United Flight 93: 40. Terrorist Hijackers: 19. All told, 2,996. Among those: 343 firefighters and paramedics. 23 NYPD officers. 37 Port Authority officers. Just numbers? I don’t think…
Ever heard the phrase, “That made my day!”? Or, “You just made my day!”? When spoken truthfully, i.e. non-sarcastically, that means something said or done turned a day into a positive one. But have you ever had a day when everything just seemed to go wrong? I recently read about a man who was having…