Sunday,  August 5, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 022 • 19 of 43 •  Other Editions

Local Church Appreciation Day announced for Sunday
Rev. James L. Snyder

• It is funny where you pick up an idea. I know I was not born with a truck full of ideas like some people. Take, for example, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. She has more ideas than you can shake a stick at, and believe me; I have shaken many a stick at her, behind her back, of course.
• I have to scrap around for an idea and then when I do find one I am so exhausted from the search that I am not sure what to do with it.
• Then an idea comes looking for me. That is a strange phenomenon.
• I was watching the news with my wife when we heard the lead story of the day about the Chick-fil-A appreciation day. I'm not sure I know all the political ins and outs of that sort of thing. Everything seems to have some kind of political overtone to it these days.
• What was once a matter of morality has become a matter of policy. Politics have invaded every aspect of our life, and I am so looking forward to heaven where, someone told me and I cannot reveal the source, but the word is out, there are no politics in heaven.
• Whenever you have an opportunity to go out and buy some chicken, I say take it. It was not hard to convince my

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