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Archive for December 18th, 2006

This Christmas welcome to the Mental Health Hotline

Posted by Don Bryant on December 18, 2006

Hello, and welcome to the Mental Health Hotline:

If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want.  Stay on the line so we can trace your call.

If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are manic-depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press, no one will answer.

If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.

If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key until a representative comes on line.

If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number and your mother’s maiden name.

If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, s-l-o-w-l-y and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y press 000.

If you have bipolar disorder, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep.  Please wait for the beep.

If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.  If you have short term memory loss, press 9.  If you have short term memory loss, press 9.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up.  All operators are too busy to talk to you.

If you are menopausal, hang up, turn on the fan, lay down and cry.  You won’t be crazy forever.

If you are blonde, don’t press any buttons.  You’ll just mess it up.

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You have to read this

Posted by Don Bryant on December 18, 2006

On Erika Carney Haub’s blog she ruminates on the experience and writings of Frederick Douglas who firsthand witnessed the juxtaposition of slavery and Christianity. She quotes from him. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today’s Quote 12/18/06

Posted by Don Bryant on December 18, 2006

Apart from Jesus Christ we do not know what is our life, or our death, or God, or ourselves. Thus without the Scripture, which has Jesus Christ alone for its object, we can know nothing, and see only obscurity and confusion in the nature of God and in our own nature.    Blaise Pascal

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We are in the believing business

Posted by Don Bryant on December 18, 2006

At the root of what I do as a pastor is believe – see the invisible, past the curtain, past the immediate and the sensational. And then I point others to believing, too. I am not running a day spa where I simply massage people’s aches and pains and make them forget for a while. I am not an activities director, social events planner, food service provider (anyone here for another potluck?) or positive thinking guru who keeps people on the sunny side of life. Read the rest of this entry »

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