1. Living …divided no more Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23

2.  Life On Mars  A story making the rounds concerns a Biology I examination in which the students were asked:  Suppose you could take to Mars any of the laboratory equipment used in this course. How would you determine if there was life on Mars? One student responded: Ask the inhabitants. Even a negative answer would be significant.  The student got an A. Carl Sagan, Other Worlds

3. preserved example of primitive art dates from the Post-Catatonic era and is thought to depict early man venturing  "This finely preserved example of primitive art dates from the Post-Catatonic era and is thought to depict early man venturing towards the out-of-town hunting grounds. ”  "Most art of this type has unfortunately not survived. The majority is destroyed by zealous municipal officials who fail to recognise the artistic merit and historical value of daubing on walls." Early Man Goes to Market

4. cat · a · ton · ic adj in a stupefied or unconscious state, especially one caused by drunkenness (informal) Encarta ® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

5. Candy Counter Culture We were on our annual Christmas trek to Chicago. Each year we brought our family to spend time with Grandpa and Grandma and visit the museums. This year we decided to finish our Christmas shopping at suburban Woodfield Mall. In the midst of all the fun and excitement, one of us noticed that little three-and-a-half-year-old Matthew was gone. Terror immediately struck our hearts. We had heard the horror stories:

6. little children kidnapped in malls, rushed to a restroom, donned in different clothes and altered hairstyle, and then swiftly smuggled out, never to be seen again. We split up, each taking an assigned location. Mine was the parking lot. I ’ ll never forget that night kicking through the newly fallen snow, calling out his name at the top of my lungs.

7. I felt like an abject fool, yet my concern for his safety outweighed all other feelings. Unsuccessful, I trudged back to our meeting point. My wife, Martie, had not found him, nor had my mother. And then my dad appeared, holding little Matthew by the hand. Our hearts leapt for joy. Interestingly enough, Matthew was untraumatized. He hadn ’ t been crying. To him, there had been no problem. I asked my father where he had found him. The candy counter, he replied. You should have seen him. His eyes came just about as high as the candy..

8. He held his little hands behind his back and moved his head back and forth, surveying all the luscious options. Matthew didn ’ t look lost. He didn ’ t know he was lost. He was oblivious to the phenomenal danger he was in. This is a candy-counter culture, where people who don ’ t look lost and don ’ t know they ’ re lost. Joseph M. Stowell, Moody Monthly

9.  In an average lifetime, the average American spends:  3 years in business meetings  13 years watching TV  $89,281 on food  Consumes 109,354 pounds of food  Makes 1811 trips to McDonalds  Spends $6881 in vending machines  Eats 35,138 cookies and 1483 pounds of candy  Catches 304 colds  Is involved in 6 motor vehicle accidents,  Is hospitalized 8 times (men) or 12 times (women)  Spends 24 years sleeping. In an Average Lifetime, Tom Heyman

10.  According to National Geographic, in an average lifetime, the average American blinks 393,674,400 times. That means his or her eyes are shut for:  a) 4 months  b) 9 months  c) 18 months

11. Now that I'm older, here's what I've discovered: 1 I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it. 2 My wild oats have turned into prunes and all-bran. 3 I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart. 4 Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.... 5 All reports are in; Life is now officially unfair. 6 If all is not lost, where is it. 7 It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser. 8 Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. 9 I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few. 10 Kids in the back seat cause accidents. 11 Accidents in the back seat cause...kids.

12. 12 It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. 13 Only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom. 14 If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put then on my knees. 15 It's not hard to meet expenses...they're everywhere. 16 The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. 17 These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter...I go somewhere to get something, and then wonder what I'm hereafter.

13. Next time you are having a shower and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be... Here are some facts from the 1500's Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.

14. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, next all the other sons and men, next the women and finally the children; last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it; hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water".

15. Houses had thatched roofs (thick straw) piled high, with no wood beneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof; hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs".

16. There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up a bed. A bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection; hence canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt, and only the wealthy had something other than dirt; hence the saying "dirt poor".

17. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entryway; hence a "threshold".

18. In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while; hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot - nine days old".

19. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon". They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat".

20. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leak onto the food causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top or the "upper crust".

21. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days, and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up; hence the custom of "holding a wake".

22. England is old and small, and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside, and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin, up through the ground, and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night on the "graveyard shift" to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer".

23. Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23

24. What is it that motivates people like these…

25. living an undivided life they all have chosen, or chose, to live undivided lives. Rosa Parkes - December 1, 1955 she made a choice to live, “divided no more”

26. living an undivided life John Smith - January, 1972 John, his wife and a small group of friends made the choice to live, “divided no more”

27. living an undivided life Mal Garvin - 1960 Mal made the choice to live, “divided no more”

28. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45

29. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 1Corinthians 13:12

30. living an undivided life All movements go through 4 stages: an individual decides to live, “divided no more” places are found where like minded to get together open and honest dialogue as its values are forged it is integrated into society in general

31. Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

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