C4 - THE JOURNAL, Thursday, March 15, 2012
Seniors
Will Rogers Book Review at Senior Center
The City of Stillwater noon. In the afternoon at be played. Everyone come instruments and start some
Senior Activity Center will
host an, "One Book, One
Community" book discus-
sion on "Will Rogers", a
biography written by his
wife, Betty Rogers. This
discussion will be pre-
sented by Pat Jaynes and is
open to the community on
Friday, March 23 at 10:00
a.m. Everyone is welcome.
Also, the free income tax
service continues to be
provided by AARP trained
representatives. This ser-
vice is Monday through
Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:
00 p.m. and will run through
April 17% No appointment
is needed. Bring your last
year's tax return and all
income information. Center
hours are: Monday through
Friday, 9:30 am to 4:30 p.m.
and Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. 'for music night.
The facility is closed on
weekends. Stop by 1015
E. 12 th or call 747-8080 for
more informatioo and make
sure to pick up a March cal-
endar of events.
Monday, March 19-
Women's pool shooting and
a painting class; are a couple
of the morning events that
begin at 9:30 a.m. Also,
the tax aid preparers will
be busy from 9:30 to 12
1:00 p.m. games of; rubber
bridge, canasta, dominoes,
pool, and Mexican train
dominoes, are played.
Tuesday, March 20 - Get
in shape with the free Sit'n
Be Fit exercise class that is
offered at 9:30 a.m. every
Tuesday and Thursday.
This class is a 45-minute
workout where chairs are
provided for each person.
Some exercises are done
while sitting and some are
done while standing by your
chair. Bouncing balls, hand
weights, and stretch bands
are incorporated in to the
exercises for an extensive
workout. Wii games and
ping pong are always avail-
able for a fun time, too.
The free tax help continues
from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00
noon. Afternoon activities
include games such as;
duplicate bridge, Mexican
Train dominoes, canasta,
pitch, Skipbo, puzzle solv-
ing, snooker, pool and
dominoes. A representa-
tive from Veteran's Affairs
comes in on Tuesdays, from
1:00-2:45 p.m. to help with
any questions or paperwork
you may have pertaining to
veteran's assistance. Also,
at 1:00 p.m. a men's in-
house pool tournament will
join the fun!
Wednesday, March 21
- Pool is popular again
with the women starting at
9:30 a.m. Also, the AARP
tax preparers will be here
during the morning. Wii
interactive games and ping
pong are also available for
participation. Afternoon
games that usually begin at
1:00 p.m. include; canasta,
dominoes, pool, Texas
Hold'em, pitch, and puzzle
solving. The adventure
movie, "Hugo", will be
shown at 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22- Try
out the free Sirn Be Fit
exercise class that meets at
9:30 a.m. It will give you a
good stretching of the mus-
cles and help you tone up.
The income tax aid group
meets again at 9:30 until 12
noon. Afterwards, Wii Fit is
available to use. This is an
interactive game system
that challenges and can
help improve your balance.
At 1:00 p.m. you can join
in games of canasta, domi-
noes, social bridge, pitch,
pool, snooker, and puzzle
solving. At 2:00 p.m. bingo
is called. Thursday evenings
the Center's doors reopen at
5:30 p.m. for Music Night.
The musicians tune up their
good o1' country tunes at 6:
00 p.m.
Friday, March 23 - Wom-
en's pool practice gets
going again at 9:30 a.m.,
while the painting class
also gets together during the
same time. There is exercise
equipment, Wii games, and
a ping pong table all avail-
able for use, too. At 10:00
a.m. a book review on "Will
Rogers" will be presented.
The community is invited
to attend. Afternoon games
include: canasta, pool,
snooker, pitch, Texas
Hold'era, dominoes, and
a puzzle is out waiting for
someone to find the missing
pieces.
Last weeks winners of
rubber bridge were: Treca
Baer, 1 st and Dollie McClary
and Marge Reynolds, tied
for 2 "d. Social bridge win-
ners were: Lew Taylor, 1 st,
and Shirley Crockett, 2 "d.
Duplicate bridge winning
partners were: Lionel Raff
and Seham E1 Sherif, l st;
Betty Lowrey and Donna
Beason, 2 "a. Texas Hold'em
winners of the week were:
Shirley Crockettt and Allen
Shields.
For more information, call
City of Stillwater Senior
Activity Center, 747-8080.
CHURCH
continued from page C3
with Him. There is a difference between what is said and
what is done; remembering that if we talk the talk, we need
to walk the walk! When we reject the Truth of God's Word,
the world will do what the world will do. The moral compass
of the world is spinning out of control - only the Truth of
God's Word can set it right.
In the evening, Brother Robin shared information about the
beginning of Baptist work and mission efforts through such
men as William Cary, Adoniram Judson, and Luther Rice.
These men began the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-
20) work that has become the cornerstone of Baptist work
to this day. Southern Baptist churches associate together to
become one of the largest missionary sending entities in the
world. Through their cooperating church efforts, Disaster
Relief teams, for instance, are sent many places to minister
to those in need freely sharing the love of Christ. The Southern
Baptist Convention has dealt with issues of its early begin-
nings and ismoving forward, renewed to reach the world
with the gospel message through independent congregations
cooperating together because of His love and commandment
to "Go."
AWANA Clubs will not meet during Spring Break, but will
be in session again Mar. 28 at 6:30 p.m. Children's Camp
Lela registration is coming soon and registration forms as
available!
Come visit us at 2415 E 104 Street, just a mile north of Per-
kins. Info: 547-1222 or www.immanuelbaptistperkins.org
The Church of Christ in Perkins
By Bob Penick
Most men don't want to go to a doctor unless it is absolutely
necessary. I tell my dentist that I'll come see him every other
year to get my teeth cleaned unless a tooth hurts of breaks.
Several weeks ago when our son-in-law, Robert, came down
with some, yet to be diagnosed, malady that almost put him
out of commission, he finally broke down and went to see a
doctor. Some at church said he must really be sick to do that.
Many of us men, like Robert, do not cotton much to preven-
tive medical treatment, and when we get sick we assume it's
nothing we can't handle by toughing it out by ourselves. We
hope that, as long as we don't know about it, nothing bad
could be happening to us, and we'll be O: K. Sometimes
we let things go too long, and by the time we discover the
problem, it's too late to fix it. I lost my mother that way.
That sort of thing happens in the spiritual world as well.
Jesus warned us of the real danger of going to hell, and he
very plainly described things that would cause us to wind up
there. But, we don't think he really meant it, and we decide not
to think about it and hope it won't happen to us. Even when
we try to live spiritually healthy lives ourselves, but see our
friends, kinfolks and others doing something that Jesus said
would cause them to be lost, we hesitate to confront them
because we don't want to offend them, hurt their feelings or
rain our relationship. If a friend gets sick, and we know of
a cure, we are always eager to share it, but when it involves
sickness of the soul, we are afraid to say anything.
When I was young, my relationship with Jesus was very
important to me, and I wanted to understand everything Jesus
said, but there were 3 or 4 subjects that leaders in the church
were reluctant to study or even talk about publicly. They
seemed to be afraid that if they taught what Jesus really said
about sex, marriage & divorce, and Christians going to war for
earthly governments, they might offend someone and cause
a controversial fuss in their congregation. Those are still dif-
ficult subjects to teach about today, but young people deserve
the opportunity to hear what Jesus taught before having to
make those monstrously important decisions on their own.
We invite you to join us on Lover's Lane where our minis-
ter, elders, and teachers are trying to help with some of these
real life questions in light of some often ignored teachings
of Jesus.
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
By Fr. Ken Harder
The first reading tells us the story of God delivering his
commandments to his people Israel. The giving of the law
was the culmination of God' s saving action for his people. All
of the great works, the plagues in Egypt, the crossing through
the Red Sea and the subsequent defeat of the Egyptians, as
they pursued Israel led up to this great moment. The whole
story of the people of Israel was for them to learn to keep
God's commandments.
Like the ancient Israelites, we too can see 'law' as some-
thing that restricts our freedom. The ancient Israelites often
disobeyed God because something more immediately pleas-
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Overused Gobbledygook
You may know that when Congressman Maury Maver-
ick from Texas read through a copy of a proposed law, he
spawned the word, "Gobbledygook" for the unintelligible
gibberish of the legal profession.
When Jim Dickson was teaching his class on commu-
nications skills, he told his students to avoid using slang
words and expressions when they gave their speeches. He
warned them that he would drop their grade if he heard
any "dudes", babes", "cools", "likes", or "you knows":
One student in the back of the room was heard mumbling,
"Bummer!"
Have you gotten as tired of listening to star athletes,
popular entertainers, and other celebrates who cannot
complete a sentence without a dozen "likes" and a couple
of "you knows"? And then, there are some words that
have lost their meaning because of overuse. We some-
times watch the T.V. show "Pickers" where two likable
guys travel all over the country buying old "stuff" they
can resell, and everything they find is either "Awesome
or a cool piece."
It seems as if some of us can't talk at all without the
repeated use of trite popular cliches. Michigan's Lake
Superior State University has posted its' 2012 list of
words that should be banished from the Queen's English
because of overuse or misuse that has rendered them use-
less. Heading the list is the word "Amazing". Everything
we like and things that are only a little better than others
are now regularly pronounced "Amazing or Awesome",
so to magnify something more praiseworthy, we have
invented words like "Ginormus". That word has now
been so overused that it has made it onto this years' list.
So now, we must come up with an even more auspicious
word to describe something we are even more in awe of.
How do you suppose we can now properly refer to God
who is more truly AWESOME than anything we can
ever imagine?
When I was teaching school, I tried to stay current
with all of the teen lingo, but now that I've reached
my "mellow" years, I've only lately tuned in to some
words on this list such as these: "man-cave", "the new
normal", "baby bump", "pet parent", "win the future", and
one I received recently from a solicitor, "Thank you in
advance". This last one was an "a-ha moment" for me-(a
phrase that was on the universities list last year).
By the way, what's another word for "thesaurus"?
ing seduced them. They often saw something that satisfied
their immediate desires as better for them. Their struggle is
ours as well. God gave his law, not to restrict, but to help the
people live in this world with the truly good things in mind.
Whenever something seemed desirable to them, they were
to measure it against the law to see if it was truly good. The
psalm used in today' s.mass speaks of their recognition as the
law of the Lord as making them perfect. The primary purpose
of any law is to bring about harmony for a community. Law
is good because it helps us to understand our relationships
with others. Law also helps us to be the best we can be for
ourselves.
For instance, we have discipline for ourselves that help
us live out our talents. At the end of the gospel, we are told
that Jesus knew human nature well and did not trust himself
to the people. In other words, Jesus knew that the human
heart is fickle. The sense of commitment is lacking. People
followed him because they saw his signs, yet he knew they
would turn on him at his passion. Jesus knows human nature
well. He knows that while we may believe, we falter in our
belief. He therefore endows his Church with the means the
remedy for the fickle human heart. Conversion is not a one
time event, as some may suppose it to be. Conversion is a
way of life. Conversion means that we continually turn to
God, that we intentionally strive to love him more and more.
Conversion is also a way of life with others with whom we
have relationship, such as spouses, family, friends and indeed
all people. Conversion means that we actively look into our
hearts and root out those desires that keep us from loving
as we should.
Part of living a life of conversion is living a life of confes-
sion. Confession of our faults and sins is necessary if we are
to love more fully. Confession is a daily process by which
we hold ourselves accountable for our failures and learn to
be more loving. One of Christ's gifts to his Church is the
Sacrament of Reconciliation. This sacrament is a great tool
that helps that process. Can you be forgiven without going
to sacramental confession? Yes. But the full experience of
confession is being able to say out loud what you know
within; to have someone hear you who can in the name of
the whole Church, pronounce that you are forgiven. Lent is a
time for deeper conversion, I strongly urge you to experience
the aid of the Sacrament of Reconciliation so that your life of
confession, of conversion may be brought to fullness. Then
you will understand more and more what the psalm says, 'the
law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul.'
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