C4 - THE JOURNAL, Thursday, November 22, 2012
Seniors
Shoulder Massages offered at Senior Center
The City of Stillwater cise class starts at 9:30 ment which includes a night of music. The musi-
Senior Activity Center
will offer free neck and
shoulder massages on
Thursday November 29
from 2-3p. Stop by 1015
E. 12 th or call 747-8080
for more information on
activities offered and
make sure to pick up
a November calendar
of events. 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. Also, if you
are interested in joining
a bridge group, social or
duplicate, at the Center,
please call the number
given to receive informa-
tion on how to join.
Monday, November
26 - Popular morning
activities start at 9:30
a.m. These activities
include women's pool
and a painting class.
Come join the women
in some fun rounds of 8-
ball or bring your painting
supplies and get creative.
Afternoon activities start
around 1:00 p.m. which
include: bridge, canasta,
pool, snooker, dominoes,
and puzzle solving.
Tuesday, November 27
- A free Sit 'n Be Fit exer-
a.m. 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. After
exercise, some of the par-
ticipants stay and practice
line dancing steps for fun.
You are welcome to come
kick up your heels with
them around 10:30 a.m.
Wii games and ping pong
are always available for a
fun time, too. Afternoon
activities include games
such as; duplicate bridge,
dominoes, canasta, pitch,
puzzle solving, snooker,
pool and dominoes. A
representative from Vet-
eran'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. No
appointment is needed.
Wednesday, November
28 - The women rack
up the pool balls again
Wednesday morning at 9:
30 a.m. A Wii interactive
game set and a ping pong
table are also available
for use. Exercise equip-
treadmill, exercise bikes,
and a weight machine are
available, also. Afternoon
games begin around 1:
00 p.m. which include;
canasta, dominoes, Texas
Hold'em, pitch, pool
and snooker. A puzzle
is always out waiting for
someone to find a piece.
The drama, "The Lucky
One", will be shown at 2:
00 p.m.
Thursday, November 29
- Time to start that exer-
cise plan and get ready for
the holidays. A good start
would be the Sit 'n Be Fit
exercise class that meets
here at the Center every
Tuesday and Thursday at
9:30 a.m. Afterwards, you
can play some Wii games
or ping pong. Also, a
group of line dancers
sometimes stay and have
a good time stepping in
time to the music. At 1:
00 p.m. afternoon games
such as: canasta, domi-
noes, social bridge, pool,
snooker, and puzzle solv-
ing, get started. At 2:00
p.m. bingo is called. A
lot of laughs are always
shared during this time.
Don't miss out on the
good times. Thursday
evening, the doors open
back up at 5:30 p.m. for a
clans get set up and tuned
up and start some good o1'
country tunes at 6:00 p.m.
Come tap your toes with
everybody!
Friday, November 30
- Pool is played starting
at 9:30 a.m. by the women
pool players. The painting
group get out their paints
and brushes and share
ideas with each other.
Exercise equipment is
available for use, along
with a ping pong table
or Wii player. During the
afternoon enjoy games
of cards, pool, snooker,
Texas Hold'em, domi-
noes, and puzzle solving.
A men's pool tournament
will als0 be held at lp.
Last weeks winners of
bridge were: JW Thomas,
1 st; and Louie Geiser, 2 ud.
Duplicate bridge win-
ning partners were: Lucy
Robinson and Penny
Sizemore, lst; and Terry
Miller and Lew Taylor,
2 "d. Texas Hold'em cham-
pion for the week was:
Allen Shields. A men's
pool tournament was also
held with the winner of
Frank Berry.
For more information,
call City of Stillwater
Senior Activity Center,
747-8080.
CHURCH
continued from page C3
Y' all come !
Any donation on our new van will be matched to help
pay it off soon. Give thanks with a grateful Heart
The little "Big Kids" were praising the Lord in song
and action Sunday morning. Thank You to the kids and
Autumn. Jesus said "Let the children come unto Me."
We partook of Communion in remembrance of Christ's
sacrifice on the Cross for all of us.
Blessed is the Man who will eat at the feast in the king-
dom of God Luke 14:15.
We had 140 at Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday evening.
Thanks to cooks and servers.
Brett Webb and Yvette were baptized this week, praise
God for He is so Good.
Happy Thanksgiving every day. Pray you'll come and
worship Sunday.
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people of old, who waited in hope for the coming of the
Savior, we celebrate his coming among us as one of us, we
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his Passion. We celebrate his Resurrection and Ascension
and finally, his gift of the Holy Spirit. All these things are
historically grounded in past events, yet are just as real
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has yet to happen in history but is still present to us now;
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week. As we tum our attention on the end, we hear the
vivid imagery that is uncharacteristic of the Gospel of Mark.
An explanatory note may be helpful here. Apocalyptic lit-
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such force cannot be overcome in the ordinary manner,
the oppressed group looks for an outside power to come
to their rescue. In grand, powerful and definitive terms,
the rescuer will bring an end to the oppressors. So this
passage was included in the Gospel to help the Christians,
who were being persecuted, to have hope. The Book of
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time of extreme persecution as well. The apocalyptic form
still happens; people often speak of a greater power that will
vanquish their foes. So, Jesus tells his disciples, in apoca-
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we will know God's presence when extraordinary things,
like the sun darkening, happen? One of our principles of
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no longer limited to the extraordinary; in fact, it is in the
very ordinary circumstances of our lives in which God
draws us close. Learn a lesson from the ordinary fig tree,
Jesus says in this same gospel. In Palestine, quite a few
of the trees stayed green year round. The fig tree was an
exception in that it lost its leaves but grew new ones in the
spring. It was easy to tell then, when a fig tree was going
to produce fruit because the leaves came first. What can
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indeed come, but they require us to grow now. The fruit
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of our faith without investing ourselves into it now. For
Jesus, faith was a matter of right now. When something is
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and caution of Jesus for what they are. We are not to try
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Dangerous Garden Snakes
A couple of friends in Texas still correspond with me
and keep me posted about interesting "stuff" that keeps
happening down there since I left. One of them sent me
this story just before Thanksgiving.
It seems that a couple in Sweetwater, Texas were bring-
ing some potted plants into the house to keep them from
freezing during a cold snap. In the warm house, a little
garden snake slithered out of one of the pots and went
under the sofa. When the wife saw it, she panicked and
let out a piercing scream. Her husband, who was taking a
shower by then, ran in wet and naked to protect her from
whatever. When she told him there was a snake under the
sofa, he got down on his hands and knees to look for it.
About that time the family dog ran in and poked his cold
nose into his bare behind. Thinking the snake had bitten
him, the heroic husband screamed, tripped over the dog
and fell hard on the floor. His wife, thinking he might
have had a heart attack, covered him up and told him to
lie still while she called an ambulance.
The ambulance arrived quickly, and the attendants,
ignoring the man's protests, loaded him on the stretcher
and began carrying him out. Just then the snake came
out from under the sofa. When the emergency medical
technician saw it, he dropped his end of the stretcher.
That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in
the local hospital there. The wife still had an unwanted
snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor and got
him to volunteer to capture the snake. He rolled up a
newspaper and poked around under the sofa for awhile
before deciding it had escaped. He left and the woman
sat down on the sofa in relief. But, as her fingers dangled
between the cushions, she felt the snake wriggling around.
She screamed again and fainted as the snake rushed back
under the sofa. The helpful neighbor rushed back in, and
seeing her lying there, began CPR to revive her. The
neighbor's wife, returning from a shopping trip to the
grocery store, came over to see what was going on, and
when she saw her husband leaning over the woman,
mouth to mouth, she slammed him on the head with a
bag of canned goods, knocked him out and went home..
Stitches were required. That's why he found it necessary
to visit the hospital later. When the woman awoke from
her dead faint, she saw her neighbor lying on the floor and
assumed the snake had bitten him. She ran to the kitchen
and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it
down the man's throat.
By then, the police arrived, and seeing the unconscious
man smelling of whiskey, they assumed he was drunk, and
a fight had occurred. As they were about to arrest them all,
the woman tried to explain what had happened because
of a little garden snake. But, just as the policemen heard,
"snake", it crawled out from under the sofa again, and one
of the policemen drew his gun and shot at it. He missed
the snake, but shot the leg off of a table causing it and a
lamp to fall over. When the lamp shattered, the bulb broke
and started a fire in the nearby drapes. As the policemen
tried to beat out the flames, one of them fell through the
window and landed on the family dog. The startled dog
ran out into the street where an oncoming car swerved to
avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Seeing the fire, neighbors called the fire department. As
firemen came down the street, they raised a ladder that
tore out overhead wires, put out power, and disconnected
telephones in a ten-square city block area. (But, they did
get the house.fire out.)
At this time, both men have been discharged from the
hospital, the house is being repaired, the dog came home,
the police car is to be replaced, and all is again right with
their world.
I'm told another cold snap is predicted, and that exasper-
ated husband has told his wife if she suggests bringing
in the plants, he will shoot her. It seems life sure hasn't
settled down much since I've left there.
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