Oppressing the Poor

Oppressing the Poor

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

(Proverbs  22:16 - The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44, 12 October)

Dick Henthorn

31 May 2020

Giving

Giving is the secret of a healthy life - not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding.

(John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Especially For You, 17 March)

30 January 2016

Give It!

... there are  ... [many] ways to practice sacrificial love: listening, helping, encouraging, giving! Think of someone in particular who needs this kind of love today -- and give it!
(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 26 September)

When you feel grateful for something others have done for you, why not tell them about it?
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 25 December)
23 July 2015

Giving

Giving frees us from a vicious struggle for possessions and from a debilitating preoccupation with calculating how to gather more material things for our own use.
(Joan Dargatz, 52 Simple Ways To Give Your Spiritual Life A Lift, p. 95)

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I've been working on a genealogy project to extract some records from a GEDCOM file. The source file needs extensive edits before copying the information into my own genealogy file. I got so wrapped up in this project I lost interest in posting to any of my blogs for several days.  It takes discipline and dedication to blog on a regular basis.

Dick Henthorn

11 November 2014

Generosity

To cultivate the quality of generosity in your life, do the following:

1. Be grateful for whatever you have.
2. Put people first.
3. Don't allow the desire for possessions to control you.
4. See money as a resource.
5. Develop the habit of giving.

The only way to maintain an attitude of generosity is to make it your habit to give:

• your time
• attention
• money
• resources.

(John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 21 January)

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I'm making good progress on the project to learn how to use my new FreePages account on RootsWeb. Yesterday I modified the HTML that I use at the top and bottom of each webpage to bring it up-to-date and make it work with FreePages URLs.  The next step is to select an old file that I want to share, make the necessary modifications and upload it to my FreePages.  Stay tuned for further progress reports.

Mr. Dickie

21 January 2013

Silent Giving

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy, and laughter.  This kind of silent giving is very powerful. (Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, p. 32-3)

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Last night and this morning I created some new YouTube playlists.

Google Sites

Roy Orbison

Jackie Evancho

This morning I signed up for the "free" Plaxo address file.  This works with the Avery/Dennison label site.  I don't want to wait until Christmas season to start planning how I am going to create address labels.

Mr. Dickie

21 February 2012

Watching Sports on My Computer

... I can do a great deal to improve my life by rooting out my own shortcomings. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 10 June)

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. (Joseph Chilton Pearce in The Promise Of A New Day by Casey and Vanceburg, 3 August)

... none of us is too poor to give love, respect, attention, encouragement, time, caring, assistance, compassion. (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 22 August)

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Yesterday my neighbor Jim and I learned how to watch tennis and Little League Baseball using ESPN 3 on our laptop computers. I even got the Picture-In-A-Picture to work. All very cool.

Mr. Dickie

28 August 2011

Giving

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.
(Henry Ward Beecher)