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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Having to pay 27 cents for a cup of water Because of my intoler ance of caffeine in cof fee and tea, I often order water when I go to a restaurant. There has never been any charge reflected on my bill for water. I also have ordered water at McDonald’s and wasn't charged. Recently, however, Beverly and I stopped at the Dairy Queen in Byron and ordered two milkshakes. I asked if I could also have a small cup of water. The clerk told me there would be a charge of 27 cents. Heck, I could get a senior Being stabilized in the faith With this writing corties memories of two special friends who were Stabilized in the faith. Both were true witnesses as they fotight, and even tually surrendered to their battles with cancer. Margaret Newton did not have cancel’ at the time she inspired this sharing. She simply felt the symptoms of a com mon cold sneaking up on her. The other friend, Joan Haz e n , had con- Earline Cole Reflections quered a bout with a com mon cold approximately the same time of Margaret’s ailment. Jban’s physician advised her to soak her feet in cold water. Margaret lis tened patiehtly as I rattled on, telling her of the advice given to Joan and suggest- Church Briefs ‘The Love Liner’ Auditions for “The Love Liner,’ a musical by Jeff Smith and Ralph Neumann will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday arid Sept. 15 at the International City Church of God, 2520 Moody Road, Warner Robins. The dinner theatre performance, direct ed by Paula Day Johns, will be at 7 p.m.* Oct. 6 and 7. The play, Which deals with good neighbors lending a helping hand on a cruise ship, requires a cast of five men and seven women with ability to sing. Those trying out should bring their own sheet music to the audition. For more information, call 923-6176. Celebrate recovery at Unity Need helb for a hurt, hang-up or habit? Celebrate Recovery meeting are at Unity Baptist Church of Bonaire every Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. Children’s tupct? ct?D\,'Tre nnntrmt?DC If I 1 rIESE bbKVICE FKUVIDEKb I I I / , HAVE SPONSORED THIS f g C L 7 I 4 —** Church & Kell gion page Siipport Your Pagc""<L 3Hv Calling 478-987-1823! H CLOCK REPAIR 26 Year* Experience House Calls Only FACTORY WARRANTY FOR HOWARD Mllliß W-WhSZOOi 'Hew &Cea*ten& <ws :MI 736 Main Street Perry, Georgia 31069 Jackie » Terry Mullis 987-1965 000375421 drink at McDonald’s for that amount of money, and I thought the charge was improper, so I decided I didn’t need the water after all.. Water is essential to life on earth. While we can live more than a month without food, we can’t live more than a week without water. A human baby is 75 percent water and an adult is 65 percent water. Older members of our society are about 50 percent water, which gives rise to the theory that people might live longer and remain healthier ing that she give the remedy a try. When Margaret finally got a chance to squeeze in her thoughts, she calmly spoke. “I have a question I’d like her to get answered for me. Have her to ask what Margaret can do.” Silence stilled the room for a moment then the state ment was repeated. “Have her ask what Margaret can do.” I was puzzled over the statement but agreed to check with Joan as to what Margaret could do. Margaret’s next statement made me feel like I should be soaking my head in hot water, though that was far from her intentions. “Have her ask what Margaret can do,” she said. “Tell her that Margaret has no feet.” My lack of consideration was inexcusable. Grasping for words, an attempt was made to apologize. However, Margaret being the person she was, required no apol ogy. The fact that Margaret program is available. Unity Baptist is located at 79 Highway 96, between Houston Lake Road and Moody Road. For informa tion call 922-0063. Aglow International Aglow International’s Macon Community Lighthouse will present Dr. Linda Touchton with a message on “Transition and Change” on Saturday at the Baptist Village Assisted Living Facility, 6000 Plantation Way, Macon (Located behind Wal-Mart on Zebulon Road). Fellowship and refreshment begin 9:30 a.m. The program begins at 10 a.m. Dress is casual. All are welcome. For more informa tion contact Yvonne Abney at 475-9996 or Debora Evans at 935-8158 Ladies Night Out Bonaire First Baptist WARNER ROBINS SUPPLY OF PERRY We Rent! 612 Ball St. Perry, GA 987-2334 > « £m6uH*U%if • 478-988-2448 740 Main Street Perry GA 31069 Online www.sewingbees.com by drinking more water. Physicians urge people com- plaining with back trouble to drink more water to keep the spi nal disks hydrated. Water even helps us to ' m Billy Powell Columnist think: Our brains are 75 percent water. Over the span of a normal lifetime, we use about 16,000 gallons of water. Brushing had no feet was not shock ing news to me. We had been very close friends for a num ber of years. With my blun der came the realization of how easily her “handicap” could be disregarded. Being without legs was no hand icap at all to this devout Christian. The loss of her legs did not leave Margaret incomplete. Walking daily with Christ, “rooted and built up in Him, stabilized in the faith” and abounding with thanksgiv ing, she was a completely whole person. (Reference Colossians 2: 6 & 7) Margaret Newton was a wife, mother, homemaker and Christian Radio Station WAVC employee. She was actively involved in church work and an inde pendent bilateral amputee who made her way around on artificial limbs. She was a shining example of a complete being . . . so complete in Christ that a physical loss never dis tracted from her Christian stability. Church will host a Ladies Night Out on Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be Bobbie McCoy with music by Deborah Waters Stevens. Dinner choices are grilled grouper or smoked chicken. Tickets are $lO. For tick ets or more information, call 922-1924, or visit the church’s Web site at www. bonairefbc.com. Used toys needed J.C. and Becky Stevens, plan to come to Georgia on Oct. 10 to pick used toys up for distribution in the Appalachian area. They do not expect new toys and do not ask for mon etary contributions. Please bring used toys to 203 Fourth Street, Bonaire, by Wednesday, October 4. Some toys have already been deliv ered to the pick-up location. Call 923-9731f0r more infor mation. Perry Antiques Mall \ Perry, GA 31069 \ to Perry Animal Hospital s 478-987-8775 &NGC perryantiques@alltel.net # ® l#lZ * "vyrjT' Serving Houston County Perry • Warner Robins Member FDIC cmr Bank of Middle Georgia LOCAL our teeth requires an aver age of two gallons a day. Thirty gallons are required to take a shower. Flushing the toilet uses four gallons. Although 80 percent of the earth is covered with water, it is estimated that 1.2 bil lion people, or one of every five people in the world, are without access to safe drink ing water - pollution being the major culprit. With the earth’s popu lation growing, we must become better caretakers of our water supply or we will one day face a major water crisis. Strong-willed daughter tests patience of parents QUESTION: My wife and I have a strong willed child who is incredibly difficult to handle. I honestly believe we are doing our job about as well as any parents could do under the circumstanc es, yet she still breaks the rules and challenges our authority. I guess I need some encourage ment. First, tell me if an especially strong willed kid can be made to smile, give, work and cooperate. If so, how is that accomplished? And second, what is my daughter’s future? I see trouble ahead, but don’t know if that gloomy forecast is justified. DR. DOBSON: There is no question about it, an especially willful child such as yours can be difficult to manage even when her par ents handle her with great skill and dedication. It may take several years to bring her to a point of relative obedience and cooperation within the family unit, but it will happen. While this training pro gram is in progress, it is important not to panic. Don’t try to complete the transformation overnight. Treat your child with sin cere love and dignity, but require her to follow your leadership. Choose carefully the mat ters that are worthy of con frontation, then accept her challenge on those issues and win decisively. Reward every positive, cooperative gesture she makes by offering your attention, affection and verbal praise. Then take two aspirin and call me in the morning. QUESTION: As an advocate of spankings as a disciplinary tool, don’t you worry about the possibility that you might be contributing to the incidence of child abuse in this country? DR. DOBSON: Yes, I do LllH ne ’’ t/PERRY FLORIST 734 Main Street Perry, Georgia 31069 987-1656 800-516-1004 1812 II.S. 41N. Perry, GA 987-1112 Qv&CE 3VS FIoonngAMBMCA 00037531 100037530 Water is mentioned very prominently in the Bible: The creation of the earth, the dividing of the Red Sea, Jesus turning the water into wine, and Jesus calming the storm at sea, to mention a few. When Jesus asked the Samaritan woman at the well for a drink of water, she asked why a Jew would make a request of a hated Samaritan. Jesus said, “If you knew who it is that says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” worry about that. One of my frustrations in teaching parents has been the diffi culty in achieving a balance between permissiveness and oppression. The tendency is to drift toward one extreme or another. Let it never be said that I favor harshness of any kind with children. It can wound the spirit and inflict perma nent scars on the psyche. No subject distresses M Dr. James Dobson Focus on the Family children are being commit ted day after day. It is hard to believe justhow cruel some moth ers and fathers can be to defenseless, wide-eyed kids who don’t understand why they are hated. I remember the ter rible father who regularly wrapped his small son’s head in the sheet that the boy had wet the night before. Then he crammed the tot upside down into the toi let bowl for punishment. I also think of the disturbed mother who cut out her child’s eyes with a razor blade. That little girl will be blind throughout her life, knowing that her own mother deprived her of sight! Unthinkable acts like these are occurring every day in cities and towns around us. In fact, it is highly prob able that a youngster living within a mile or two of your house is experiencing abuse in one manner or another. Brian G. Fraser, attorney for the National Center for Renry lißugiGftmnany Friendly. Professional Sendee HI 7' W Ben Bartlett & Hubert Bennett, M"t /MMgggt Awt Acctptrt 1036 MACON Rl). • PERRY, GA 988-1144 00037545 Arnold's Auto Servic 1202 Main St. Perry, Ga. 31069 Complete Car Maintenance Pick-up & Delivery “Road Servi Call Thomas Call ( 987-9439 DC FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 < The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get the living water? Are you greater than out father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Whosoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him wifi become in him a foun tain of water springing up into everlasting life.” Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, has written: “Child abuse... once thought to be primar ily a problem of the poor and downtrodden ... occurs in every segment of society and may be the country’s leading cause of death in children.” Let me say with the stron gest emphasis that aggres sive, hard nosed, “Mommie Dearest” kinds of discipline are destructive to kids and must not be tolerated. Given the scope of the tragedy we are facing, the last thing I want to do is to provide a rationalization and justification for it. I don’t believe in harsh disci pline, even when it is well intentioned. Children must be given room to breathe and grow and love. But there are also harmful circumstances at the permissive end of the spectrum, and many par ents fall into one trap in an earnest attempt to avoid the other. Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444, Colorado Springs, CO. 80903; or www.family. org. Questions and answers are excerpted from “The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House. me more than the phenom en o n of child abuse. There are mil lions of families out there in which crimes against YOURADGOULD i BE HERE! U~flßp ett y or film LONGHORN BUTCHER SHOP Your Hometown Butcher Since 1976 1207 Sunset A>e. • Per ry I’la/a Pern, (i A 31069 100037544 Let* Lasseter 478-987-5711 Greer Lasseter Tjk 1 THE BANK fly OF PERRY Please worship at the church of your choice 1006 Main St. • Perry 987-2552 Member FDIC 3B 00037539 100037528