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Friday, December 11,2015
Lake Oconee News
Page B7
For Heaven's Sake
Mike Morgan, Pastor • First United Methodist Church of Greensboro
A View from Main Street
We were gratified by the
news that former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter is can
cer-free.
Likewise, we have a
10-year-old boy on our
prayer list who suffered
from a particularly perni
cious cancer - and he is now
cancer-free.
In 1980 my father was
diagnosed with esophageal
cancer, after a lifetime of
cigar smoking, and given
three months to live. Dad
lived, and lived well, for
seven years - and died of
congestive heart failure.
While I can’t speak for the
10-year-old boy, my father
maintained an infectiously
cheerful spirit throughout
those seven years. Likewise,
President Carter has been
cheerfully and prayerfully
building Habitat for Hum-
naity houses all over the
country.
I don’t know why some
people survive cancer and
other diseases and other
people don’t - but I can
speak from my experience
of having recovered from a
Jim
Choomack
PASTOR, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH GREENSBORO
catastrophic injury to my
spinal cord, that cheerful
ness, laughter and a sense of
future mission has brought
me far beyond what was
expected and predicted.
Norman Cousins
was editor of the Satur
day Review for 30 years and
wrote of his self-treatment
with humor in the New
England Journal of Med
icine in 1976, after he had
been diagnosed with a pain
ful, life-threatening form of
arthritis called ankylosing
spondylitis.
Doctors gave him little
chance of recovery, so he
left the hospital, checked
into a hotel, took huge doses
of vitamin C and watched
Marx Brothers films and
TV sitcoms, finding that
10 minutes of belly laugh
ter allowed him two hours
of pain-free sleep.
Eventually he recovered
and wrote several books on
humor and healing, most
notably his best-selling
book, Anatomy of an Illness
as Described by the Patient,
inspiring medical research
into the place of emotions
in the healing process.
I repeat: I don’t know
why some people live and
some people die, but I know
that a cheerful spirit, a lot
of prayer and unabashed
laughter has a profound
effect on our bodies.
God’s ways are indeed
mysterious, but I believe
with all my heart that
He placed within us and
around us the means of
healing. We will never
know what tomorrow will
bring - but we know Who
is there!
Christmas memories leave
a significant imprint
The Christmas season is
in full bloom. Decorations
are up, colorful lights spar
kle in neighborhoods and
Christmas songs fill the
airways. Jesus and Santa
vie for attention.
Christmas holidays past
and present are impact
ful. Holiday memories are
some of the most basic and
powerful of your existence.
Holidays are about family -
the starting point and most
important influencers of
who you are as a person.
Family experiences, and
their consequent memo
ries, are extremely impact
ful on your emotional life.
Dr. John
Stathas
Columnist
They dramatically affect
how you experience the
holidays year after year.
Also, holiday emotions are
the “tip of the iceberg” for
related emotions affecting
your life even when you
do not know it. Emotions
are the primary energy
of interpersonal relation
ships.
Ask yourself, what is your
gut feeling about the holi
days.
Are they feelings of joy
and excitement or of mel
ancholy and depression?
Do you want to celebrate or
isolate?
Perhaps they are a period
of blocked feelings.
If you are a person who
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“The Eyes Have It”
Across
I Treasury
6 Small woods
II Swindle
14 Gulf ship
15 Looks out for, maybe
16 Be in the red
17 Damsel’s rescuer
19 Unfamiliar
20 Young fellow
21 Dirty coat
22 Writer Hemingway
24 Ten-gallon hat
26 “That tastes awful!”
27 Slippery sort
28 Convertible sofas
31 French mothers
34 Dwarf
35 Auto club letters
36 Unbending
37 Dilutes
38 1700 in letters
39 Maximum
40 Peter, Paul or Mary
41 Court events
42 Mouth-watering
44 “The Thin Man” costar
Myrna
45 Barbecue fuel
46 Not terminal
50 Igloo dweller
52 Stable color
53 In the open
54 Holtz of ESPN
55 “The Good Apprentice”
novelist
58 Shelley work
59 Moxie
60 Navel variety
61 One of the Bobbsey
twins
62 Proficient
63 More like Solomon
Down
1 Monastery garb
2 Drum kit component
3 Drop
4 Hardened
5 Locks
6 Religious law
7 Passing mention?
8 Dowel
9 Washington erupter of
1980
10 Band that backs
Springsteen
11 Classic “S.N.L.” charac
ters
12 Has a mortgage
13 Former Speaker Ging
rich
18 & The Gang (R.
&B. group)
23 Kindergarten break
25 One nearing adulthood
26 Not mincing words
28 Police operation
29 Contest of speed
30 Anatomical pouches
31 Jazz vibraphonist Jack-
son
32 New York canal
33 “Love’s Been Good to
Me” composer
34 Lower leg parts
37 Like a well-fitting suit
38 Poet Angelou
40 Marathoner’s need
41 Tight-aginst-the-scalp
braid
43 Hawaiian dish
44 Hilo feast
46 Member of Santa’s
team
47 Sends packing
48 Desi’s daughter
49 The wild blue yonder
50 North Carolina school
51 Fountain order
52 Common request
56 Outrage
57 SADD focus
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“Where two or three are
gathered in my name, I am
there among them.”
- Matthew 18:20
Sunday Worship
at 10:00 a.m.
Brunch served the first Sunday of each month.
405 North Jefferson Avenue • Eatonton, GA
706-968-0035 • 404-210-4979
www.episcopalchurch-eatonton.org
J Lake Point
Community) Church
“Pointing People to a Life Changing Connection in Jesus Christ”
Now Two Locations
940 Harmony Rd., Eatonton (706) 923-0014
260 W. Washington St., Madison
www.lakepoint.ee
Pastor - Rob Raynor
| Associate Pastors - Kevin Magness & Danny Harrell
Lakepoint is a Bible based and Christ centered non-denominational church
that blends contemporary & traditional worship and ministries together.
Service Times
9:30 & 11am Harmony Rd Campus Ham Madison Campus
Lake Oconee Lutheran Church
A Stephen Ministry Congregation
Pastor Andrew L. Schroeder
lolcsec@plantationcable.net
(706) 485-4600, Office
1089 Lake Oconee Parkway (Hwy 44)
Located directly behind Harmony Association Building
Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m.
www.lolc.info
One Church
Two Campuses
All on the Same Page
South Campus
4741 Carey Station Rd.
9:15 AM
Two Sunday Worship Services
Sunday School for All Ages
Nursery provided.
Chancel & Bell Choirs
Children/Youth Ministries
Bible Studies
706-453-7064
www.fumcgreensboro.org
North Campus
202 West Broad St.
11:00 AM
Eatonton First United Methodist Church
N. Jefferson at Magnolia St. • Eatonton • 706-485-5871
Rev. Dave Hinson, pastor
Sunday Morning Worship Services:
8:45 am Traditional Worship
Historic Sanctuary on N. Madison Ave.
11 am Traditional Worship
Great Hall on Jefferson Street
(Nursery Provided)
All Sunday School Classes Meet at 10:00 am.
Monday 7 pm - Sonday on Munday
Live Praise Band
Wednesday Night Family Supper 5:45 pm
6:30 - 7:30 pm Family Activities
All are welcome!
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Sunday Worship
9:30 a.m. - At the LOCC
1001 Village Park Dr.
Greensboro, GA
PASTOR TEAM
Avis Williams
Becky Matheny
David W. Key, Sr.
Gary W. Arnold
WWW.locc.CO 706.347.0480
Church as you know it can be!
Wednesdays
5:15 p.m. - Family Night Supper
Children & Adult Bible Study
Dr. Keithen Tucker - Pastor
Sundays:
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School
10:50 a.m. - Worship
First Baptist Church
115 Madison Avenue • Eatonton, Ga
706.485.3331
www.FirstBaptistEatonton.org
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