Sherri's Page

LAUGH---what a interesting concept in our world today.  With all of the stress, the long to-do lists, the physical aches and pains of a very overloaded day, sometimes we forget to laugh.  When Joe and I started dating, he made me laugh---thata was one of the things that was so much fun about our relationship---I thought he was funny and he thought I was funny.   Then, I went through a very dark valley and laughter was nowhere in sight.  Like all valleys, eventually we come up and in the last couple of months, I have seen the light and the dark has lifted.   Recently, I have made it a priority to laugh.  A couple of months ago, I began to read a book written by Suzanne Sommers on hormones and the changes that women go through.  At the beginning of every chapter, there is a 2 line saying that is hilarious.  Joe and I sat on the front porch one morning and I read these out loud.  We belly-laughed for 2 hours.  It was then that I realized how much I needed laughter!!! 

Sometimes, we have to seek "after laughter!!"  I have found some great jokes on www.cleanjokes.com.   and other websites that offer clean jokes.  I copy them, put them in a word document, and share them with anybody that will listen.  It has been really fun, and lifts the stress of life, if only for a moment.  I think we should share our laughter.  I will be putting funny jokes on my page regularly and I would like you to share with me your laughing moments.  You can send them by email at sherri@drelrod.org or you can go to our "Contact Us" page and at the bottom of the page, send me your jokes through the comment block. 

Barbara Johnson is one of my favorite women to read.  She is a speaker with the "Women of Faith" Retreats that have been going on for many years in large cities.  I have been to several of these events, and besides receiving tremendous spiritual blessings, I have had great fun at their personalities and their desire to make women laugh.  All of these ladies are so funny.  Well, Barbara Johnson has written several books, and I will quote sayings straight from her from time to time.  She has walked through some dark valleys and is very realistic about life.  The Lord has given her an ability and a gift of sharing with women and being very vulnerable about her journey.  I like to read her books because she is REAL!!  She doesn't just say everything is rosy and those who struggle just need to get over it.  She acknowledges the pains and heartaches, struggles and disappointments.  Many times there is not a "pat" answer for what we are going through, but there is Someone to hold on to---The Lord who loves us and will never leave us.  It is good, also, that the Lord gives us other people to walk with and struggle with.  We need each other---we all need a support structure to be a central part of our existence.  The Lord did not make us islands to be off by ourselves.  But instead, He said "It is not good for man to be alone."

So, let's lean on each other and learn to LAUGH!!

Here's one for you---

Suicidal Grandma

 Aging Mildred was a 93 year-old woman who was particularly despondent over the recent death of her husband Earl. She decided that she would just kill herself and join him in death. Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart since it was so badly broken in the first place.

Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly where the heart would be. "On a woman," the doctor said, "your heart would be just below your left breast." 

Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee.

THANKFUL PRAYER

 Lord, I just want to say THANK YOU, because this morning I woke up and knew where my children were. Because this morning my home was still standing, because this morning I am not crying because my husband, my child, my brother or sister needs to be buried out from underneath a pile of concrete, because this morning I was able to drink a glass of water, because this morning I was able to turn on the light, because this morning I was able to take a shower, because this morning I was not planning a funeral, but most of all I thank you this morning because I still have life and a voice to cry out for the people of Haiti. Lord I cry out to you, the one that makes the impossible, possible, the one that turns darkness in to light, I cry out that you give those mothers strength, that you give them peace that surpasses all understanding, that you may open the streets so that help can come, that you may provide doctors, nurses, food, water, and all that they need in a blink of an eye. For all those that have lost family members, give them peace, give them hope, give them courage to continue to go on! Protect the children and shield them with your power. I pray all this in the name of Jesus!!!