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It’s hard to
believe that it is almost summer time! How quickly time flies.
Summer means different things to different individuals.
For students summer is a time for a well deserved
break. For outdoorsmen it is a time to enjoy Gods creation.
For most it’s a chance at having a holiday.
Holidays are fun! I remember the excitement in our home when we
announced our family vacation plans to our children when they
were small. Today with teenagers we continue to enjoy precious
family memories surrounding our vacation times.
Holidays are a break from the normal routine, we stay
up late, sleep in and eat at odd times.
Unfortunately our finances lose their routine as well.
So many people today struggle financially after their holidays.
For those who do not plan ahead, the holidays can be a
time of over spending. In
Genesis 41-42 Joseph taught the people to put away some of
their crops now so they will have it in the future.
Why not try this concept for your next vacations.
For example, you could start now by taking $50 a pay
and putting it away for your holidays. Once you have started your savings plan determine how much
you will have saved by the time you plan to start your next
vacation.
Determine by God’s help that you will only spend the amount you have
saved. It might
mean being creative! But think of the freedom you will
experience after your holiday with no debt!
Enjoy your Holiday!
If
99.9 percent is good enough, then...
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Two million
documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
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811,000 faulty
rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.
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22,000 checks will
be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60
minutes.
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1,314 phone calls
will be misplaced by telecommunication services every
minute.
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12 babies will be
given to the wrong parents each day.
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268,500 defective
tires will be shipped this year.
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14,208 defective
personal computers will be shipped this year.
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103,260 income tax
returns will be process incorrectly this year.
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2,488,200 books
will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong
cover.
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5,517,200 cases of
soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter
than a bad tire.
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Two plane landings
daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be
unsafe.
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3,056 copies of
tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the
three sections.
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18,322 pieces of
mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
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291 pacemaker
operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
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880,000 credit
cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect
cardholder information on their magnetic strips.
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$9,690 will be
spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the
future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
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55 malfunction
automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12
months.
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20,000 incorrect
drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
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114,500 mismatched
pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
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$761,900 will be
spent in the next 12 months on tapes and compact discs
that won't play.
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107 incorrect
medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day
today.
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315 entries in
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the
English Language will turn out to be misspelled.
InSight,
Syncrude Canada Ltd., Communications Division Communicator, p.
6.
We
can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
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