Honey

Sweeter than Honey

Almost everyone likes honey. Honey has been used throughout the history of man. It is a great food source. It acts as an antibiotic. It can help heal wounds. Children who eat honey from the area where they live will rarely have allergies to the local pollen.

But the most common way honey is used is as a sweetener. It can be put on bread. It can be mixed with butter. It can be added to food mixes. Some people just like to dip their finger in it and lick it off. The honeycomb is highly prized and is chewed as a sweet treat.

Throughout history man has hunted and searched for wild honey sources. But man has also farmed honey for thousands of years. Great effort has gone into figuring out how to best take care of bees in artificial hives. All of this because honey is such a wonderful sweet food.

But there is something that everyone should desire even more than honey. Psalm 119:103, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” The writer of Psalm 119 said God’s word was sweeter to him than honey.

So many people think it is a drudgery to study God’s word. Many avoid the Bible, as if it were something that would hurt them. Many think it is silly to read God’s word. But anyone who has really spent time studying it, has found it to be extremely good for their life. It is wonderful spiritual food. It will act as a spiritual antibiotic to help overcome spiritual evils. It aids in healing spiritual wounds. It is sweet to ‘chew on’ or just to dip one’s mind in.

Read your Bible. Learn all you can from God’s word. And if any of this is hard to understand, ask an adult to help you.

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Beauty

Think a beautiful thought. Feel a beautiful feeling.

Beauty feels good for a reason. It connects you to life's best possibilities.

Beauty is truth expressed in a way that cannot be doubted or denied. Beauty can comfort, heal, calm and inspire.

Beauty is a precious gift. Beauty is always there when you choose to experience it.

Take time to enjoy the beauty that is present in every detail. Savor the beauty in ordinary moments, and you'll keep discovering even more.

Allow the beauty that is, to touch you and transform you. Give life to beauty, and you give much beauty to life.

Quotes about Beauty:
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Judging

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

• The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. 
• The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
• The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
• The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.

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Never Judge Anyone By Appearance

One beautiful spring day a red rose blossomed in a forest. Many kinds of trees and plants grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine tree nearby said, "What a beautiful flower. I wish I was that lovely."

Another tree said, "Dear pine, do not be sad, we can not have everything."

The rose turned its head and remarked, "It seems that I am the most beautiful plant in this forest." A sunflower raised its yellow head and asked, "Why do you say that? In this forest there are many beautiful plants. You are just one of them."

The red rose replied, "I see everyone looking at me and admiring me." Then the rose looked at a cactus and said, "Look at that ugly plant full of thorns!" The pine tree said, "Red rose, what kind of talk is this? Who can say what beauty is you have thorns too."

The proud red rose looked angrily at the pine and said, "I thought you had good taste! You do not know what beauty is at all. You can not compare my thorns to that of the cactus."

What a proud flower, thought the trees.

The rose tried to move its roots away from the cactus, but it could not move. As the days passed, the red rose would look at the cactus and say insulting things, like "This plant is useless. How sorry I am to be his neighbor."

The cactus never got upset and he even tried to advise the rose, saying, "God did not create any form of life without a purpose."

Spring passed, and the weather became very warm. Life became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water and no rain fell. The red rose began to wilt. One day the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed.

This was puzzling, and the red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that "the birds got water from the cactus." "Does it not hurt when they make holes?" asked the rose.

"Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any birds suffer," replied the pine.

The rose opened its eyes in wonder and said, "The cactus has water." "Yes you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help."

The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the cactus for help. The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with water and watered the rose's roots.

Thus the rose learned a lesson and never judged anyone by their appearance again.  

America The Beautiful

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A question about where are the best cookbooks led me to these places. Their chief resource is the Internet.

• www.smoking-meat.com
• www.smokingpit.com
• www.amazingribs.com
• www.smokingmeatforums.com
• Plus websites of various smoker manufacturers. 

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It was challenging to get some of the "threes" to cooperate and "pose" for the pictures!