A few days ago I received an e-mail with instructions for my job as an election clerk - in Fairfax County, Virginia. It told me when to report, what to do, and told me that I would receive $50 for working half a day at the polls in November. I replied that I could not afford to drive there for just $50 and that I was already serving as Judge of Elections here in Pennsylvania. I also suggested that they check their e-mail address.
Every few weeks I receive messages like this for somebody else - get well wishes, announcements, bills, shipment notices, plans to visit us, etc. Once I even received someone's password for a porn site. Then, a few hours later, I received an e-mail from this guy's wife telling the husband that she was looking forward to being with him tonight. So, I passed the information about the site on to her. I often wonder what happened after she received it.
All of these wrong e-mails come to me because somebody probably forgot to add a required number or a letter to DBLK. And, what a difference that missing letter or number makes. And folks are careless with their e-mail addresses. We invite parents in Awana to join an Awana e-mail mailing list to receive announcements about Awana. About 20% of those that we receive are either incorrect or can't be read because of their carelessness.
This all reminds me of one of my favorite stories. A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida for a long winter weekend to thaw out. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years ago.
Because both had jobs they found it difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. It was decided that he would fly to Florida on Thursday and his wife would join him on Friday.
Upon arriving, the husband sent his wife an e-mail back to her in Minneapolis. But he missed a letter in her address and didn't realize his error.
In Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral. The husband had been a minister for many years and was called home to glory after a heart attack. The widow checked her e-mail for messages. Upon reading the first one, she fainted. Her son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the message on the computer screen. It read, To: My Loving Wife Subject: I've Arrived. I know you are surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send e-mails to loved ones. I've just arrived and checked in. Everything is prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. It sure is hot down here!
So be very careful about using e-mail addresses!
So be very careful about using e-mail addresses!
1. Lord, I care not for riches, neither silver nor gold;
I would make sure of Heaven, I would enter the fold.
In the book of Thy kingdom, with its pages so fair,
Tell me, Jesus, my Savior, is my name written there?
Is my name written there,
On the page white and fair?
In the book of Thy kingdom,
Is my name written there?
2. Lord, my sins they are many, like the sands of the sea,
But Thy blood, O my Savior, is sufficient for me;
For Thy promise is written, in bright letters that glow,
"Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them like snow."
Is my name written there,
On the page white and fair?
In the book of Thy kingdom,
Is my name written there?
3. Oh! that beautiful city, with its mansions of light,
With its glorified beings, in pure garments of white;
Where no evil thing cometh to despoil what is fair;
Where the angels are watching, yes, my name's written there.
Yes my name's written there,
On the page white and fair?
In the book of Thy kingdom,
Yes my name's written there?
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