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Show the lAuGhiNg pOiNa: TOMATOES When windows and doors close on you it could be that God has a bigger ship -with bigger cargo-- for you elsewhere. Sometimes you get your heart set on where you think you are supposed to be, what you are supposed to be doing or even who you are supposed to be with. And when that doesn't come to fruition you fret, don't understand, maybe take up an addiction or two or even curse God. You might think your prayers aren't being answered when indeed they truly are. God knows what is best for you. Not you. But you have to listen and see what He's unfolding for you. After all, said a friend of mine, "To have something prepared and gifted and not use it would be prideful." Think about that. So, what is God preparing you for? What windows and doors is He opening for you? And which ones' have you been trying to barge through or unbolt? He really makes it easy. Sometimes, though, it is us who make it difficult. Job said, from the Bible in the Old Testament, "If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice." [See Job 9:16]. Have you ever been like Job, where you might not exercise your faith enough or even trust that God would answer you? God does answer. He knows what's best. He is all powerful. He is all knowing. We've got to give Him a little more credit, after all He's been around for awhile and more importantly, He sacrificed His life for us. He's here to help, guide and lead us, not hinder us. Sometimes we worry what others will think more than what God thinks. Then our focus is taken off of God's plan for us and on something irrelevant like others thoughts of us a.m./ qsaueo Redo/a at Fishlake Restaurant Hours Mon through Sat: 7am - 9pm Sundays: 7am - 8pm Call 638-1040 for more info www.boweryhaven.com which we can't control anyway. Look, if you haven't figured it out by now, people are going to talk about you. They are, they have, they will. There I said it. Now, get over it. Remember; how you react to what people say is what is going to set you apart and either sustain or break you. Why spend time on something you can't control? Plus, spending time on the latter takes you away from God's plan for you and Him using you on His team where you will create and do great things for Him. In John 8:3 we read, ".that the works of God should be made manifest in him." [See the New Testament in the Bible]. What works of God are being manifest in you? God's got a plan for all of us. The real question is are you accepting it and running with it or rejecting it and ignoring it. Two choices. One answer. One God. And you. Anything's possible. No, nothing's impossible. Even a bigger ship with bigger cargo. I'm on board, how about you? Cynthia Kimball Humphreys is a professional speaker and trainer through her company EverylCounts, LLC. She writes a column for weeklies in southern Utah and is a southern Utah correspondent for the Deseret News. Her column, "EverylCounts," appears on deseretnews. com . E-mail: kimball@every 1 counts .net. SPECIAL YOUTH UPLAND GAME HUNTS Hunters who are 15 years of age and younger can participate in special chukar and pheasant hunts this fall. These special youth hunts have been held in Utah for years. They're a great way to introduce young people to upland game hunting. "Kids really enjoy these hunts," says Dave Olsen, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "They usually have plenty of birds to shoot at, and they don't have to compete with older hunters for a bird." Participating in one of the hunts is easy. If you're 15 years of age or younger, and you've completed Utah's Hunter Education course, just go online at wildlife.utah.gov/uplandgame and complete an application. Application and hunt dates To be considered for one of the youth chukar hunts, the Division must receive your application no later than Aug. 23. Applications for the youth pheasant hunts are due by Sept. 6. The youth chukar hunts will be held Sept. 4 on four state wildlife management areas (WMAs) and one Walk-In Access area. The youth pheasant hunts will be held Nov. 13 on four state WMAs and one Walk-In Access area. "We're holding these hunts KEEPING YOUR MONEY SAFE Doctor: "That's a big Dad is from the old school, where you keep slash cut on your head. your money under the mattress— Only he kept How did that happen?" his in the underwear drawer. One day I bought Boy : "My sister hit me with my dad an unusual personal safe— A can of spray paint with a false bottom so he could keep some tomatoes." Doctor: "That's incredible, I his money in the workshop. Later I asked Mom can't imagine how any toma- if he was using it. "Oh, yes," she replied, "he put his money in toes would make a cut like that." it the same day." Boy : "They were still in a can." "No burglar would think to look on the work shelf!" I gloated. "They won't have to," my mom replied. "He keeps the paint can in his underwear drawer." Trying to do my share for the environment, I set up a trash basket at my church and posted above it this suggestion: "Empty water bottles here." Since I was expecting my first child, I had I should have been a little more attended natural childbirth classes. One of my specific, because when I went to classmates was in the hospital in labor at the check it later, I didn't find any bottles same time I was. She quickly requested drugs to in it. But it was full of water. ease her pain, while I gave birth aided only by my husband's coaching. When the nurses rolled me out of the deA waiter brings a customer the livery room, I spotted a chalkboard. Beside my steak he ordered. The waiter has his classmate's name was an A-; next to mine was a B+. "Look at that!" I complained to my husband. thumb over the meat. "Are you crazy?" yelled the cus- "She took all the drugs they'd give her and made tomer, "with your hand on my steak?" an A-. I did it naturally and only got a B+." My patient husband rolled his eyes. "Honey," "What..." answers the waiter, "You he said, "that's your blood type." want it to fall on the floor again?" WATER BOTTLES CHILDBIRTH THE STEAK It Makes Sense...B y Veda Hale Social Security is hard to get straight. I mean to figure just how best to get all that is legal to get. We used to think that the best way to have a good retirement income was to do your own saving and investing. It was "awfulized" that Social Security wouldn't even be around when we needed it. After the stock market "adjustment" in 2008, many of us were sadly mistaken. We would be better off using what is left of our savings first and figuring out how to make our social security checks bigger. It looks as if, even the way things are going, that S.S. will be here for at least another 30 years. One way to increase what we get over all is to put off collecting until age 70. That is because you get more then. Another is to apply and then only take your spouce's amount and defer your own. The gamble is that you will die rather young in retirement years. But if you live well into your eighties, it could make sense to look at options. It could mean thousands of dollars. The penny taped to a bee sting is still something I'd try. Luckily no one in my immediate vicinity has been bitten since I wrote about this last year. However, this week I did get a terribly big mosquito bite on my leg and was anticipating a time of annoying itching. I taped a penny over it for a day and a night and never had an itch. I think if I told my pup, Bozie, the Bible stories, he would wonder why God didn't have Noah just swat those two mosquitoes. Send suggestions to Veda Hale, Box 956 Panguitch Utah 84759 or email vedahale@ hotmail.com Intermountain Garfield Memorial Hospital 200 North 400 East • Panguitch, Utah • 676-8811 www.garfieldmemorial.org Family Practice Dr. Richard Birch Dr. Todd Mooney Becky Roberts, FNP Tim Dennis, PA-C Dr. Mitchell Miller Speech Therapy Flora Howard Anesthesiology Lewis Barney, CRNA Certified Nurse Midwife DeAnn Brown, CNM VISITING SPECIALISTS FOR AUGUST 2010 "11•0111111•■•• ••• 1.1.• .• • , • ■ • •• • ,TOrr. •••:17 • • Z/ • .• . I • across Utah," Olsen says. "No matter where you live, you should be able to find a hunt within two hours of your home." The WMAs and the Walk-In Access areas will be closed to all other hunters on the day the youth hunts are held. Getting youth excited about upland game hunting "The number of young people who hunt in Utah has declined through the years," Olsen says. "We're hoping these youth hunts will help reverse that trend by getting young people into the field and letting them experience what it's like to take an upland game bird. "The hunts also give us a chance to teach young people how to be responsible and ethical hunters." For more information about the hunts, call the nearest Division office or see page 22 of the 20102011 Utah Upland Game Guidebook. The guidebook is available at wildlife.utah.gov/ guidebooks. 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