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WITandWISDOM(tm) - July 5, 1999 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. (James Rhinehart) ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: HEALED AND WHOLE One day I dug a little hole And put my hurt inside I thought that I could just forget I'd put it there to hide. But that little hurt began to grow I covered it every day I couldn't leave it and go on It seemed the price I had to pay. My joy was gone, my heart was sad Pain was all I knew. My wounded soul enveloped me Loving seemed too hard to do. One day, while standing by my hole I cried to God above And said, "If You are really there -- They say, You're a God of Love!" And just like that -- He was right there And just put His arms around me He wiped my tears, His hurting child There was no safer place to be. I told Him all about my hurt I opened up my heart He listened to each and every word To every sordid part. I dug down deep and got my hurt I brushed the dirt away And placed it in the Master's hand And healing came that day. He took the blackness of my soul And set my spirit FREE! Something beautiful began to grow Where the hurt used to be. And when I look at what has grown Out of my tears and pain I remember every day to give my hurts to Him And never bury them again. - Carol Parrott (Carol Blum) ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: LIFE IN THE 1500'S . . . Part 2 of 2 [Part 1, 6-23- 99] They cooked in the kitchen in a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day, they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They mostly ate vegetables and didn't get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes, the stew had food in it that had been in there for a month. Hence the rhyme: peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." ~~~~~ Sometimes, they could obtain pork and would feel really special when that happened. When company came over, would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. It was a sign of wealth and that a man "could really bring home the bacon." ~~~~~ They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." ~~~~~ Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach into the food. This happened most often with tomatoes, so they stopped eating tomatoes. . . for 400 years. Most people didn't have pewter plates, but had trenchers - a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormy trenchers, they would get "trench mouth." ~~~~~ Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust". ~~~~~ Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." ~~~~~ England is old and small. They started running out of places to bury people. They would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside, and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence, on the "graveyard shift" they would know that someone was "saved by the bell" or he was a "dead ringer". (Rood Keen, Dave Aufrance) ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: A guy goes into a restaurant wearing a shirt open at the collar and is met by a host who tells him he must wear a necktie to gain admission. So the guy goes out to his car and he looks around for a necktie and discovers that he just doesn't have one. He sees a set of jumper cables in his trunk. In desperation he ties these around his neck, manages to fashion a fairly acceptable looking knot and lets the ends dangle free. He goes back to the restaurant and the host carefully looks him over for a few minutes and then says, "Well, OK, I guess you can come in - just don't start anything." (E-zine: JOKES EVERY DAY mailto:jokesubscribe@jokeseveryday.com) ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: FAMILY PLAY Do you have kids? Want to share in their online travels? 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