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Page 40 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 www.shelbyinfo.com B OB ' S C AROLINA W EATHER Thursday, May 9 High 80 Low 54 Friday, May 10 High 81 Low 58 Saturday, May 11 High 75 Low 59 Sunday, May 12 High 72 Low 58 Monday, May 13 High 68 Low 38 Thursday, May 9-May 15, 2013 For Up To The Minute Cleveland County Weather Go To shelbyinfo.com Wednesday, May 15 Tuesday, May 14 Meteorologist Robert Gamble High 75 Low 44 High 70 Low 38 Email: Another weekend with some rain! But this time the front is on the move, and nobody should get too much rain. By Mother's Day the front is pushing through our region and we'll clear out and turn windy, and colder. In fact by Monday morning there's even a frost threat...in May! We should bounce back soon though. carolinaweather @yahoo.com OneDaySmileDentures.com Full Upper or Lower Dentures Fast & Affordable Dentures • 1429 North Lafayette Street, Shelby, NC LISTEN TO LIFE by Dr. Joey Faucette ListentoLife.org What would you do? I missed a flight by four minutes. So I had to hand around the airport for about four hours, until the next available flight. Being late meant that I wouldn't get home until after midnight which definitely wasn't my first choice because I had an hour-long radio interview early the next morning. I was a little upset with myself as I sat in the airport, going over in my mind all of the things that I should have done, but didn't, in order to get to the airport on time. I was pretty rough on myself and started feeling a little down... ...until I talked with my wife. I groused about my negligence, the delay in getting home, and the uncertainty of an available seat on the connecting flight. Then she said, "But honey, you always land on your feet. Just do what you tell everyone else to do – Listen to Life and Live Positive." And I did, much more humble than before our conversation. I sat down, turned on my laptop, and wrote this story to share with you. 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All utilities included, free cable. $120 week, no deposit required. 828-245-0444. $ By Martha Hynson mhynson1@gmail.com If God So Clothes the Flowers A friend of mine is helping plan a yard sale. It's for a good cause and I'm more than happy to donate because I decided a long time ago that I was done having yard sales of my own. Hearing people talk about making hundreds of dollars on a sale used to motivate me to have one myself. I'd go through my house pulling out things we no longer used, sorting, pricing, hauling them outside, and end up making almost enough money to cover the cost of the ad I'd put in the paper. Reality finally hit when I realized I could sell every single thing I'd dragged to the driveway, for the price I'd put on its little round sticker, and still not make anywhere near hundreds of dollars. My problem, I decided, is that my junk is truly junk. That, and the fact that it always rained. I never sold much, but I was always intrigued by what did sell. It was never what I expected. I remember a sale, years ago, when I insisted my daughter get rid of her beanbag chair. The reason I insisted was that the chair had a hole in it and leaked little Styrofoam pellets all over the place. I saw it as messy and useless. My daughter, on the other hand, was reluctant to part with it at any price. At my urging, she finally came up with an amount - one which I thought was ridiculously high. What's more, she was determined to stick to it - none of the usual yard sale dickering for her. As I was certain nobody would pay her asking price, I saw the sale as simply a pit stop on the beanbag's journey to the dump. To my surprise, it was one of the few things we sold that day. The buyer was a woman who had a large dog for which she needed a bed. The fact that the chair had a hole in it didn't bother her in the least, she explained, because she planned to make a cover for it. My daughter, an animal lover, could not have been more pleased with the fate of her chair. My trash turned out to be that woman's treasure. Or her dog's, anyway. Recently, I found myself on the other end of that cliché. Last year, my neighbor, Sheila, had a cutting garden in which she grew gorgeous flowers to give away. She needed lots of jars to use as vases so, this winter, when my husband noticed some at an abandoned house on the property where he deer hunts, he asked if I wanted them. I'd offered to help Sheila with her garden this year, but I'd been wondering how much help I'd be since my history with flower gardening is similar to my history with yard sales. Collecting jars was at least something I felt I could do, so on a cold February morning, we rode out to see if there were any we could use. I envisioned a few jars inside the house, so I was not prepared for what I saw when we got there. Before us was what appeared to be a bumper crop of bottles. The ground around the dilapidated structure was covered with literally hundreds of glass containers. The jars were half-buried in the dirt and caked with mud but, as I picked them up, I envisioned vases filled with beautiful flowers. It occurred to me that God must look at His children in much the same way. He looks beyond our grime and sees our potential. As I worked, I thought about a morning last summer spent picking flowers with Sheila. We'd decided that working among the bees and blossoms was a perfect antidote to the stress and business of life. I mean if you can't find God's peace in a garden, where can you find it? His handiwork is all around. Then I remembered Christ's words in Matthew, reminding us that flowers are here today and gone tomorrow. It's people, not flowers, that God values most. I couldn't take my eyes off the beautiful blooms but, the wonderful truth is, we're the ones God can't stop looking at. He delights in us. So often, I miss seeing the exquisiteness of people around me. I need to take time to ask God to help me see others as He does. If I can see God's splendor in a flower, how much more should I see it in a person? The Bible calls our bodies, 'jars of clay,' but we are made in His image. God wants to fill these 'jars of clay' we live in with His Holy Spirit. Even on days when we feel mud-encrusted and useless, He wants to lavish His love on us, displaying His beauty in our lives. I was reminded of that truth as I collected discarded jars on that February day. When I looked up, I discovered God had provided not only the containers but also the very thing that could turn them into works of art for, just beyond the mud-caked bottles, bloomed dozens of daffodils waiting to fill them. Congratulations To Doug Teague Salesman Of The Month April 2013 CARTER Make This Your Women's Ministry Retreat This Year! CHEVROLET To Register Go Online to: www.MomsInPrayer.org 200 W. 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