you would not be willing to accept." | "It's nice to be important, | "If the world laughs at you, |
"Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria. | "Everyone hears what you say. | "They say nothing is impossible, |
"Worring is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn't take you anywhere" | "If there's nothing in your heart, | "A Life? ... Cool! ... |
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." | "Those who rarely hear the shrill voice of conscience seem to never miss the faint whisper of temptation." | "Plan your work, work your plan!" |
"Life is like a boX of chocolates. |
"Confidence is not trying the knob after you've
locked the door." | "Justice has nothing to do with eXpendiency." |
"Getting something done is an accomplishment; | "The person who is a good sport has to lose to prove it." | "If you want a place in the sun, you've got to eXpect a few blisters." |
Wrong Number Miracle
By ERIC S. PAGE Nov 30, 2009
Mom was going to miss mortgage
payment if she sent daughter money
Virginia Saenz could hear the desperation in the voice of the telephone message. It was 5 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the caller, Lucy Crutchfield, was trying to tell her daughter that she'd send money for groceries -- but she'd have to miss a mortgage payment to do it.
But Crutchfield dialed the wrong number. Instead of getting her daughter, she got Saenz, a real estate agent from the San Diego suburb of Tierrasanta.
"I know right now we are all struggling," Saenz said. "Lisa on the phone, she sounded so desperate for her daughter, it broke my heart."
Saenz did the only thing she could think of -- she called Crutchfield back and said not to worry. Crutchfield would pay the mortgage, and Saenz would handle the groceries.
"She said, 'You have the wrong number ... don't worry any more,' " Crutchfield recalled.
For Crutchfield, it was a holiday miracle. Her house is already in foreclosure. Her mother recently passed away, and Crutchfield is now trying to pay off her house. She had a money order prepared to make a mortgage payment on that house -- but was going to cash it in when her daughter called asking for money.
"I thought I was going to lose that house, too," Crutchfield said.
Saenz told Crutchfield to keep her money and promised to take care of her daughter. The real estate agent then called Crutchfield's daughter.
"I asked her what she would like, what her kids like, and then I felt really bad because she said she only wanted eggs and milk," Saenz said. "When somebody only asks you for eggs and milk, they are in a really bad situation."
So Saenz went grocery shopping on Thanksgiving morning with her 14-year-old son in tow to tell her what kids liked to eat. They bought food for a Thanksgiving dinner and enough groceries to get Crutchfield's daughter through the end of the month -- her next payday.
She said the act of giving made "the day special for me."
"I helped somebody," Saenz said Friday.
"I think it's what anybody would have done."
"Consider how difficult it is to change yourself, and you will have a much better understanding of your chances of changing someone else." | "The person on the top of the mountain did not just fall there." | "Worry is like a rocking chair... it gives you something to do, but it doesn't take you anywhere." |
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to it." | "The first thing a child learns when they get a drum is that they will never get another one." | "Ulcers are what people get from mountain climbing over molehills." |
"Some minds are like concrete--all miXed up and permanently set"" | "People do not stop doing things because they get older. They get older because they stop doing things." | "Don't criticize people who talk to themselves. Sometimes it's the only intelligent conversation they will have all day." |
"Elbow grease is still the best lubricant for success." | "Poverity is: "Who knows you?" | "Miracles only testify to the limits of our knowledge." |
"Everyone complains of their memory, but no one complains of their judgement." | "A tongue can be a dangerous enemy, so can yours... to yourself no less than to others as well." | "If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each and everyone of their children a drum." |
| "First get the job, then get the job done right!" | "Don't worry if you start losing your
memory. |
"To keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship them, and a cat that will ignore them" | "If you don't have it by now, you really don't need it" | "FleXibility is the cornerstone of progress. Progress is impossible without change. Those who cannot change their minds will never be able to change anything." |
"Many people are in favor of progress...it's the change they don't like." | "If you don't have a plan for yourself, watch out or you may become part of someone else's plan." | "Accept the fact that anything worth doing is going to take longer than you think." |
| "If stretching paid dividends, a cat would be a very rich puppy." | "History repeats itself, which is good, because most people don't listen the first time around." |
"Successful people beome successful by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it." |
"Courage is not the absence of fear. | "Be not afraid of growing slowly...be afraid only of standing still." |
"Do not be in a hurry to tie what you can not untie." |
"Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done." | "The grass on the other side of the fence may look greener, but it sill has to be mowed once a week." |
| "A person will sometimes devote a lifetime to the development of just one part of the body - the wishbone." |
"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement." |
"All things come to those who crosses the street without looking." | "It takes a rough stone to sharpen the edge." | "Living in the Lap of LuXury isn't bad, eXcept you never know when LuXury is going to stand up." |
"Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques.The comfortable ones are worn out by a single generation." | "You will draw to yourself that which you most persistently think about." | "A well adjusted person can make the same mistake twice without getting nervous." |
"It's fine to stand out from the crowd, but not when they're shooting at you." | "We find our lives in losing them in the service to others." | "Have you noticed that nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute?" |
"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible." | "Patience will come to those who waits for it." | "Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted." |
"It's only premarital sex if you're going to get married." |
"If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hands." | "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere" |
"When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers." | "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Txes M&A Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe." | The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. |
"The person who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does." | "All of the animals except humans know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." | "America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks." |
"Genius has limitations; | "Whenever your cup is full, walk slowly and carry it even." | "Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." |
"One of these days is none of these days." | "Well done is better than well said." | "Anyone who believes that the competitive spirt in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when a cashier opens another checkout line." |
"Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car." | "There is no growth eXcept in the fulfilment of obligations." | "The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put alot of relatives on the train for home." |
"What soap is for our body, | "Tact is like a girdle. | "There is no growth eXcept in the fulfillment of obligations." |
The value is what you receive." | "Thieves have easy jobs, but bad dreams." | "Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." |
"You are best to yourself when you are good to others." | "The only people who listen to both sides of an argument are the neXt-door neighbors." | "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." |
"You know you are getting old when the only whistles you get are from your hearing aid" | "Progress begins with getting a clear view of the obstacles." | "Be aware that just because it does not glittler doesn't mean it isn't gold." |
| "The longest wait in the world is when the nurse says, | "People will accept your idea much more readly if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." |
"A little craziness now and then could save you from permanet brain damage." | "The best way to find something you've lost is to buy a replacement." | "If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualise world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started." |
"The soul is not where it lives but where it loves. | "We may not have it all together... | "I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eventually write all the songs by the Monkees " |
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." | "I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me." | "My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said." |
"If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs." | "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but faith looks up." | "They said procrastination Was the source of all my sorrow I don't know what that big word means -- I'll look it up tomorrow." |
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." | "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." | "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." |
"A good marriage is like a casserole,only those responsible for it really know what goes in it." | "If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane." | "Let us live!!! |
"Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards." | "Emotions are like waves. Watch them come and go on the vast ocean of eXistence." | "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." |
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, But in rising every time we fall." | "Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards." | "Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. |
"Keep your words sweet in case you have to eat them." | "They can, because they think they can." | "Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too sorrowful in misfortune." |
It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.On exam it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. As we talked, and I finished dressing his wound, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late. |
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