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To: Kenneth E Stutzman, Jr. Charles W. Rutherford, Juanita L. Brown, Mac Almond, Johnnie M. Dodson, and Chauncey Stumpter
Membership List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_69c35dhf
From: Michael Porter
RE: 25th Newsletter
Today's thought is:
"Remember the old Chinese handcuffs thing," a friend reminds me when I get stuck doing the same thing over and over, even though whatever I'm doing doesn't work.
A Chinese handcuff is a toy, a small bamboo tube, about four inches long. You stick an index finger in each end. Then when you pull, you're trapped. The harder you pull, the more stuck you get. Your instinctive reaction, not the handcuffs, keeps you trapped. To set yourself free you have to take certain steps. Letting go isn't enough. You have to relax, then gently push in before you can pull yourself loose.
Sometimes taking action means relaxing and doing the opposite of what our instincts tell us to do. If we have tried to do something a hundred times, and the way we're doing it hasn't worked, it probably still won't the next time. It may be time to try something else.
You are reading from the book:
52 Weeks of Conscious Contact by Melody Beattie
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Here is Mac’s spreadsheet: http://tinyurl.com/253gxw
Well according to Mac’s Spreadsheet we won nothing in last night’s Power Ball drawing.
The new Jack Pot is $61 Million. The Cash Option is worth $26,200,000.00.
There are 10 shares issued in this game, here is the payout, not including any attorney fees, taxes or tithes:
| Shares Purchased | Amount you could win |
| .5 | $1,410,000.00 |
| 1 | $2,820,000.00 |
| 2 | $5,640,000.00 |
| 3 | $8,460,000.00 |
Here is a recap of what we have won so far:
| Date Money Won | Amount | Running Total | Notes |
| | $3.00 | $3.00 | |
| | $3.00 | $6.00 | |
| | $7.00 | $13.00 | |
| | $3.00 | $16.00 | |
| | $7.00 | $23.00 | |
For awhile there we were winning something every other draw, and it seems we have hit on a dry spell.
Our next drawing is
God is Watching
Children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, "Take only one, God is watching."
At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. Moving through the line a boy wrote another note to leave by the cookies, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples."
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