Lotto Texas Lottery Pool - Game Ten - 4th Update

Lotto Texas Lottery Pool - Game Ten

Date: 12/27/2007

To: Sheila J. Mc Griff, Juanita L. Brown, Charles W. Rutherford, Anonymous (Libra/Snake), Mac Almond, Jared N. Moore, Carole Scott, Aaron Montgomery, Kevin S. Redlsperger, Ann F. Devore, Cordelia R. McGegor, Tambra L. Crow, Linda L. Roberts,Johnnine M. Dodson, Cindy F. Fernandez, and Anthony Bolton.

Membership List On the Web: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_105fdmsrv

From: Michael E. Porter

RE: 4th Update

This week's promise: Those who trust in God are no longer guilty

Have you refused to follow God?

"Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the Lord, your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow me. I, the Lord, have spoken!"

Jeremiah 3:13 NLT

The high cost of removing our guilt

Jesus paid a high price—his life—in order to remove our guilt before a holy God. While Jesus paid the price only he could pay, freedom from guilt is costly for us in other ways. The high price for us is the difficult task of admitting to God (and often others) that we were wrong and that we need forgiveness. This is called confession. As costly as confession is, the rewards are even greater: peace with ourselves and others, restored relationships, the removal of sin, and a renewed relationship with God.

But pride is a powerful force in our lives. Pride tells us, "All is well! You're OK!" Pride denies the reality of sin; in contrast, guilt warns us that all is not well. Guilt acknowledges the presence of sin and urges us to confess it. So these two—guilt and pride—battle it out in our souls. When guilt wins, a sin that separated us from God is removed. When pride wins, we remain isolated from God's grace, love, and care. There may be a high cost to removing guilt, but there is a higher cost to keeping it.

From the TouchPoint Bible
(Tyndale House), p 638

Your game has been extended until Saturday January 5^th, 2007. (That is good news for me, because I’m still behind on newsletters and could not imagine having to open another game.)

With your $3.00 win, I was able to buy you one line for 3 more drawings.

This will enable the few people who have not paid, to be given some extra time to get their money to me.

Mac is getting this newsletter the same time you are, so your new ticket may not be on his spreadsheet when you check it.

Here is the Spreadsheet that Mac provides us: http://tinyurl.com/2nvbld

Your next drawing is Saturday December 29th, 2007. That drawing is worth $9 Million. The Cash Option is worth $5,600,000.00.

There were 19 shares sold in this game. So I will take the Cash Option from Lotto Texas and divided it by 19. Here is what you would net, it does NOT include any attorney fees, taxes or tithes:

Shares Purchased	Winnings
.5	$147,368.42
1	$294,736.84
4	$1,178,947.36

Game Announcements

1. Lotto Texas Lottery Pool – Game 11 – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game starts on Wednesday January 9^th, 2007. I would need your money by Saturday January 5^th, 2008.

2. Mega Millions Lottery Pool – Game 40 – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game starts on Tuesday January 15^th, 2008. You need to have your money to me Saturday 12^th, 2008.

3. Kentucky Power Ball – Game One – Cost is $26.00 per share. 1^st Drawing should be Wednesday January 30^th, 2007. Cordelia R. McGegor will be leaving for Kentucky on Thursday January Thursday January 24^th, 2007. I will be instructing her to buy our tickets before leaving Kentucky on Sunday, January 27^th, 2007. If you would like to play in this game, you need to have your money to me no later than Wednesday January 23^rd, 2007.

4. Louisiana Power Ball – Game Four – Barbara A. Sykes will be leaving for New Orleans Tuesday January 29^th, 2008. She is going down for Mardi Gras. She will return to Dallas, Texas on Friday, February 8^th, 2008. Our first drawing will be on Saturday February 9^th, 2008. If you would like to play in this game, I would need your money by Saturday January 26^th, 2008.

Why women should avoid a girls night out after they are married. If this does not make you laugh out loud, you have lost your sense of humor.

The other night I was invited out for a night with the "girls." I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!" Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home.

Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.

I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him. (Even when totally smashed... 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals 12 cuckoos = MIDNIGHT!)

The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told him "MIDNIGHT"... he didn't seem pissed off in the least.

Whew, I got away with that one!

Then he said "We need a new cuckoo clock."

When I asked him why, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said "oh shit." Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted.

And along the same lines, if you have access to the internet, click this site: http://2showu.googlepages.com/understand