How to Make a Good Home Office Great

How to Make a Good Home Office Great

very good idea/tip we probably all should do

Put your car keys beside your bed at night.
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> Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your Dr's office, the check-out girl at the market, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.
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> If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.
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> This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage.
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> If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.
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> P.S. I am sending this to everyone I know because I think it is fantastic. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can't reach a phone. My Mom has suggested to my Dad that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls outside and she doesn't hear him..... He can activate the car alarm and then she'll know there's a problem.
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> Please pass this on even IF you've read it before. It's a reminder.

Ruth Myers' prayer

Ruth Myers wrote several books, and the one I was most helped by is the The 31 Days of Praise.  She has gone on to be with the Lord, but I am so thankful that someone this Christmas sent this prayer in their Christmas card and I have truly been blessed by it.  It covers everything, and when I don't know how to pray, this helps me to focus on the essentials.  May it bless you too!


Lord, I'm YOURS. Whatever the cost may be, may Your will be done in my life.  I realize I'm not here on earth to do my own thing, or to seek my own fulfillment or my own glory.  I'm not here to indulge my desires, to increase my possessions, to impress people, to be popular, to prove I'm somebody important, or to promote myself.  I'm not here even to  be relevant or successful by human standards.  I'm here to please YOU. 


I offer myself to You, for You are worthy.  All that I am or hope to be, I owe to You.  I'm Yours by creation, and every day I  receive from you life and breath and all things.  And I'm Yours because You bought me, and the price you paid was the precious blood of Christ.  you alone, the Triune God, are worthy to be my Lord and Master.  I yield to You, my gracious and glorious heavenly Father; to the Lord Jesus who loved me and gave himself for me; to the Holy Spirit and His gracious influence and empowering.


All that I am and all that I have I give to You.  I give You my rebellion in me, that resists doing Your will.  I give You my pride and self-dependence, that tell me I can do Your will in my own power if I try hard enough.  I give you my fears, that tell me I'll never be able to do Your will in some areas of my life.  I consent to let You energize me...to create within me, moment by moment, both the desire and the power to do You will.


I give you my body and each of its members...my entire inner being; my mind, my emotional life, my will...my loved ones...my marriage or my hopes for marriage...my abilities and gifts...my strengths and weaknesses...my health...my status (high or low)...my possessions...my past, my present, and my future...when and how I'll go Home.  


I'm here to love You, to obey You, to glorify You, my Beloved, may I be a joy to YOU!  Amen.