• October 4, 2025 - Mills Trade Day, Mills, TX.
• The bus will leave at 8:30am from the GMBC Education entrance. Lunch will be in Mills, Tx, and will return midafternoon.

it takes a strong man to cry

Growing up I was always told to never let anyone see you cry. It was considered a sign of weakness for a man to show emotion. I only remember my dad shedding tears on a very few occasions. The most memorable was when his younger brother called and told dad that he had accepted Christ as Lord and Savior of his life. We all cried that night and they were tears of joy. As I have gotten older, I have realized that there is nothing wrong with someone observing you show emotion. Even Christ, the strongest of a man in recorded history “wept”

Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he behold the city, and wept over it,

John 11:35 Jesus wept.

On both these occasions, Jesus wasn’t afraid for others to see him shed tears. The first was over the sin of the City of Jerusalem and the second was at the tomb of Lazarus.

I think Jesus was brought to tears over the City of Jerusalem because he could see the future of the city and how it would be destroyed. God, throuth the prophets had told how he would withdraw from the city and allow it to be destroyed and that not one stone would stand on another. I believe when Jesus looked out at the city that day and wept over it, He was seeing the things that would happen to it in the future, and it brought him to tears.

The second passage was at Lazarus’ tomb. I have heard many times, and it is recorded that the people around him saw Jesus weeping and supposed it was because he loved Lazarus so much. I have also heard that Jesus wept, because he knew where Lazarus was and that He was about to call him back from the Throne Room of God and back to a world of sorrow and pain.

When we look at the scriptures describing Jesus’ trial, beating and crucifixion, we can see the horrific pain that He endured for us and yet there is never a word about any tears or even cries of anguish and pain. Only silence. Christ wept over the city and at the tomb of a dear friend but was silent when enduring his own pain. What an example for us even today.

How often do we cry out about our own pain but never shed a tear for the condition of lost souls around us. My dad had prayed for his brother to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ for many years. I can remember him asking God to bind the devil and allow his brother to see Christ as the only true way, and one night it happened. We all had a good long cry when we heard the GOOD NEWS.

Weep for your loved ones, neighbors and friends. Place them in God’s hands and soak them in tears. Remember, “it takes a strong man to cry”.   

By James Lively

this should make you think

I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband unexpectedly died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down there.

With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said, “Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you a thought that is unrelated to class, but which I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves, and none of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. Perhaps this is God’s way of telling us that we must make the most of every single day.”

Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, “So I would like you all to make me a promise from now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be something you see – it could be a scent- perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone’s house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please look for these, and cherish them. For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the “stuff” of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for granted. We must make it important to notice them, for at any time it can all be taken away.”

The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook.



Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double-dip ice cream cone. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn’t do.

so you think you know everything

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words “racecar”, “kayak” and “level” are the same whether they are read left to right of right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:.tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious and facetious.”

There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.