Bingo venues eye smoking ban warily

Bingo venues eye smoking ban warily - Metro

When longtime bingo player Verona Ruiz sits down for a game, she does it with a bingo card in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

"I don't know why other people do, but I like to smoke and play bingo at the same time," Ruiz said. "I just enjoy smoking."

Ruiz isn't alone - among the usual crowd of bingo players at the Eagle Club, 225 Highway 1, bingo manager Steve Poggenpohl estimates that around 60 percent are smokers.

But when the Iowa smoking ban takes effect July 1, smokers will have to step outside if they want to light up.

Holy is the Lord

How great, how awesome is He? and together we sing!
Holy is the Lord God Almighty,
The earth is filled with your glory,
Holy is the Lord God Almighty,
The earth is filled with your glory,
the earth is filled with your glory..

Thank you Jesus for this new day,
bless all your children with the knowledge of your constant presence and imminent return.

The ultimate goal of the religious system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing for himself the knowledge and love of God.

This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that spiritual education is conducted by bishops in church buildings and nowhere else.

Ps 119:1-8 A personal response

Wholly sated is the filled vessel on THE journey whose support and defense is the Existing One's own words.

The completely satisfied are evidences of their encounter with the Eternal from their inmost parts they crave Him.

Actually, how can they consider doing evil? To be on THE journey to and with Him is their life!

Oh One! You yourself you show to us and we burn brightly in observing you!

Oh sweet caress, that I could labor in your cause without missing a step!

There is no threat of a wasted life because I am connected to you and you are all I am looking at!

My hands point to you,
my mouth babbles about
your beauty
your faithfulness,
your glory,
- oh words fail.
You are too wonderful to contemplate
and my heart has no direction but to know you.
I thrist for you.
My day-to-day is a recitation of you.

Your words are engraved on my heart
Don't ever let me go or I am lost!

Just a thought..

Humility is not a skill ...
It is a knowing - convinced of our deep need of His life.

Without Him you can do nothing.. (what part of nothing do we not understand?)

Wear your joy!

The very best thing we can do for ourselves is to get over ourselves.