Cybersalt News

Sunday greetings everyone, and happy Father's Day to everyone who is able to celebrate!

Today is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It's the first day of summer, which is exciting because it means that there are still 2 months of nice weather ahead, but I know the days will start getting shorter tomorrow, and in a couple of months it will be really noticeable that fall is just around the corner.

Of course, for those of you in the southern hemisphere, today is the shortest day. Tomorrow you can awake knowing that you made it over the dark hump and that the days are soon going to be noticeably longer.

I think you have it a bit tougher than us northerners because our winter solstice is December 21. Christmas and New Year's do help to break things up. But then again, maybe you feel sorry for us that we can't enjoy the nice weather at Christmastime!

Whether the sun is coming or going for you, I pray that God's face of blessing will shine on you wherever you are.

Which brings me to today's video share. I don't know if you enjoy watching talent shows like America's Got Talent or not, but I sure do. This past week, the story of one of the singers on the show impacted me and millions of other people. Before you watch that video, however, please read the singer's guest post on Ann Voscamp's website. The written words of Jane Marczewski (Nightbirde) are just as impactful as the ones she sings.

annvoskamp.com/2021/06/how-to-meet-god-at-your-lowest-point

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

The big news, figuratively and literally, around Cybersalt World Headquarters is Grandma Cybersalt have a new grandson!

Isaac Timothy Driver was born at 1:16pm, weighing in at an even 10 pounds!

His mother, father and proud big sister are all doing fine.

That's right, 10 pounds, which is great because it won't be long before he and I can share clothes!

In other news, I just discovered that Sunday's mailing did not go out. I guess I'm ready for this Sunday already!

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

Grandma Cybersalt and I are wondering if anyone out there would like to help by making the Cleanguote graphics that go out in the Cybersalt Digest? If you are, drop me an email at [email protected].

We'll supply the quotes and also the size requirements and other details. All you need to be is creative and able to make them. You see them in each edition but to refresh your memory of the style of some of them, you can check out recent ones at:
www.cybersalt.org/inspiration/quotes 

Today's video share is from "The Carbonaro Effect" - a hidden, magic, TV show that we have been recently enjoying on YouTube. This one is one of our favourites, so far.
You can view the video by clicking here.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

~ Pastor Tim

Sunday greetings everyone!

If the saying, "The best things in life are free" is true, kindness has to be one of the best things in life.

It costs nothing to be kind to someone. Gentle words of encouragement or appreciation come at the same zero price as not correcting or chastising someone who clearly knows they made a mistake. Going over to talk to a person who is desperately alone in a crowd, or listening to another person's story and then not telling the better one that happened to you, cannot be bought.

The burdens lifted, hope restored, loneliness chased away, and self-worth felt because of such acts, and many more like them, is unmeasurable - especially when you stop to consider that those results may occur simultaneously in the giver and receiver, with unpredictable, ongoing results for both.

That said, there is also be a great price to being kind. The sheer act of trying to see life through another's eyes requires a challenging self-emptying and vanquishing of all the conditions that stand in the way of our being and acting unconditionally toward others. And if we are successful in that, we may then have to invest further creativity, time, money, and energy, into following through because of what we have seen, lest we turn away and end up being unkind.

This is why kindness is also dangerous, because to pursue it guarantees we are going to be changed one way or the other.

Today's video share is of an act that is all of the above and took many kind people to pull off.

Click watch to listen the video.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim