Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father most of us try to avoid failure like the plague. Yet, where does our experience come from if not from failure? Failure then becomes the small price we pay for experience. We are all like tea bags. We have to be put in hot water to see how strong we are. Although some of […]
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father, the joy of living in harmony with you is our greatest pleasure. Seeking pleasure is an all consuming activity in our daily run through life. When bad things happen or our pleasure is removed too many resort to substitute pleasures; Food, drink & pills. These are only temporary and further use
Noon Meeting News – September 5, 2017 – Chuck Thokey – The Importance of Mentoring Read More »
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father faithfully let us run the race that is set before us and the impressions we leave give light and purpose to those who follow. We never know what effect we are going to have on another person. If our cause is just and we have followed Your precepts, we have no
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father as adults we can look back on our lives and try to figure out why and how we became the person we are now. Many will discover that one or two people shaped our personality or steered us to become interested in the vocation or avocation we now enjoy. To our
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father, when we lose someone we know whether it is a friend or family member our heart aches at the loss. With regret we hurt because we didn’t get to tell them how much we love them or how much they have meant to us for just being them. Lord give us
Noon Meeting News – August 15, 2017 Will Cale Scholarship Winners Read More »
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father there are times when we discover we can’t do something without Your help. Then we come to You in earnest prayer. Being an impatient lot, after a while we may feel our prayers were not answered. That’s when we need to realize You did answer by not giving us what we
Noon Meeting News – August 8, 2017 WHIO-TV News Anchor James Brown Read More »
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father, I know I have tooted our horn before. The honor of being the best of over 2,400 of the International Optimist clubs is just to good not to bust another button over. The Centerville Noon Optimist Club is best described by this: Excellence is the result of caring more than others
Noon Meeting News – August 1, 2017 Martin Noe – Internet Security and Fraud Prevention Read More »
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father, life doesn’t get any easier just cause we are getting older. With added Experience we think bad times would be avoided and have nothing but smooth sailing. As any old timer will tell you, getting older is not for a sissy. We have an array of excuses to explain our bad
Noon Meeting News – July 25, 2017 – Tanya Snarr – Junior Achievement Read More »
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father, we are often challenged by the question. “Why does God allow so much evil in the world?” For many of us we don’t have an answer. It’s like Einstein trying to explain his theory of relativity to a new born baby. Even that probably pales in our understanding of Your greatness.
Phather Phil’s Prayer Heavenly Father you know we feel great being called an Optimist, but to be pointed out that we are the best , is a dream come true. We give thanks for all the talent You have gathered under the Centerville Noon Optimist name. To the participation of the members in all of our
