A Better Sticky

When I was about to return to my popup card hobby this week after a three-month hiatus, I spied my old glue gun.  I hesitated to pick it up.  Then I smiled.  I knew that the glue gun had seen its last job.  I reached for sheets of my mini glue dots. 

What can the glue dots do that the glue gun cannot do? 

First, there’s often a sticky mess when the glue from the glue gun smears, or when it leaves a thin trail of glue as the glue gun is removed from its target.  The glue dots do not smear or trail.

Second, once the glue from the gun is applied, I am not able to shift the picture without great difficulty.  Once the glue dots are applied, even though they hold fast, I can pull apart the card and plastic and wiggle off the remaining glue.  This way, I can more easily experiment with different placements of my pictures on the popup cards.

A Better Text

It used to be that when my wife, or anyone else, texted me, I relied on the short jingle sound on my iPhone to alert me.  Often, I would not hear that signal, and miss the text.  Today, however, I discovered that I could change the short text alert to a happy song, just by changing the sound settings on the phone.  Not only do I now hear the song “Seaside” for my text alerts, I hear the song “Playtime” for my reminders.  Now that the volume of my alerts is constantly loud, and the songs continue to play, I can even hear my alert when I leave my phone in the kitchen.

A Better Connection Between Life and God

This morning Dennis Prager was talking about the passing last weekend of his 96-year-old father.  One comment reminded me how connected I am to life and to God.  Dennis said that right up until the end of his life, his father used to say, “What a good life I have had.”  I, too, have often echoed that statement.  If we look at the big picture of life, and not focus on the disappointments that occasionally come along, we will be able to see how happy a life we have led.  Hopefully that will make it easier to meet our maker at the end of our days. Keep glued to this message.

Mr. Ebsen may be contacted at robertebsen@hotmail.com