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9/13– Can You Spare A Minute?
9/13–When their son left for his freshman year at Duke University, his parents gave him a Bible, assuring him it would be a great help.
Later, as he began sending them letters asking for money, they would write back telling him to read his Bible, citing chapter and verse. He would reply that he was reading the Bible–but he still needed money.
When he came home for a semester break, his parents told him they knew he had not been reading his Bible. How? They had tucked $10 and $20 bills by the verses they had cited in their letters.
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9/12–I heard a story about a sixteen-year-old young man who lived in Ghana. He came from a very poor village. All he ever wanted to do in his whole life was to make a difference in the lives of others. As a teen, he left home in search of riches and wealth to bring back to his village. He eventually ended up working on a cocoa plantation.
For seven years, he had no contact with his friends or his family. One day he returned to the village. The people gathered around, and someone asked, “What do you have to show for seven years of being away? What did you bring us? Where are the riches?”
The young man responded by “reaching into his pocket and pulling out three tiny seeds.
“Is this all you have to show? Three tiny seeds?” someone asked.
Without speaking a word, he turned, went to the family hut, and planted those three seeds nearby. From those seeds grew the first cocoa plant to be cultivated in his nation. And the second and third as well. Today, cocoa is one of the primary crops in Ghana.
According to legend, it was started by one African man who planted three tiny seeds.
Dr. Munroe told me that story and said, “Go plant some seeds. Go do some positive things for others. God’s going to bless you.
Remember, there are some people who will say they’re going to help you in life, but they really won’t. Don’t depend “on them because in many cases they won’t have the information, the wisdom, or the insight to help you get where you need to go. Why? Because they are seedless. There are other people who will bless you, for they will give you the seeds of life. These are the people who will connect to your dream and your passion and help you move forward.
When you go to the supermarket, sometimes you’ll see two kinds of fruit, seedless fruit and fruit with seeds, but you don’t know the difference until you look inside.
And that’s the way it is with certain people. You don’t really know who they are until you look within them.
I want you to plant yourself like a seed because, like a seed, the outer shell is going to die off, and when “that happens you will cast off all of your past negative experiences. You’re going to become grounded in what your purpose is and what you’re supposed to do. And you’re going to endure some long winter nights and some hot summer days.
There’s a price you’ll pay for living your dream. You’ll have to make some sacrifices, but it will be worth it if you’re willing to stay committed. You’re going to take root. When you’re rooted, you’ll become fully committed, and you’ll be unswayable. No one will be able to talk you out of achieving your purpose. One day, you’re going to come up through the soil, you’ll start to rise, to take action, and the momentum will carry you forward. When you surface, you’ll see the results of “your efforts, and you’ll know that you’re ready to make a difference.
You’ll be ready to plant some positive things—seeds—in other people.”
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Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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9/12–Can You Spare A Minute ?
9/12–“I am reminded of a famous television commercial of many years ago for the financial services firm E. F. Hutton that depicts a pair of businessmen in a busy restaurant trying to talk over the din of clanking silverware, loud waiters, and neighboring table conversations. One of the men says to his colleague, “Well, my broker is E. F. Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says . . . ” The place goes silent—waiters stop taking orders, busboys stop clearing tables, diners stop speaking—while everyone in the room turns to take in the advice, and an announcer’s voice intones: “When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen”
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Extracting the precious from the worthless..If you can have and develop this talent in life, you will be a very valuable person.
Jesus told Lazurus to come forth. When others saw something worthless and of no use but to bury, Jesus saw life….precious life. There are plenty of people that have something precious hidden inside that almost no one (including themselves) can see.
Oh, to be able to see and recognize these precious jewels. People that the world has turned its back on . Maybe that person is a teacher or a friend, or whatever relationship.
I knew a man who would talk to me like I was indeed someone special. He wasn’t related, just a friend. He knew how to bring out the best in me. Do you bring out the best in people, or the worst?
There are people, who seemingly, cannot carry on a good conversation, but can sing like angels. There are people we have known, probably for some time, who have a great talent, or story…but we don’t know because we didn’t go deep enough.
We are too concerned about ourselves to find out about others…their needs, talents, and many things they have to contribute.
Heroes who look like ordinary people. There is a hero in every one of us, it just has to be awakened!
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A lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts. “There’s nothing wrong with losing my temper,” she said. “I blow up, and then it’s all over.”
“So does a shotgun,” Sunday replied, “and look at the damage it leaves behind!”
Billy Sunday.
9/11–If I Had My Life To Live Over
The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease.
If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.
I would have eaten the popcorn in the ‘good’ living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass.
This is so true! In life there are no practice runs or laps. There are also no re-do’s. We only have one time through to get it right….so, we had better make it good!!..,,
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
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