Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Potatoes may be likened to people. Now, surely you’re wondering, how can that be?
Well when potatoes are harvested, they have to be spread out to sort them into sizes. This ensures maximum market dollar since larger “spuds” command a higher price.
The potato farmers in Idaho all use this method to bag their product. Spread them out, sort them and finally “bag em”.
All that is but one. He never appeared to sort his potatoes like everybody else did. But he always turned a good price by having bags with large “spuds”.
One of his neighbors finally asked his secret.
He said, “It’s simple. I just load up the wagon with potatoes and take the roughest road to town. During the trip, the little potatoes always fall to the bottom. The medium potatoes land in the middle, while the big potatoes rise to the top.”
People are like that too. Rough times sorts out the best and the worst of people.
April 1, 1999
Watchtower, life story of Pascal Stisi.
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If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
8/27– Can You Spare A Minute?
-8/27
A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner. Father being ancient and weak, while eating, dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Other diners watched him in disgust while his son was calm. After, he finished eating, his son, who was not at all embarrassed, quietly took him to the washroom, wiped the food particles, removed the stains, combed his hair, and fitted his spectacles firmly.
When they came out, the entire restaurant was watching them in dead silence, not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that. The son settled the bill and started walking out with his father.
At that time, an old man amongst the diners called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you have left something behind?”.
The son replied, “No, sir, I haven’t.”
The older man retorted,
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Yes, you have! You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father”. The restaurant went silent.
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5/30–Buster and His Friends A traveler drove his car into a ditch near a farm. The farmer who had seen the car, came with his horse to help pull the car out of the ditch. The horse’s name was Buster. He hitched the horse up to the car and shouted, “Let’s go Bonnie! Pull!” The horse didn’t move. The farmer then yelled, “Let’s go Kiko! Pull!” Again, the horse didn’t move. Once more the farmer shouted “Let’s go Rudy! Pull!” Nothing happened. Then the farmer said, “Let’s go Buster! Pull!”
And the horse moved and dragged the vehicle out of the ditch. The man thanked the farmer, but being very curious he said “You called your horse three times by the wrong name. Why did you do that?”
The farmer laughed and said, “Oh, Buster is a blind old horse. If he thought he was the only one pullling, he wouldn’t even try!”
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Bottled water, a concept I thought was utterly ridiculous when I first heard about. Never happen, I thought. Why should I buy something coming out at my sink freely? But it did happen, and is happening. I buy it and people all over the world do.
Has satan ever presented a thought to you and you thought, never happen….but it did. People have married and never thought trouble would come to their home, but satan worked his way in.He can even take the ridiculous and make it seem like that’s the way it is supposed to be.
Churches split when harmony and unity flowed like nothing could ever stop it. Satan is pictured in red suit, with horns, and a tail and a pitchfork. No, my friend, he is the slickest, smothest salesman of all time!
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And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Humor:
I just sold my homing pigeon on eBay for the 22nd time!
And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
Story:
A father whose sons constantly quarrelled, asked them to bring him a bundle of sticks and then challenged each in turn to break the bundle over their knees, which they found impossible.
He then split the bundle and showed how each individual stick could easily be broken. “United you are strong; quarrelling and separated and you are weak,” he said.
This would work and apply to Husbands and Wive, A Church, friends, corporations, etc.
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8/24–Can You Spare A Minute?
Are you a help today or are you one that hinders. You will either do one or the other to your Church, friends, and family.
I hear people say all the time I’m not a help but I’m not a hindrance.
Oh, yes you are! If you are not a help then you are a hindrance! You cannot ride the fence you will fall off on one side or the other. You will fall to the help side or to the side that hinders.
I made the statement once that I wanted to leave the walks of this life the day I started hindering. As soon as I could, I told them I wanted to make a correction to that statement. I told them that I did not want to leave the day I started hindering but instead I wanted to leave the day before.
There are too many things that a person can do to help others that there should be no reason to ever think about hindering someone else.
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