LOOSE CABLE

"The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender." - William Booth

Every time we take out some time to really study about the enormous potentials embedded in the human race - with God's Spirit in us - the revelations are mind bogging.

In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car off. As he made his rounds, he would either park on a hill or leave the engine running. He used this ingenious procedure for two years. Ill health forced the Jackson family to leave, and a new missionary came to that station. When Jackson proudly began to explain his

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IT'S WORK TIME!

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Tim Notke

Martin Luther, quoted in What Luther Says In Knowledge of the Holy: "If God did not bless, not one hair, not a solitary wisp of straw, would grow; but there would be an end of everything. At the same time God wants me to take this stance: I would have nothing whatever if I did not plow and sow. God does not want to have success come without work, and yet I am not to achieve it by my work. He does not want me to sit at home, to loaf, to commit matters to God, and to wait till a fried chicken flies into my mouth. That would be tempting God."

Looking around in this century, it is grievous to see how many of us Christians have become lazy. Leaving everything else to God, but praying. The Church have become so disillusioned, that we attribute every failure to the devil, and delegate our

WE'VE ALL GOT A SMIRK

"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one." - Marcus Aurelius

David Moye, with The Huffington Post, writes: If North Carolina ever gets tired of being called the "Tar Heel State," there’s another nickname just waiting for them: "Home of the happiest mug shots"...Mugshots from all over the country were simply put through Microsoft Cognitive Services, a web-based tool that can detect emotions, in order to determine the moods of each suspect. The facial recognition software sorted the various booking photos into...happy, sad or most surprised...North Carolina came out on top for smiling suspects...

The crimes these smiling suspects were most likely accused weren’t anything to grin about. They included contributing to the delinquency of a minor, cruelty to animals,

THE PRESENT NOW!

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." - Bil Keane

We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate that future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

Margaret Storm Jameson, the English author, once expressed the view that we all spend too much time living in the past, feeling regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done. Even when our minds turn to the future, she said, we spend an inordinate amount of time longing for it or dreading it. "The only way to live," she said, "is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle...Work at your work. Play at your play. Shed your tears. Enjoy your laughter. Now is the time of your life."

Life isn't about to begin, it has begun stop waiting. Mother Teresa said, "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."