DO MORE

"Do a little more each day, than you think you possibly can." - Lowell Thomas

Keith Hernandez one of baseball's top players, is a lifetime .300 hitter who has won numerous Golden Glove awards for excellence in fielding. He's won a batting championship for having the highest average, the Most Valuable Player award in his league, and even the World Series. Yet with all his accomplishments, he has missed out on something crucially important to him - his father's acceptance and recognition that what he has accomplished is valuable. Listen to what he had to say in a very candid interview about his relationship with his father: "One day Keith asked his father, 'Dad, I have a lifetime 300 batting average. What more do you want?' His father replied, 'But someday you're going to look back and say, "I could have done more."'"
One of the most erroneous assumption today is that, studying a good course is the guarantee for greatness. It's false because if we consider majority of the fulfilled people around us, we'll

CHRISTIANITY, OR RELIGION?

"Religion is part of the human make-up..." - Christopher Hitchens 

Patrick Morley says, in his book I Surrender, that the church's integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behaviour." He goes on to say that, "It is revival without reformation, without repentance." There's a story about the Devil walking along with one of his cohorts once upon a time. They saw a man ahead of them pick up something shiny. "What did he find?" asked the cohort. "A piece of the truth," the Devil replied. "Doesn't it bother you that he found a piece of the truth?" asked the cohort. "No," said the Devil, "I will see to it that he makes a religion

RULES?

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them." - Abraham Lincoln

In West Africa - Timbuktu to be exact - it is believed that the larger a women is, the more beautiful she is. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife was told by the nationals that his wife was a bad reflection of him - he obviously was not providing well enough for her. A proverb in that part of Africa says that, "If your wife is on a camel, and the camel is unable to stand up, then your wife is truly beautiful." It is absolutely amazing, these days to read on the news, about how much people spend on different surgeries costing mind blowing amounts: ladies in particular are so conscious of people's opinions about their looks that most will do 'ANYTHING,' to look like the photos of models they see in magazines.

"One man's meat," they say, "is another man's poison." A friend was told recently that his dress combination, wasn't right - according to fashion rules. Then I asked, to know who

ONE THING

"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something." - Max Lucado

Josh Billings said, "Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." And, Henry Van Dyke said, on page 16 of Bits & Pieces, March 31, 1994, "Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Phillips Brooks concludes by saying that, "It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything."

Amazing truths, don't you think? Try to picture yourself without a tongue or even imagine your tongue without taste buds. How about a car without the screws that hold the tires in place, or the valve through which air is pumped into the tires. Can you imagine, a house without doors or windows? What about cutlery or a hot mug without a handle? I'm not

STEVE LYONS

"The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule." - Gary Hamel

Steve Lyons will be remembered as the player who dropped his pants. He could be remembered as an outstanding infielder...as the player who played every position for the Chicago White Sox...as the guy who always dove into first base...as a favorite of the fans who high-fived the guy who caught the foul ball in the bleachers. He could be remembered as an above-average player who made it with an average ability. He'll be remembered as the player who dropped his pants on national television on July 16, 1990.

People diving headfirst into anything, just to defend someone else are seldom seen - that's a person worthy of a pat on the back. You might not be the best,