TOO MUCH, TOO LITTLE AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN

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ON FRIDAY JANUARY 15TH. I BEGAN A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER

A minister was on vacation and enjoying his needed rest.

One afternoon as he was relaxing on the porch and looking out over a mountain scene he received a phone call from a local congregation. They had gotten word that there was a vacationing minister in their little community and they wondered if he would be willing to preach the next Sunday.

He readily agreed and the next Sunday showed up along with 12 people who had come to hear him preach. When it was all over, one of the Deacons came up to him, thanked him and then said, “We wish we could pay you something but we don’t have any money. I hope you understand.”

“It’s alright,” responded the minister. “No problem.” But as he was leaving the church he noticed an offering plate… and that the plate was completely empty.

Reaching down into his pocket he came out with a crisp new twenty-dollar bill and dropped it therein. Then he and his wife and daughter walked hand in hand to their car and prepared to drive away.

“Stop! Stop!” cried out the Deacon who had spoken to him earlier as he came rushing up with an envelope. “We couldn’t let you leave without giving you something.”

When they were back home he opened the envelope and, yes – as you’ve already figured out – in it was the easily recognizable brand new $20 bill, the same one he had dropped in the offering plate.

Turning to his daughter he asked, “Did you learn a good lesson from this this morning?” She promptly responded, “Sure did, Daddy. If you had put more in, you would have gotten more back.”

People who are obsessed with giving are more often satisfied with what they have than those who are obsessed only with what they can get.

Discontent is a part of the universe, but how sad to let it become a way of life.

Perhaps if leaves could think there would be some that would wish they were a pine needle, or wish they could be let loose from their branch to flutter though the air like a bird.

Finding fault with what is to chase some pie in the sky that isn’t has happened to everyone but how sad, for to paraphrase – man does not live by pie alone.

One thing is for sure… it is important to realize the difference between being stuffed or satisfied.

How it really is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Take praise. It is certainly good, unless you receive so much of it you can’t live without it, and become blind to criticism.

There is a bitterness to not being satisfied. The Greek word for bitterness? Poison.

If you feed your dissatisfaction with what you don’t like that people are doing, or God is doing, or life is doing to you, you will continue to be miserable.

It can be no other way. However, if you offer prayers of praise for your uniqueness and that of others, you will find more often satisfaction.

If you train yourself to be happy with what you have, you will be not only happier but blessed.

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