Friday, February 5, 2016

BE A WARMER?

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(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)


In 1860, a young ministerial student, Edward Spencer, in Evanston, Illinois watched a ship go aground on the shore of Lake Michigan.

It was the dead of winter and ice floated all around. Nevertheless, time and time again he waded into the frigid waters to rescue 17 passengers.

In the process, his health was permanently and irreparably damaged. Some years later at his funeral, it was noted that not one of the people he rescued ever thanked him.

Will you one day stand beside the grave of a friend or family member and speak of all the things you are thankful for that came from them, or for who they were?

Will you stand around their grave and be thankful but not do so now before it is too late? Now is when they can know and appreciate and be warmed by your love and thanksgiving. So get busy, RIGHT NOW and write a note to someone explaining why your glad to know them and what they have meant in your life or something special they did for you so many months or even years ago.

Give them the gift of your thanksgiving…and yes, better late than never…because even late is too late sometimes.

“Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor” 1 Corinthians 10.24

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