WHO NEEDS AN A STRING?

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I have played a number of musical instruments, the cello being one of them. Therefore the following story caught my attention.

It is about a violinist who’s A string broke in the middle of a concert and how he never missed a note, just transposed and kept on playing with the strings he had left. 

 And I thought to myself…this is life. Sometimes it takes from us we thought or think we cannot do without and if we learn how to adjust we find we can get along quite fine. (My left arm that never has functioned quite as well since my hang gliding action) It taught me adaptability.
Sometimes life disappoints us and I think of my failures and what they have taught me and how I am the better for it.

Sometimes it frustrates us…I wanted so badly to win Cross Country races but the very best I ever did was come in 49th in a Tri State race. It taught be adaptability. 

 
Sometimes life confuses rather than amuses…and whatever it is…we are so much better off if we transpose and keep on living life with what we have left.
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“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim 1:7
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COST…NO CONSIDERATION

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During the Second World War there appeared an ad in the paper which read as follows, “Wanted, a tricycle. Cost no consideration.

Steel was short but little boy’s hearts still thumped and beat for toys…and in this particular case a tricycle.

And, yes, that is what our gospel says in effect, “WANTED, A HUMAN SOUL. COST; NO CONSIDERATION. NOT EVEN THE CROSS.”

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Heb 4:16 “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”

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IT IS ONE THING TO FAIL AND YET ANOTHER TO BE CONTENT WITH YOUR FAILURES…

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It was large totally consuming fire and when it had finished there was nothing left. The manufacturing facilities of Thomas Edison lay in ruins.

The next morning walking through the charred embers the 67 year old inventor did not sag and even think of quitting. He simply said with his usual resolve, “Well, now we have been blessed. All of our mistakes have been burned up. Now we can start anew.

What is success? Well, first we have succeeded by simply being here. By being born with life, this gift of God and that is a pretty good beginning. And having said that we have yet another success…for we have all endured failures and turned some of them into successes…or learned from them when there never was a success in sight.

 

And along the way, hopefully, each of us soon learned of our God and our Savior and how we are never alone whether we are shouting hallelujahs or weeping .

 

And slowly if we allow it…we learn to number success in how many good deeds we do rather than how many golden coins we collect…and by how many unforgivable hurts we forgive…and how many we do not judge even if some of them are busy judging us… and thankful for a spigot out of which flows clear clean water in a world where for so many this would be a miracle…because for them it has never happened.

And all the happenings and the variety of it all…and our great God with us to the very end and beyond.

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“I am humble under God’s powerful hand so He will lift me up when the right time comes. I give all my worries to Him, because He cares about me.” 1st Peter 5:6-7

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MORE ON MAKING THE MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE

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A famous coach of over half a century ago, Bob Zuppke, never passed judgment on a new player until he had seen how the fellow reacted to being hit hard.

One year at Illinois, a handsome 198 pound blonde Adonis with a great rep-school reputation came out for the team, and the coaches rubbed their hands in glee.

“He’ll tear the Big Ten apart,” they anticipated. But all Zuppke said was, “Wait, just let’s see what happens when he gets hit.” The Adonis made a beautiful downfield running catch of a punt over his shoulder and raced down the field, weaving and dodging skillfully.
At mid-field he was brought down hard from behind.

A couple of plays later as he about to be tackled in mid-field he slowed down. The next time he was close to the sidelines and he ran out of bounds.
Zuppke watched him all afternoon and when asked by the coaches where to put him, without hesitation Zuppke replied, “Third team, he has the gift to the best but he isn’t giving his all. He isn’t even giving half of his all.”

To give ones all is to bring about monumental changes and many folk are not sure they want to make even minimal changes in their lives. But that is what victory is all about…running rather than just walking the extra mile…extending a moral code to enthusiastic action…speaking the truth rather than monitoring it and perhaps then muting it…running the race of life all out…with the goal firm and clear and coming closer all the time.In this world we either discipline ourselves or we are disciplined by the world.
And yes…some are ruled by a sense of indifference.

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1 Corinthians 9:24-27
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

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PERSEVERE

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The backfield coach who only weighed 150pounds was jumping all over is 290 pound tackle and screaming, “If I had your physique, you big lazy good-for-nothing, I’d be heavyweight champion of the world.”
The 230 pound tackle just looked at him and replied, “What’s keeping you from becoming the middleweight champion?”
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"I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection
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There is an ancient Greek legend that speaks to life.

It is about the River Styx and the ferryman who carried passengers to the land of the departed souls. One day as the legend tells it, a woman about to be ferried across the river is told by Charon, that is her privilege, by custom to drink of the waters of the river and forget everything that happened in the life before.

And she asks, “I drink of these waters, will I forget all my suffering?”

“Yes” replies Charon, “and you will forget all your joys.” “And if I drink, will I forget all my failures,” And again she hears the answer, “Yes, and you will forget all your triumphs, “
“And will I forget all how much I have been hated?”

“Yes,” is the reply, “and you will forget how much you have been loved.” “Then”, she says with a voice firm and a mind made up “I will not drink.”

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POKING HOLES IN THE DARKNESS

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It was back the days before electricity and the little boy was watching the old lamp lighter moving from pole to pole.

“What are you doing dear?” cried out his mother.

“I’m watching a man poke holes in the darkness,” came back his reply.

And Jesus said, “I am come as a light unto the world.”

Indeed. someone once put it this way, “When I found the Lord I aspired to higher things. I perspired for better things. I substituted the power of prayer for the shrug of a shoulder”.

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“He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name's sake.” Psalm 23: 3

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SHOULD YOU BE SMART ENOUGH TO WIGGLE OUT OF IT?

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In Tucson, Arizona, a Navajo silversmith creates fine jewelry while many of his competitors are content to market junk.

His prices are no higher but his self-contentment is.

He explains, “I tried cutting corners. It was making false money. It fooled other people but it didn’t fool me. I look at my bank book maybe once or twice a month. But I have to live with myself every day.”

There are those who live by the motto, “Morality is for those who aren’t smart enough to wiggle out of it.”

And that the peril of it.

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Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

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AIN’T WHAT THEY WAS

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After World War II, 5,500 American flagships were swathed in cocoons of grease and mothballed in shipping bone yards.

By September of 1966 135 had been resurrected for sailing to Viet Nam. Their repairs cost one billion two hundred thirty thousand 1966 dollars.

A Bethlehem Steel Corporation, shipbuilding executive described their condition “The preservative grease on the hull and superstructure had usually hardened and could be removed only by sandblasting or with chemicals.”

 

It was a tragic and sickening picture of their once proud maritime condition.

And as I remembered back to that time I could not help but think that this is what happens to a man when he denies his destiny. Gives up on his future. Mothballs his soul. Takes up residence in a spiritual bone yard.

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2Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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Rufus Jones, one of the great preachers of many years ago, tells the following story on himself. He was just a lad.
His mother and his father were getting ready to be off to town and as they went out the front door, they said to him, “We want you to weed the turnip patch.” He said that as he went out back and took one look at the turnip patch, for the first time in his life, he understood that biblical phrase, “Everlasting to everlasting.”He never saw so many weeds. And just at that moment, two of his friends came by with fishing poles over their shoulder and they said, “Rufus, let’s go fishing” and he would much rather go fishing than weed any old day and they said “when we come back, we’ll help you”.
So they went fishing.But that afternoon went like no afternoon ever went before, like somebody was chasing the time away and when they got back, those weeds weren’t weeded, and Mom and Dad were home and Rufus was in trouble.
And he said as he went in that house, his mother just took his fishing pole from him and said nothing.

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He was a young man and he had it all figured out. He had not come to his minister for advice but rather to point out his well laid plans. With complete confidence in what he had learned from the past and what he now planned for the future he began, “I plan to go to the University and become an architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?
“I plan to become not just an architect but a famous architect.”
“What then?” asked his minister?

“I plan to marry and have a great family.”

“What then?” asked his minister? “I expect to become wealthy and retire.”
“What then?” asked his minister? The young man paused and then responded, “I see what you mean. Well, of course, then I will make my peace with God.”
“Why not do that in the first place?” asked his minister. Why not?Why wait until one has one foot in the grave?
If one needs God when they are half dead, think what He could mean to one if when still whole and alive the quest was daily made? Certainly when that last breath is nearer than ever before some get scared but what about when a whole life is ahead…why not be constantly innovated by this Father God.
Embrace the NOW rather than taking the time for God only a few minutes before there is not much Now left…for to do so is not only a cowardly act…it is a disappointing one. (rewrite of words by Gaston Foote)John Quincy Adams was no longer a young man as he walked the street at no too steady a pace. Someone asked, “And how is John Quincy Adams this morning?”And John replied, “John Quincy Adams himself is quite well thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and the season have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming almost uninhabitable and I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he, himself is quite well, quite well.”
The ongoing faith of John Quincy Adams is well known to any and all historians.

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As the man of great serenity told it…he reminds us that it was not always so with him.

He told of how it was in the late 1920’s and he was a very young and very successful businessman, making money fast and spending it even faster, in love with himself for what a tremendous man he was.
And then came Black Friday and the depression and he lost everything.

And it was too much.

Too much drinking, easily became alcoholism and he went off by himself to a small beach cottage he still possessed to drink himself into oblivion.

While there, he decided the best thing he could do was to walk into the sea, swim out beyond the point of no return and drown.So he, while the sky was angry red with the first rush of dawn, shakily made his way out the door, down to the beach and just at the water’s edge, he noticed something glittering in the sand.
He reached down, picked it up and held it gently in his hand. It was a fragile thing. He recalls how it seemed just the least pressure from his fingers would have crushed it, yet here it was, undamaged, perfect.

And then he realized he was asking himself a question, “How is it possible that this fragile piece of shell has withstood the pounding of the surf on this hard packed sand?”

And then it became quite clear.

It had done so by yielding to the frantic forces around it.

It had accepted the storm that had flung it there. It had accepted the stillness of the depths where it had had its beginning. And then this man explains his serenity. He puts it this way…
“All at once I saw myself, battling against the inevitable, beating my fists against fate, when I should have been accepting with faith. I don’t know how long I stood there, but finally, when I turned away from the sea, I took the shell with me. I’ve had it ever since.” And oh yes…all shells have names. The name of this particular shell is “ANGEL’S WINGS.”

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"The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?”
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EVERYBODY…THIS IS JIMMY

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This story is about a young man named Jimmy.
The minister who knew him tells it this way, “Jimmy was twenty-two though no bigger than a lad of fifteen. He could still work circles around the other men on the docks.

And Jimmy had something besides his wiry energy and strengty. He had soul, that special quality that makes a man hungry to feed the inner man.

Every day at noon, he’d go to our chapel and pray. When I got to know him better, I asked this rough young stevedore what he prayed.

He replied, “Well, pastor, I just bow my head and say ‘Jesus, this is Jimmy.” And then I just wait.”

Several days after I had spoken with him, I heard the siren of an ambulance and rushed to the docks to see who had been hurt.
It was Jimmy.

He’d fallen forty feet from some scaffolding and it had broken his neck.

As I looked down at his lifeless form I could almost envision Jimmy in heaven with Christ’s arm around his should…and looking at all the heavenly host gathered round…saying….”Everybody, this is Jimmy.”
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Someone has suggested that anxiety is dealt a staggering blow when we learn to cooperate with the inevitable.”

We make plans to run a race and break a leg.

We make an appointment and our watch stops.

We go fishing and the only thing we catch is a bad cold from a thunderstorm.

The inevitable is certain even if it is not always kind and the soon we accept it the better.

In fact, I have a favorite prayer I pray when my personal miseries are running rampant, “Lord, if I cannot like it, let me learn from it. At least then it will not be a total waste of time. Amen.”

 
Members of A.A. have a prayer that echoes these sentiments, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.’

When Sir Henry Fawcett was a young man of twenty-five, he was blinded in a hunting accident. He had just graduated from Cambridge University as one of its most brilliant students and the world seemed like an apple rip for the picking.

His own comments on the accident are as follows, “Before twenty seconds had passed, I decided that not even this would hinder me from achieving the highest for which I was intended.” 

 He went on to become a professor in Cambridge, was later elected to Parliament and finally was appointed Postmaster Genera of the whole of England.This man of faith refused to use this incident to build a tower of fear.
He could have collected a dozen or so phobias. He didn’t. He gave self pity the run around and perhaps this educated man quoted to himself word Longfellow once wrote, “Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.” Or perhaps he remembered the words of Isaiah, “But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.”
—Isaiah 50:7

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