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Vol. 18 – No. 1916 May 07, 2016
Thought for the week: "A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul." – Charles Spurgeon
Wishing all mothers a very Happy Mother's Day ... See #7
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." – Henry Kaiser
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." – Henry Ford
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. We always have the choice." – Tenzin Gyatso
"Opportunity knocks but once; temptation leans on the doorbell." – Unknown
"Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Anybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." – Aristotle
"Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." – John Wooden
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lab and just sat there.
When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."
– Submitted by Michael Malone.
Cited in The Pastor's Story File, Oct. 2005.
Tutankhamen, the boy king, was only seventeen when he died.
He was buried with solid gold chariots and thousands of golden artifacts. His gold coffin was found within gold tombs. The burial site was filled with tons of gold. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife—one where they could take earthly treasures. But all the treasures intended for King Tut's eternal enjoyment stayed right where they were until Howard Carter discovered the burial chamber in 1922. They hadn't been touched for more than three thousand years (Randy Alcorn).
"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out" (1 Timothy 6:7).
Years ago a Southern woman was in one of my workshops. When asked to tell a story that impacted her character, she described an incident when she was only five. She was at her grandfather's house all dressed up in a white dress with a crinoline and new gloves, proud as she could be.
Her granddaddy told her she could go into the kitchen and get herself a special cookie. Next to the cookies was a stack of quarters. Sure that no one was looking, she took a quarter.
When she returned with her cookie, her granddaddy asked her to show him her gloves. She held out only her left hand and he said, "Show me the other hand." When she reluctantly did so and revealed the quarter, she immediately saw disappointment in her grandpa's eyes. He paused a moment and then he "hugged me up" and said, "Darlin', you can have anything in the world that I have, but it breaks my heart that you would ever steal it." Some 50 years later, this story of how her granddaddy gave her the gift of conscience still brought tears to her eyes.
Few things have as large an impact on shaping the values of a child as the sting of lovingly administered shame. It helps define right from wrong and gives a powerful emotional dimension to issues of ethics and character.
Kids, and adults for that matter, learn from their mistakes. Parents, teachers and coworkers can hold others accountable and remind them of their moral obligations without humiliating or condemning them.
What we can't do is just let it go, unless we want to send the message that it's OK. What we allow we encourage and we should never encourage anything other than moral excellence.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
"Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ."1
Lee Strobel tells about a mother from Costa Mesa, California who told about the day her three-year old son was on her heels wherever she went. She was having trouble doing her routine chores.
"Whenever I stopped to do something and turned back around I would trip over him," she said. "Several times I suggested fun activities to keep him occupied, but he would just smile and say, 'That's alright Mommy I'd rather be in here with you.' He continued to follow me and after the fifth trip, my patience wore thin and I asked him why he was following me constantly."
He said, "My Sunday school teacher told me to walk in Jesus' footsteps but I can't see him so I'm walking in yours."
The greatest way we can teach our children about and show our loved ones the love of Jesus is through the example of how we live, and how we model his love in our everyday life.
As another has said, "We raise not the children we want but the children that we the parents are."
Suggested prayer, "Dear God, please help me to so live that people, especially my children (and loved ones), will see Jesus in me and will want to follow in my footsteps and have Jesus in their life too. Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus's name, amen."
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