Everyday Thoughts for Your
Everyday Life.
May 31st, 2009 by stephanie
Americans always try to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything
else.
Winston Churchill
May 31st, 2009 by stephanie
“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Psalm for your Sabbath.
May 31st, 2009 by stephanie
Psa. 121:1 ¶ I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
Psa. 121:2 My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
Psa. 121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Psa. 121:4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psa. 121:5 ¶ The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
Psa. 121:6 The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
Psa. 121:7 The LORD will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
Psa. 121:8 The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
May 29th, 2009 by stephanie
Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.
– February 22, 1842 – Temperance Address of Springfield, Illinois
– Abraham Lincoln
May 29th, 2009 by stephanie
Without being too loud and showy make your presence felt –
Don’t waste time on advertising yourself.
-Rosie Cash
Does Your Bark Match Your Bite?
May 29th, 2009 by stephanie
While scanning the morning headlines, one particular bit of news immediately had me doing a double take. Did I really see that right? Chihuahua takes on Cougar…and wins?
Sure enough, I clicked on the link, and the story began to unfold.
Apparently a pet owner that has two of what I refer to as “taco dogs” heard a horrendous cry coming from one of her pooches in the dead of night. As she raced to determine the situation, she looked out her window only to see one of her Chihuahuas pinned to the ground by a cougar.
Her second pup, unseen by the pouncing predator suddenly emerged with a frightful attack – of barks! Not a bite. Not a scratch. But they worked all the same. And the cougar slipped off into the night.
It reminds me of the story of David and Goliath. A young teen-ager stepped out in front of a fearful Israeli army that had been taunted by a nine foot giant for 40 days. With nothing more than a sling shot and five stones, the boy David, the future king of Israel, won. ( I Samuel 17)
If you are facing some sort of giant, you too can know that regardless of the odds. You can win. It’s up to you. Step out. Growl. Swing your stones. Whatever you need to do.
But take on the giant. And go for the win. You never know where you just might end up.
Just my thoughts.
S.
(Link for story on precocious pup.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/05/29/chihuahua.vs.cougar.kgw)
Leadership. Power play or Example.
May 28th, 2009 by stephanie
An advertisement that was published in The Saturday Evening Post, January 2, 1915 was brought to my attention. It had to do with leadership. Example. Prowess. Here is what it said:
The Penalty of LEADERSHIP
In every field of human endeavor he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone—if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging.
Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done.
Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by.
The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy—but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions—envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains—the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live—lives.
And the company that posted the ad? Cadillac Motor Company.
May 27th, 2009 by stephanie
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. – Thomas A. Edison
May 27th, 2009 by stephanie
What must be done discourages some,
Others become enthusiastic just visualizing what can be done.
-Rosie Cash
Plan The Work and Work The Plan.
May 27th, 2009 by stephanie
I can’t recall the first time I heard that pithy saying, but I do know that it stuck with me.
As I took on the project of my back yard and the landscaping it so desperately needed, I was amazed at the man hours, the planning and the calculating that would be involved. With that, I decided that I might want to take the plan in phases. How do you eat an elephant? (One bite at a time.) And off I went.
So you can imagine that these words from a devotional by Chuck Swindoll caught my attention. Pastor Chuck was talking about work. Finishing what needs to be accomplished. And I like what he had to say about taking stock before you dive in. I thought I’d share it with you. Here are some questions he posed that you ask first:
- What does the job require?
- What do you expect of me?
- What is the deadline?
- What are the techniques?
Or, you can ask the “how” questions:
- How does it work?
- How long will it take?
- How much does it cost?
- How fast can it go?
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