Luck draws us for jury duty, but never for the sweepstakes.
A rabbit’s foot may be lucky, but the original owner wasn’t.
Real luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Tag: good advice
Happiness
Show me an optimist, and I’ll show you a happy-condriac. Now remember, folks, a pun is its own reword.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice. Often we find that happiness has to be cranked up; trouble is a self-starter. Happiness is a habit to be cultivated.
Judging Others
–Pastor Ward Clinton
The Left is Losing Influence
The left has been lying about the right for so long that they are finally losing their effectiveness and are properly becoming marginalized.
Let’s go right ahead and “Make America Great Again” in spite of the left’s intolerant foolishness. We’ll all be better off for it.
Mainstream Media Lies, therefore Trump Tweets
The “Journalists” have a difficult time getting away with twisting Trump’s words when he bypasses them and goes directly to the American people.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Faith of Reason
It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason or faith.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that out thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a skeptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, “Why should anything go right; even observation and deduction?” Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? – G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Reason and faith may, at times, produce conflict between the two but ultimately the work hand in hand. Shallow reasoning may fail to resolve the conflict but that is not the fault of reason or faith.
Reason without faith fails miserably and faith in faith without reason not only crumbles at the most inconvenient of timing but often hurts others in the process. The God who gave us the ability to exercise both calls upon each one of us, individually and then corporately, to humble ourselves and not only cease to do that which He calls evil but learn to do well.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Holy Bible Isaiah 1:18
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Losing One’s Mind
They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you get older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it very much.
I remember someone who was having a few memory issues and we were a bit concerned about her. Then one day she told us that as she was getting older she, herself, had noticed that she was having a bit of difficulty remembering things from time to time but all that was in the past because she was now no longer having any problem with forgetting anything.
We, her friends and family, were all looking askance at each other as she paused. Then she said, “At least, that is, I no longer remember forgetting things.” Then she laughed wholeheartedly, thanking us for being concerned about her and for sticking by her side.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
Hillary Voters, please read
Open letter to All Americans
Charlene McGroom Lester I’m going to let all you upset Hillary supporters in on a little secret. To those of you questioning now how you will ever be able to raise a child in a world full of hate and bigotry, saying this election has provided even a further wedge in our nations divide, etc.
Donald J. Trump will not come into your home and teach your children real values and morals, you will have to do that. He will not hold your hand and walk you down the street and tell you to smile when you pass a stranger, you will. He will not teach your children to not see color, gender, nor disabilities, you will have to do that. He will not teach your children to be open-minded toward others beliefs, views, and opinions, you will have to take responsibility for doing that.
WE are the ones that shape our communities, WE are the only ones that can solve this racial divide, and WE are the ones that can really make the difference in our lives, our children’s lives, and each others lives.
But, some things he will do is clean up this mess of a tax system, healthcare system; strengthen our military, back the blue, support our vets, bring jobs back, and go into the inner cities ghetto and start the process of giving them back Martin Luther King’s Dream,
strengthen our borders, and sustain our given rights as Americans. All so that you CAN raise a child in a safe and great America. The rest is up to you, and up to US as Americans. The days of handouts, the blame game, and participation trophies are officially over, let’s take on the responsibility of our behaviors and make a change in our own back yards. I’m praying for this and banking on every American to search their hearts and souls to do this!!!!!
Now…Let’s HELP make America GREAT again!!!
Closing Wage Gap
–Pastor Ward Clinton
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