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Great Spirits have always received Opposition

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“Great Spirits have always received violent opposition from mediocre minds.”  Albert Einstein

Who wants to admit their minds or abilities are mediocre?  Most people like to think they are of at least average intelligence and capability, if not slightly above average.

But when faced with great intelligence or success in others, they are forced to confront their inadequacies.  Most people would rather not do that, so they leave the company of the intelligent or highly successful who make them feel bad.  They really shouldn’t do that because the best way to improve is to learn from them and thereby improve your own standing.

Some strike back psychologically by opposing their ideas as if the idea itself is faulty.  By this action they can make themselves feel superior again without putting forth the effort for actual self-improvement.  After all, if they know more about some idea than that other guy, they ain’t so smart now, are they?

We see this dynamic play out often in politics.  It’s hard to get far in public life in America by being actually smart.  Voters usually prefer the “regular guy,” the guy “they can have a beer with,” not the highly successful types.  Besides, the usual dynamic of my side is right and the other side is wrong, there is also that fear of being shown up in the intelligence arena.  Better to vote for the regular Joe, and to make fun of anyone who claims to know better especially if they have demonstrated that they do know better ways to do things like President Trump has demonstrated and continues to do so.

“The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” – Albert Einstein

Keep praying for America and President Trump  —Pastor Ward Clinton

Early Bird

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Luck

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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.

—Pastor Ward Clinton

Happiness

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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.

—Pastor Ward Clinton

Judging Others

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The Left is Losing Influence

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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.

—Pastor Ward Clinton

Mainstream Media Lies, therefore Trump Tweets

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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

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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

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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