STRATEGY #425

SURFING WITH JESUS #425052506
Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr.
gene@SurfingwithJesus.com
www.SurfingwithJesus.com

STRATEGY

What's going on in your community this week? In my community kids are finishing up school for another year and preparing for Memorial Day Weekend. Today, I placed flags on all Veterans graves in our church graveyard and displayed flags all around our fence to honor everyone in our community.

There will be several events around town. The Vietnam Veterans of America will head up an honor at our courthouse. Then, all Veterans will join the VFW and American Legion as they have an annual honor to all who have served and those have passed away this year at a local graveyard. After this one of the Veterans groups will host a meal and fellowship together in the afternoon.

One thing for sure we do our best to not forget our soldiers whether serving on active duty today or having served us in the past. Recently we were blessed to have many of our local service men and women return home after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

God continues to bless us and for this we want to take time to say thank you. Now for a thought for today I share a story someone shared this week.

Subject: Strategy

One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: "I am blind, please help."

A creative publicist was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and,without asking for permission, took the sign and rewrote it. He returned the sign to the blind man and left.

That afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten his sign and wanted to know what he had written on it.
The publicist responded: "Nothing that was not true. I just wrote the message a little differently." He smiled and went on his way. The new sign read: "Today is Spring and I cannot see it."

Sometimes we need to change our strategy. If we always do what we've always done, we'll always get what we've always gotten.

Chinese Proverb:

"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others."

I hope you have a wonderful day! Spring is finally here and I thank God that I can see it.

1John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

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