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Mark's RemarksIt Only Takes One
Billy Graham preached a lot of crusades, none more important than the one he preached in Los Angeles when he was 31 years old. A few months earlier, Graham was emotionally crushed when a crusade in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had been a disaster. Billy even considered discontinuing his crusades…
Winning Over Worry
Dr. David Rosmarin…made the intriguing observation that people who worry usually do not have high levels of anxiety. A worrier experiences the illusion that he can control outcomes. The fact is there’s much more outside of the worrier’s control than he would want to believe. Worriers mistakenly think they are in control of much more than they are.
Don’t Do What You Don’t Do Well
One of the most critical decisions in television history and for my personal entertainment was made over 60 years ago. A young television writer and sometime actor for a popular TV variety series in the 1950s decided to write a situation comedy in which he would star…
Never Discouraged
As baseball season winds down, I am reminded of one of my favorite stories. It seems that a man stopped to watch a Little League Baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was.
“We’re behind 18 to nothing,” the kid answered. “Well,” said the man, “I must say you don’t look discouraged.”
“Discouraged?” the boy said, puzzled. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t come to bat yet.”
Perspective
One hundred years ago,* the bodies of two men were pulled from the Hudson River near New York City on the same day. One was a poor man who had won $5000 in a sweepstakes contest. He had gone on a spending spree and spent it all.
The other body was that of a wealthy man who had lost all but $5000 in the stock market. Down to his last $5000, he jumped in the river to end it all!
Perspective makes a lot of difference.
How much or how little we have matters little; what matters much is our attitude toward what we have.
Mark
Author of Holy Chaos How To Walk with God in a Frenzied World
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*The source of this story has been lost to history.
Life is Like a Boxing Match
Life is like boxing; you can’t leave the ring just because you’re getting hit. The fact is we all face trials and tribulations. And I must admit, I face certain kinds of adversity where I tend to feel self-pity, at least on the inside. If that happens, I lean into frustration and anger, which is never good. The problem is that in life, we have to expect the challenges.