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It’s Easy To Fail
“You may be disap- pointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
Here are a few examples. If you want to fail at getting a job, it’s easier to stay home,
lounge around the house, watch T.V. and make excuses why you can’t go look for a job, than to get dressed and go out business-to-business seeking for a job, reading clas- sified ads, completing online searches and submitting re- sumes.
It’s easy to make excuses for the resources you don’t have than to develop a cre- ative, yet legal way to get what you need. It’s easy not to study and apply yourself academi- cally which results in lack of success in school.
It’s easy not to read your Bible, fast and pray which yields a spiritually depleted life. It’s easy not to go outside the four walls of the church and compel others to come by
sharing the gospel, lending to the poor, visiting the prisoner, the sick and the shut in. But yet you wonder why your min- istry is stagnating and lacks growth. Have you connected with the people that need what you have to offer?
Again failure is easy. Suc- cess is hard work. If you want to succeed start doing some- thing now! The quicker you take action, the quicker you’ll reach your point of success. I want to leave you with a quote I found to be humorous in re- lation to failure and success. Just don’t let this be you.
“He's never been very suc- cessful. When opportunity knocks, he complains about the noise.” Stop complaining and start proclaiming your success.
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Empowered Greet- ings. No one in his or her right mind wants to fail, but often-times many of us do. Believe it or not failure is easy. It doesn’t take much to fail. If you want to fail in life all you have to do, is nothing. I know you’ve heard the statement, “Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.” And that is what you get when you apply little to no effort toward succeeding in life.
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Birds Of A Feather
ow often have we heard the age-old sage,
“Birds of a feather flock together.” No doubt, we laughed when we heard it, but here lately that so- called “wives tale” seems to have moved to the head of the family, especially regarding multimillionaire Jeffery Epstein, President Donald Trump, and the company they both may have been keeping. In James Brown parlance, there was a time, so says Trump when Trump, Epstein, and others were fast friends. Supposedly, however, such friendship, if it ever oc- curred at all, is presently ancient history. As Spooner would put it, “The plot thickens”.
Mega-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of sexual crimes and pedophilia on a monstrous level. Along with his accusations has come a list of friends he kept in the midst of his crimes. Names fell like rain, and one of those names was a man who would become America’s 45th president. Heads rolled and guts growled.
As an intrepid news reporter broke the story, the White House went into overtime in wrestling with yet another tawdry possibility placing Trump in pos- sible harm’s way. One step away from impeachment on a litany of other subjects, the question loomed, would the Epstein debacle be the straw that broke the camel’s back? The world watched as America’s don jutted his jaw and once again acted as though his lat- est problem was only a mosquito bite. But history, perhaps, knows better.
Refusing to fire the Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta who supposedly cut a deal that saved the skin of Jeffrey Epstein, Trump adds yet another weight to an already out of kilter scale that long ago stopped tipping in his favor. But Trump’s skin is not the only item fearing destruction. What is most at risk is the trust of America’s allies and even worse, the trust and respect of America’s children.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to wallow with his flock of foul friends while the wings of our nation are salted down by ineptitude and continue to plummet us earthward. Maybe, the Epstein nightmare is sim- ply a bad dream. We should be so lucky.
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