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Paucity of Prevailing Persistence

3/10/2013

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03-11-13  Paucity of Prevailing Persistence

An old line posits a man who lived next door to a man from China. One day he noticed the man from China digging and wisely asked, “Digging a hole?” to which the Chinese man answered, “Oh, no, I am going home for the weekend.”  Collected Stupid Questions/Wise Answers.
A wise man told a discouraged man who had failed often; “In life it is not the man that fails repeatedly that ultimately loses; it is the man who fails to try again who is the final failure.” Russell de Long.

Mr. Long is correct and Americans must regain the old fashioned courage to keep on trucking.

 Many, if not most failures, are the result of not getting our product or idea to the right person.

To illustrate, several years ago a man attempting to sell siding to me, insisted, pushed, cajoled and used every sales trick in the book to get me to buy. I politely shared facts that he should have known prior to the attempt. “Mr. Salesman, I just live here, I do not own the house.”

A parody of The Ladder of St. Augustine is true:
“The heights that great men reached and kept
Were not attained with much exertion
For they while their companions worked,
Were contacting the right person.”

To live abundantly, talk with Jesus.

Psalms 50:15, “And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”

Copyright © 2013  Larry Lilly

 


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David link
3/10/2013 01:39:47 pm

Thank you Dr. Lilly for another great article today. Sometimes we do not listen to those we are trying to communicate with and thus communication is nonexistent because it has become a one way street. Listening is an area that I need to do better in. Thanks for challenging me to do better and be better.

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Steve & Debbie Kissling
3/10/2013 04:58:45 pm

Dr. Lilly, Thanks so much for remembering us in prayer and for putting our prayer requests on your web-site. God has been very good to us here in Japan. We love our church family at the Light-house Baptist Church near the U.S. Navy Base here in Saebo, Japan. This is the same harbor that the Japanese Air-craft carrier left to attack Pearl Harbor in Dec. of 1941. The folks are a lot more friendly now than they would have been some 72 years ago. God Bless you and your wife, the dogs, and the Ministry! Steve & Debbie Kissling. BIMI Military Missionaries. Proverbs 18:24

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