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by Fred Lowery


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Fred Lowery


'Each problem carries a past and a future ... If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate two thirds of the problem!'' Sidney Rosem

Robert Louis Stevenson, auth'or of the classic book, Treasure Island, experienced terrible health and suffered on a daily basis year after year. However, he maintained a strong and radiant faith. His success in living an overcoming life, in the face of adversity, is best expressed in his own wo''rds:

''As yesterday is history, and tomorrow may never come, I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my disposition by thinking pleasantly.''

As quoted in Something Good for Those Who Feel Bad, p.58

Tim Hansel tells about a saintly invalid, who was crippled, and had to spend the rest of her life in bed, who was once asked, ''Ho@,; long must you lie like that?'' She ansered ''Just one day at a time''. Divine help is promised for just one day. (Hansel - guilty , p 70)

''One today is worth two tomorrows. What I am to be I am now becoming.'' Ben Franklin

One Tick at a Time

1 love the story of the old Idrandfather clock who got to thinking how many ticks it had to tick. Said the old clock to himself, ''I tick two ticks a second, one hundred twenty ticks a minute, seventy two hundred ticks an hour, one hundred seventy two thousand eight hundred ticks a day and sixty two million ticks a year. The old clock mused to himself, i'm old and tired and there is no way I can tick all those ticks. I'm just not the ''clock'' I used to bel'' Finally, he decided he needed some help and he went to see the clock psychiatrist. ''Dr. Clock, I've been thinking about how many ticks I have to tick and I can't tick all those ticks!'' ''Tell me more'', said Dr. Clock. ''Well, I have to tick two ticks a second, one hundred twenty ticks a minute, seventy two hundred ticks an hour, one hundred seventy two th ...

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