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Praise The Lord, my friends.  I wanted to share with you a story or two
that I have come across recently which has greatly impacted me and helped
me to realize that I need make some changes. The stories are about how we
handle things in our daily lives and their eternal impact on others. 

1.) In a book my wife and I were recently reading there was a story
detailing the lives of 2 young men. One was on the "nerdy and unpopular"
side of the spectrum and the other, while not being immensly popular, did
enjoy a much better presence in his school and group of friends. The less
popular young man was kind of a loner and of course an object of jokes
and other things like that. One afternoon, the two boys set out for home
with the less popular boy in front by less than a half a block or so, the
more popular boy noticed that the other boy was carrying quite a load of
books so he decided to be a nice guy and help the other boy out. He
offered to help him carry some of the books and the other boy accepted
his offer, after a few akward moments, since he was not accustom to this
kind of behavior from other folks. Well, the two boys went on to the less
popular boys house and things kind of grew over the years into a pretty
good friendship. A few years later, the less popular boy came up to his
friend and asked him to recall that day when the had walked home
together, and began their friendship. Then the boy told his friend he
just wanted to say thank you for being so kind, because he was going to
go home that night and end his life.

How many times have you thought you should have said or done something
for someone but didn't and later regretted it?

The other story I just heard today, from one of my clients that goes to
my old home church, Calvary Tabernacle, in Indianapolis. She said that
when she was in high school, she worked as a librarian in the schools
library. One day she seen on of the schools "hoodlum/druggie/losers" in
the library and something prompted her to give him a tract. She hesitated
and felt it again in her spirit so she went on and gave it to him, along
with an invitation to church. He came and got involved and got saved,
cleaned up his life and went on to go into the ministry  primarily in
Texas (?) He was a youth pastor and an assistant pastor in several
churches and was responsible for the winning of many young folks over to
the Lord. He died a young death as Assitant to Bro. Kilgore, who
testified to the fact that if she had not given him that little piece of
paper and a simple invite to church, Hundreds Maybe thousands, of folks
would not know the Lord today. Maybe even you or someone you know of was
affected by this man, during his lifetime, or by someone who was saved as
a result of this man's outreach. It's a small world, and we have a Big
God.

I hope you have been reminded as I have been of the extreme importance of
our witness on a daily basis. Yes, even on the Golf Course!!!


God Bless You,

Andy Barnett
adbarnett@juno.com

Andy Barnett
adbarnett@juno.com
------"There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just
plain yellow."------
***Read Ecclesiastes 3:1,7***