Following is a live of several
suggestions to “do it anyway” by one Keith Kent, dated 1968. I found this list
while going through my departed wife’s lifetime of scrap papers and personal
notes. I lived with her for just over seventy years and it sounds so much like
her, the lady I once admired as the epitome of God’s amazing and abundant Grace.
I see ten seeds here that promise a blessed harvest of abundant living, should someone
decide to plant them.
When I stop and think about how Jesus came as the incarntion of God, and I pause to reflect on that incarnation as God’s expectation for me as a follower of Christ, I discover that I hold in my hand ten seeds for planting God’s Kingdom through my relationships with other people. Let’s see what you think:
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered;
When I stop and think about how Jesus came as the incarntion of God, and I pause to reflect on that incarnation as God’s expectation for me as a follower of Christ, I discover that I hold in my hand ten seeds for planting God’s Kingdom through my relationships with other people. Let’s see what you think:
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered;
Love
them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish and
ulterior motives.
Succeed
anyway.
3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and
true enemies.
Succeed
anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be
honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can
be shot down by the smallest of men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight
for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed
overnight.
Help people anyway.
Help people anyway.
9. People really need help but l may attack you if you do
help them.
Help
people anyway.
10.. Give the world the best you have and you will get
kicked in the teeth.
Give
the world the best you have anyway (Kent
M. Keith/1968).
What I see here are Ten Commandments, if you will, for becoming the exclamation mark in what a Ugandan Pastor’s daughter means when she says, “I am the exclamation mark in the happiest sentence I could ever possibly write” (Nakazibwe Blessing Sandra Generous).
What I see here are Ten Commandments, if you will, for becoming the exclamation mark in what a Ugandan Pastor’s daughter means when she says, “I am the exclamation mark in the happiest sentence I could ever possibly write” (Nakazibwe Blessing Sandra Generous).
This is yours truly,
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