2012.03.26 Monday Morning Message

Greetings and best wishes from the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church in the heart of Vinita, Oklahoma.  


We want to KEEP IN TOUCH with our members and friends with our Monday Morning Messages.  We have asked them to send it to their friends, if they find the message worth sharing...that may be the reason you are reading this.

If you write me, with a prayer request, please be assured that I'll personally respond.

With blessings and all good wishes,

Richard

"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.

For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost..."

and so on.  The loss of the horse led to the 

loss of the rider, the battle, and finally

the kingdom itself.  All for want of a nail.

And, the meaning of this simple poem is

PAY ATTENTION TO LITTLE THINGS!

Little things have triggered great discoveries!

a spider's web and a suspension bridge

a singing tea kettle and a steam engine

a falling apple and the law of gravity.

Little things may have great consequences!

PAY ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS!

EASTER BRUNCH

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Top of the morning and best wishes from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, located in the heart of Vinita, Oklahoma.

My sole message today may be summed up in four words: "DON'T DESPISE SMALL THINGS!" To be faithful in little things is a great qualification for great things!

Perhaps the greatest fault of our age is that we are in too big a hurry to pay attention to small things which might improve our life.

What are some of those small things?

1. convey congratulations to friends (especially young people) when some success or happiness comes to them.

2. extend a word of appreciation for the work of someone you know.

3. extend sympathy. Comfort comes when one knows that others are sharing their sorrow.

Perhaps being diligent in doing small things prompted Emerson's fable, "The Mountain and the Squirrel."

"The mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel. And the former called the latter 'Little Prig'; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; but all sorts of things and weather must be taken in together, to make up a year and a sphere. And I think it no disgrace to occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, you are not so small as I, and not half so spry. I'll not deny you make a very pretty squirrel track; talents differ; all is well and wisely put; if I cannot carry forests on my back, neither can you crack a nut.'"

"Talents differ!" Thank goodness we're not all alike!


Peace,
Richard