LIFE IS A COIN. YOU CAN SPEND IT ANY WAY YOU WISH, BUT YOU CAN SPEND IT ONLY ONCE.
Frank, the head and founder of a major contracting firm, refused to celebrate the holidays, saying only, "Christmas is for children." Then one brisk December day, Frank was walking to work and was drawn to a Nativity scene in a department store window. He saw the Child anew. As he started to move away,a sign across the street caught his attention: "Holy Innocents Home." His mind raced back to a Sunday school lesson years ago about how King Herod had feared the baby Jesus and slaughtered children in Bethlehem. He recalled the day his own son, David, had died at the age of eighteen months. He had not been able to speak his name since.
Impulsively, Frank visited the library and was surprised to learn that Herod's men were estimated to have killed twenty children. He left the library with a mission. Later that night, he told his wife, Adele, that he had visited the orphanage and that he had given money for the building of a new wing. Then he said, "They are going to name it for David." What he did not tell his wife was that he had had a vision of twenty children playing in a bright new wing at Holy Innocents. As Adele hugged him, the vision came again, but this time, there were twenty-one children at play.
Don't miss the opportunity to spend your life on something worthwhile. You may have several opportunities, some big and some small, but none of them be insignificant.
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." - Hebrews 9:27
Impulsively, Frank visited the library and was surprised to learn that Herod's men were estimated to have killed twenty children. He left the library with a mission. Later that night, he told his wife, Adele, that he had visited the orphanage and that he had given money for the building of a new wing. Then he said, "They are going to name it for David." What he did not tell his wife was that he had had a vision of twenty children playing in a bright new wing at Holy Innocents. As Adele hugged him, the vision came again, but this time, there were twenty-one children at play.
Don't miss the opportunity to spend your life on something worthwhile. You may have several opportunities, some big and some small, but none of them be insignificant.
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." - Hebrews 9:27
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