"Is your slip showing?"

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Last month I told you about my “illegal operation” computer experience during a presentation. That story prompted someone who listens to life with us through our website at www.ListentoLife.org to write about a presentation experience she had. It seems her presentation included links and one link wasn’t cooperating. So she sat down to work the screen for a moment. She leaned forward in her chair, which had rollers for feet, and you know what happened next—that’s right, the chair flipped out from under her and she sat down, sprawled on the floor. 

She doesn’t have good knee strength which meant she had to get on all fours to try to get up. So here she is crawling along, trying to get up, while her audience is gasping. She tells them, “Don’t worry. Only my dignity is hurt, but what an attention-grabber!”

They all laugh, including her, reminding her that no matter how foolish she looks in life, God looks after her and still loves her through it all.

So no matter what happens to you today, laugh, and make a life, not just a living.

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"Today’s Labor Day. What do you do for a living?"

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It’s Labor Day, that day we annually set aside to honor those who labor in the U.S. So what’s your labor? What do you do for a living?

One day recently a delivery person for a shipping company came by my office. As I usually do with just about everyone, I struck up a conversation about his day.

He told me about a previous stop in delivering a package to an office. The secretary there started telling him about some problem in her life. Even though these folks are on tight schedules, he took the time to listen carefully, and be interested in what she was saying. It was if she had been waiting for him to come so she could unload.

When he started to leave, he said some encouraging words to her, and then said, “I’ll pray for you.”
“You deliver more than packages, don’t you?” I said. “You deliver blessings as well.”

Does your labor deliver blessings as well? Make a life, not just a living as you listen to life on Labor Day for what God has to say.

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"Is today a special day of God’s love for you?"

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Today is a really special day for me. Today is our older daughter’s 22nd birthday and my wife and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary.

That’s right—our daughter’s birthday and our wedding anniversary are both today. I planned it that way so that I would never forget my wedding anniversary. 

Not really, but today is a special day for that reason. I’ll always remember our wedding—all the family and special friends from growing up years there to celebrate God’s love with us. And then five years later, we celebrated God’s love again with family and friends as Rebekah was born.

It’s kinda hard to believe 27 years have passed so quickly, but then when I look into my wife’s eyes and remember God’s love for us, I know they have. And I have the same experience as I watch our daughter as a young woman. I know the years have passed. Each year reminds me of God’s love blessing me. And that makes today a special day for me.

What makes today a special day for you? Discover it as you make a life.

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"Do you ever get really surprised?"

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A young man bought an expensive gold watch from a jeweler. 

Soon, the man brought it back to the jeweler, demanding a new case. The case looked like brass, not gold, and the man had paid for gold.

The jeweler looked at the case, rubbed it a little, and then asked the young man, “Are you taking any supplements that have extra iron in them?”

“Well,” said the young man, “yes, I am.”

“Okay,” the jeweler said, “then that’s the problem. The extra iron comes out with your perspiration and has tarnished the case.” And he took a cloth and polished and buffed the watch until it shone again with all of its original golden luster.

You know, we’re like this young man, his watch, and iron supplements. What is inside of us always comes to the surface. And sometimes what’s inside of us tarnishes what we polish so hard, things like our reputation. So make sure you polish not just what’s on the surface, but polish what’s inside of you as well as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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"Do you ever get really surprised?"

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A guy in a taxi wanted to speak to the driver so he leaned forward and tapped him on the shoulder. The driver screamed, jumped up in the air, and yanked the wheel over. The car jumped the curb, demolished a lamppost and came to a stop inches from a shop window.

The startled passenger said, “I didn’t mean to frighten you. I just wanted to ask you something.”
The taxi driver said, “It’s not your fault, sir. Today’s my first day as a cab driver. For the past 25 years, I’ve been driving a hearse.”

Do you ever get really surprised by life? You know, sometimes we get so accustomed to doing life one way that when something changes, we’re really surprised. So surprised that we scream or jump up in the air, or yank ourselves over.

Well, when the dust settles, just remember that today is different from yesterday and will be different from tomorrow. The key to keeping it in the road during all this change is to ask God for help as you make a life, not just a living.

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