Quote<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. – Antisthenes<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Two Brothers<\/b><\/p>\n
Rabbi David A. Nelson likes to tell the story of two brothers who went to their rabbi to settle a longstanding feud. The rabbi got the two to reconcile their differences and shake hands. As they were about to leave, he asked each one to make a wish for the other in honor of the Jewish New Year.<\/p>\n
The first brother turned to the other and said, \u201cI wish you what you wish me.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that, the second brother threw up his hands and said, \u201cSee, Rabbi, he\u2019s starting up again!\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
The Centenarian<\/b><\/p>\n
A reporter was interviewing an old man on his 100th birthday. \u201cWhat are you most proud of?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, \u201c said the man, \u201cI don\u2019t have an enemy in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a beautiful thought! How inspirational!\u201d said the reporter.<\/p>\n
\u201cYep,\u201d added the centenarian, \u201coutlived every last one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
The Scorpion<\/b><\/p>\n
In CONTEXT, Mary Marty retells a parable from the EYE OF THE NEEDLE newsletter:<\/p>\n
\u201cA holy man was engaged in his morning meditation under a tree whose roots stretched out over the riverbank. During his meditation he noticed that the river was rising, and a scorpion caught in the roots was about to drown. He crawled out on the roots and reached down to free the scorpion, but every time he did so, the scorpion struck back at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn observer came along and said to the holy man, \u2018Don\u2019t you know that\u2019s a scorpion, and it\u2019s in the nature of a scorpion to want to sting?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cTo which the holy man replied, \u2018That may well be, but it is my nature to save, and must I change my nature because the scorpion does not change its nature?\u201d<\/p>\n
Joseph B. Modica<\/p>\n
Eye of the Needle Newsletter<\/p>\n
Things that will destroy us<\/b><\/p>\n
Politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice.<\/p>\n
Mohandas K. Gandhi,<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Condemned Man<\/b><\/p>\n
Some Christians know so little of victory because they have failed to recognize a conflict. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. In THE GRACE OF GIVING, Stephen Olford tells of a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution, Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and enjoyed the friendship of George Washington. In Ephrata also lived Michael Wittman, an evil-minded sort who did all he could to oppose and humiliate the pastor.<\/p>\n
One day Michael Wittman was arrested for treason and sentenced to die. Peter Miller traveled seventy miles on foot to Philadelphia to plead for the life of the traitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, Peter,\u201d General Washington said. \u201cI cannot grant you the life of your friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friend!\u201d exclaimed the old preacher. \u201cHe\u2019s the bitterest enemy I have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d cried Washington. \u201cYou\u2019ve walked seventy miles to save the life of an enemy? That puts the matter in different light. I\u2019ll grant your pardon.\u201d And he did.<\/p>\n
Peter Miller took Michael Wittman back home to Ephrata\u2014no longer an enemy but a friend.<\/p>\n
Lynn Jost<\/p>\n
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