Dec 07 2008
World’s largest potato
25 Pounds. But who wants to eat this nasty looking monstrosity? Looks like a fossilized heart with an anteater’s head at the top.
Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat holds his giant potato in the … - Yahoo! News Photos
Dec 07 2008
Falling through the crack
This is a video of a homeless man in LA, I believe. He’s a superb singer and as you can tell after he sings, he’s quite an articulate person. How does someone like this fall through the cracks? Well, singing is a hard, hard way to make a living. And life is about choices. In America, very rarely are people homeless that didn’t make a lot of bad choices to get themselves into that spot. This is a land of opportunity, but many people try to cut corners and aren’t willing to live a simple life where, as Joyce Meyers says, “Get up, pray, read your bible, go to work, go to bed, get up, pray….”.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success said, “The Beatles had a musical gift, but what made them the Beatles was a random invitation to play in Hamburg, Germany, where they performed live as much as five hours a night, seven days a week. That early opportunity for practice made them shine. Talented? Absolutely. But they also simply put in more hours than anyone else.”
The hardest thing for many of us to do is to trust God that he has us right where he wants us. Because we all have it in us to want to be great, or loved, or respected, or remembered. We believe that fame will bring us these things. Sometimes it does, but learning to be content gives us the gift of blooming where we’re planted and finding joy in the journey.
