Get rid of them!

I came out of the restaurant on Saturday and would have jumped in my car and driven off. However, there was a man of forty some years old leaning against his van smoking. 
On an impulse I walked up to him and asked him if he had ever thought about quitting. He nodded his head as he blew smoke from the side of his mouth. I told him that the man who was talking to him would save him $30,000:00 if he would listen. I had his immediate attention and for the next ten minutes I laid out some tried and true ways of quitting smoking. This involved the "push" of describing in detail an horrible death through lung cancer and the "pull" of the money that he would save at the rate of $ 10:00 a day for the next twenty years.
Then I came to the punch line of inhaling the Spirit of God into his heart instead a noxious stream of poison into his lungs.
Right there and then he clasped my hand and took a 'deep breath of Jesus' and then proclaimed "I have had my last cigarette".
He followed that up by crushing his remaining supply.
Two days later I phoned him and he was still weed free.

Hallelujah!  Ten minutes well spent may have ensured that this man would live to see his grandchildren.

Jubilate.

Ian

The heart of a champion

I follow golf when I have the time. Today was the last round of the U.S. Open. It was won by Martin Kaymer the first German to win golf's most coveted trophy. But the truly inspiring story belonged to the runner up, Erik Compton. His is on his third life. At nine years old, diagnosed with an untreatable heart ailment, he received a transplant from a 12 year old Miami girl. That heart lasted for 15 years until a nearly fatal episode on a golf course. That put Compton back into the surgeon's hands and he received his second transplant (his third heart)
Now, two years later, he is runner-up at the U.S. Open.
Compton recounted words from his father who said: "Erik, instead of looking at yourself as a victim, just be glad you are alive."

Have you been having a tough time recently? Feeling sorry for yourself? Get a transplant in your attitude and thank God you are alive.

Jubilate.

Ian