"Thank You"
notes have been received from the Children's
Homes for our April donations.
Don't
Swat That Bee
This quotation once appeared in
the Reader's Digest: "It isn't so
much how busy you are; but why you are busy. The
bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted."
That sounds good, but sometimes a bee gets
swatted as well.
In the church we have our share
of bees and mosquitoes. Some people work at
building the church, while others expect the
church to exist for their physical needs. One
gives honey; the other sucks the lifeblood from
the body. One group wants to serve, and the other
wants to be served.
Unfortunately, the bee often
gets swatted. Those doing much of the work of the
church are criticized because they don't do it
the way someone else thought it should be done.
Others are criticized because the lesson they
worked hard to prepare wasn't interesting enough
to suit another, and perhaps others are "swatted"
in that they visited the wrong people (meaning
not the one doing the swatting).
Let's protect the bee. We
certainly don't want him to become an endangered
species. In fact, while we are at it, let's
change a few mosquitoes into bees. That's
something we can do that science can't.
Robert
Oliver
Spring Hill, TN
(From The
Bulletin Digest)
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