Summer Musings / All things Work Together for Good ...

    A boy in Decatur, Illinois, was deeply interested in photography.  He answered an ad in a magazine, ordering a book on photography.  The publisher made a mistake and sent him instead a book about magic and ventriloquism, and he began practicing the art of throwing his voice.  He created a wooden dummy to whom, at one time, millions of people listened on Sunday evenings - Charlie McCarthy.  Edgar Bergen had turned a mistake into a fabulous career.  

    James Whistler, the renowned artist, wanted more than anything to be a soldier.  He even entered West Point as a cadet.  But he failed in a chemistry examination.  Later he joked about the one wrong answer that had meant the difference between passing and failing.  He said, "If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a major general instead of an artist."

    Commenting on these two examples, Eric Butterworth noted, "in your own frustrating experience you can and should take a good look at a bad break.  There may well be in your frustration the means of making it fruitful!

    For we know this - "All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."(Romans8:28).

Together in His Purpose for Us,

Rev. Wayne