"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." (Charles Swindoll)
Someone has said "Remember, if everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."
There once was an oyster whose story I tell,
Who found that sand had got under his shell;
Just one little grain, but gave him much pain,
For oysters have feelings although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate the working of fate,
Which had led him to such a deplorable state?
Did he curse out the government, call for an election?
No; as he lay on th shelf, he said to himself;
"If I cannot remove it, I'll try to improve it."
So the years rolled by as the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate destiny-stew.
And this small grain of sand which had bothered him so,
Was a beautiful pearl, all richly aglow.
Now this tale has a moral-for isn't it grand,
What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand;
What couldn't we do if we'd only begin
With all of the things that get under our skin.
"In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm."
I encourage you to claim this verse from the Bible. "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast" Hebrews 6:19a.
Pastor John Giesbrecht
