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smokey the dog
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"Required Assignments" "REQUIRED ASSIGNMENTS"
I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but I work as a security officer at a large University Hospital. Each day I am assigned a different area to patrol. Different areas have different "problems" and concerns, but most areas have what we call "special checks". These are special areas of concern that supervision wants us to check every shift. They can be annoying, especially if there are a lot of them. You go to the area, and 99.9% of the time you find nothing, or just the assigned staff working. I was particularly annoyed one night when I had an area with 5 special checks in it. I went out and did them one after another, bam, bam, bam and documented them all. I was done in about 25 minutes. Hmmmmm... That wasn't so bad was it? Then I thought about some spiritual "required assignments". It works the same way doesn't it? We all put them off, and avoid speaking about Christ, or calling that friend we haven't seen in a while, or writing that note to someone who is ill. The truth is it doesn't take much effort, and the rewards, could be priceless.
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God's Warrior
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I have been trying to break out of my "busy bee" llfe to take care of some of those things, Smokey. You are 100% correct in your statements. What is done for Christ today will not go in vain. Some of the other "stuff" won't amount to anything by tomorrow.
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smokey the dog
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Someone said "the greatest fear is fear itself", Well perhaps that is true, but I think the greatest fear is fear of taking the first step.
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