Bulletin

12 WAYS
TO ENSURE A MISERABLE LIFE
David Swanger

1. When there is a problem, ignore it. Let it get a firm foothold and snowball awhile.
2. Always blame others for your faults and failures.
3. Look for the bad in every situation.
4. Dream impossible dreams.
5. Always put yourself first.
6. Never compliment or encourage Always complain, criticize, and condemn.
7. Feel sorry for yourself.
8. Set no goals or low goals.
9. Expect every situation and relationship to be ideal.
10. Every time you get discouraged, quit.
11. Believe that happiness is found in money and physical fulfillment.
12. Live yesterday and tomorrow, not today.

The Buzzard, Bat & Bumblebee
via The Chickamauga Chronicle, Chickamauga, GA

BUZZARD ... If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is it’s habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.

BAT ... The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

BUMBLEBEE ... A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

PEOPLE ... In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up.

“My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 121:2)