Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare

An eight-year-old boy approached an old man in front of a wishing well, looked up into his eyes, and asked: "I understand you're a very wise man. I'd like to know the secret of life."

The old man looked down at the youngster and replied: "I've thought a lot in my lifetime, and the secret can be summed up in four words.

The first is think. Think about the values you wish to live your life by.

The second is believe. Believe in yourself based on the thinking you've done about the values you're going to live your life by.

The third is dream. Dream about the things that can be, based on your belief in yourself and the values you're going to live by.

The last is dare. Dare to make your dreams become reality, based on your belief in yourself and your values."

And with that, Walter E. Disney said to the little boy, "Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare."

~ Author Unknown ~

  "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. "   

 Mark 9:23 

Kindness Is a Language Which the Deaf Can Hear and the Blind Can See



"I often have thought that we are a little old-fashioned here in the Ozark hills," writes Laura Ingalls Wilder in Little House in the Ozarks.  "Now I know we are, because we had a 'working' in our neighborhood this winter.  That is a blessed, old-fashioned way of helping out a neighbor." 

"While the winter was warm, still it has been much too cold to be without firewood; and this neighbor, badly crippled with rheumatism, was not able to get up his winter's wood...  So the men of the neighborhood gathered together one morning and dropped in on him.  With cross-cut saws and axes, they took possession of his wood lot...  By night there was enough wood ready... to last the rest of the winter."

"The women did their part, too.  All morning they kept arriving with well-filled baskets, and at noon a long table was filled with a country neighborhood dinner...  When the dishes were washed, they sewed, knit, crocheted, and talked for the rest of the afternoon.  It was a regular old-fashioned good time, and we all went home with the feeling expressed by a newcomer when he said, 'Don't you know I'm proud to live in a neighborhood like this where they turn out and help one another when it's needed.' "

For his merciful kindness is great toward us; and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.  Praise ye the Lord.

Psalm 117:2