Financial Tip of the Week: Pay Attention (standard:Inspirational stories, 908 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Aug 17 2013	Views/Reads: 4970/2027	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Enjoying a casual evening at home, I reclined in my favorite easy chair reading, while the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage was chatting on the telephone. I rarely pay attention to telephone conversations. After all, I only get one side of the conversat

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chagrin, that there were no credit cards to be found. Somehow, I'd lost 
my credit cards. Perhaps, in the morning when I was getting dressed, 
they dropped out of my wallet as I was placing it in my trousers. 

The problem with that theory was that all the other cards in my wallet
were intact. 

Fortunately, I had my cell phone and called my wife. 

“Honey, I've lost all my credit cards. I'm here at the restaurant and I
can't find any credit cards in my wallet. Do you have any idea what I 
did with my credit cards?” 

“I cut them all up.” 

“You did what?” 

“You said you supported my plastic surgery plan, didn't you?” 

“But, I thought...” 

“You, thought what?” 

Oh boy. 

Dear reader: please disregard the first part of this column. If you
happen to read my obituary in next week's newspaper, you will know that 
my lovely, vivacious, eternally youthful wife did not disregard the 
first part and I'm currently Resting In Pieces. 

I must confess that my hearing is good; it is my understanding that
falls so far short. The only exercise I am really good at is 
“jumping-to-conclusions.” 

This is common among many people who call themselves Christians. Their
hearing is good but their “doing,” is not up to par. 

The apostle James understood this truth quite well. He writes, “But be
ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” 
James 1:22 (KJV). 

It is not so much what you hear that pays dividends in life, but what
you do. 


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