Napoleon said, If they want...
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Napoleon said, "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots." Little things, minor aggravations, minute annoyances tend to accumulate. On the international scale, consequences can potentially be disastrous. And what is true between nations is obviously true in personal life. What keeps us awake at night? The slight offense, an oversight or omission, worry, anxiety, or concern about something over which we have no control anyway? "Pin-pricks." They add up. Combine them with the stress which we normally encounter in the course of an ordinary day, add to them the multitude of things we fret about which never get around to happening, and you've got yourself quite a shoulder-bending, mentally fatiguing bundle.
Two television sportscasters were reporting halftime statistics as pertained to individual and team performances of two professional basketball teams. One sportscaster observed that a certain player had garnered twenty points and twelve rebounds. Graphics appeared on the screen to visually support his remarks. However, the graphics credited the player with only eleven rebounds. The sportscaster sputtered and would have made an issue of the discrepancy except his associate dryly remarked, "There are millions of Red Chinese who really don't care if it was eleven or twelve; let's go on." That "pinprick" was quickly put into perspective!
That Bible speaks of a peace that "passes all understanding." With Christ in the heart, there are no "pin-pricks" in the mind!
Two television sportscasters were reporting halftime statistics as pertained to individual and team performances of two professional basketball teams. One sportscaster observed that a certain player had garnered twenty points and twelve rebounds. Graphics appeared on the screen to visually support his remarks. However, the graphics credited the player with only eleven rebounds. The sportscaster sputtered and would have made an issue of the discrepancy except his associate dryly remarked, "There are millions of Red Chinese who really don't care if it was eleven or twelve; let's go on." That "pinprick" was quickly put into perspective!
That Bible speaks of a peace that "passes all understanding." With Christ in the heart, there are no "pin-pricks" in the mind!
