The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Apr-1961) - April 8th, 2005

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[The Mayor]

It's morning somewhere..

April 8, 2005

Faithful Ambition

Read:
Galatians 6:12-18

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Galatians 6:14

Bible In One Year: 2 Samuel 16-18

In the late 19th century, a former student of Oxford University became the Lord Chancellor of England. One of his classmates became Britain's Foreign Secretary. A third gained an international reputation as an author. A fourth, Temple Gairdner, was perhaps the most gifted of his classmates but did not achieve fame and influence. Why? He accepted Jesus as his Savior and lived as a missionary in obscure and dangerous places.

Gairdner could have become as well-known as his fellow students. But when he decided to become a missionary, he wrote to his sister, "I have found ambition dreadfully difficult to cope with. It seems so natural, especially with one's upbringing and education, to look forward to making a mark and a name, and so awfully hard to resign oneself to living and dying tucked away in some corner."

We probably will not be called upon to make that kind of sacrifice. But are we willing to serve our Savior in radical obedience? To serve Him faithfully we must put aside our own interests, as Paul did: "God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Galatians 6:14).

We don't need to be famous. But we do need to be faithful wherever God calls us. -Vernon Grounds

Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving, every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay. -Hewitt

The world rewards quick success; God rewards long-term faithfulness.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Knowing God Through Galatians

[alfa6]

It's morning somewhere..

Never to late to look at the Good Word :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[The Mayor]

Just got home when I posted it, 3 of the 4 threads I post coffee on in the am were not up yet. I guess people were sleepin in..

Oh, I agree!

[tomball]

 

Interesting Facts about the Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Richard M. Nixon proposed it
• Dwight D. Eisenhower planned it
• Robert F. Kennedy championed it
• John F. Kennedy approved it
• The CIA carried it out
• 1,189 invaders were captured
• 200 of them had been soldiers in Batista's army (14 of those were wanted for murder in Cuba)
• One CIA soldier fired the first shot
• A volunteer teacher was the first Cuban casualty
• 4 American pilots and over 100 Cuban invaders were killed in battle
• One U.S. ambassador lied to the United Nations
• One U.S. president was embarrassed in front of the whole world

[Wneighbor]

Morning, afternoon and evening everyone!

Tax time. Ick. I gotta get mine taken care of tomorrow. With being under various medical constrictions all year I haven't done it. Yuck.

So, this weekend I pack and do my taxes. Hope everyone else has a beautiful weekend and the rest of you get to have some R & R.

[msdrby]

howdy ma'am! We just returned from the circus. 'twas a right nice display of talent.