Be content to be content
For many years, one of the nation’s leading producers of dairy products advertised that all of their milk came from contented cows.
For many years, one of the nation’s leading producers of dairy products advertised that all of their milk came from contented cows.
Though we may make long range of plans, the truth remains that there is not one of us who knows what tomorrow may bring forth.
While on a road trip from Houston to Phoenix, I came to a 12-mile stretch of road that was under construction. Two lanes had narrowed to one with concrete abutments on each side. The 70 mile an hour speed limit had slowed to 35 mph.
A blind man, sitting as a vendor on a street corner in a large city, had a lantern beside him. A stranger, made curious by the sight, walked over to him and asked, “Why did you have a lantern beside you, when as a blind man, darkness and light are the same to you?”
Some may remember the frightening warning that was issued to the people of Hawaii on January 12, 2018, due to some very incorrect information. An incoming missile alert sent the residents into full-blown panic that Saturday morning before the alert had been declared a false alarm.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin climbed out of the safety of their spacecraft and set foot on the surface of the moon. Scientists agree that because of the atmospheric conditions, their footprints will remain there one half million years before being erased by the bombardment of micrometeorites of the moon’s surface.