Tuesday, October 2, 2012







Read Proverbs 16:24  When I was a little boy, I used to go to West Virginia for three weeks in the summer to stay with my grandparents.  Papaw had a small farm and worked as a plumber each day.  Plumbers put together the pipes in houses that bring in fresh water and take away waste water.  Papaw had a chicken house and sold eggs.  We had to gather the eggs and wash them.  Then we had to grade them, which means to put them in cartons by their size.  Papaw also had a hog which ate all of the table scraps.  He had a cow and a calf; the cow, which he milked twice a day and the calf, which he grew all year and slaughtered in the fall for meat.  From the house to the barn was a lane with bee hives on one side.  Hundreds of honey bees flew back and forth from the hive gathering nectar.  Those honey bees never bothered us as we walked by.  They were busy working to make honey.  Papaw gathered some of the honey in the fall leaving the bees plenty of honey to take them through the winter.  The bees made beeswax and put their honey in the honeycomb.  Papaw cut off some of the honeycomb for me to eat.  As I bit into the comb, the sweetest taste burst into my mouth.  The sweetness was wonderful.  King Solomon said that pleasant words are as sweet as that honeycomb to the soul.  Don’t you love to hear your coach say, “That was a great hit you just made.”  Isn’t it great to hear your mother say, “Good job!  I am proud of you.”  Don’t you like to hear your dad say, “You made me happy today with the way you treated your brother and sister.”  Those pleasant words are as sweet as the honeycomb.  Use good words to help others and to lift them up.  You can help them to have a great day!

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