AE: ANECDOTES WITH INTENTION

Side by Side

They lie on the Table side by side

The Holy Bible and the TV guide

One is well worn and cherished with pride No not the Bible, but the TV guide.

As the pages are turned, what shall they see.

Oh, What does it matter turn on the TV So they open the book in which they confide

No not the Bible the TV guide.

The word of God is seldom read. Maybe a verse before they fall into bed.

Exhausted and sleept and tired as can be. Not from reading the Bible, from watching T.V.

So then back to the table side by side,

Lie the Holy Bible and the T.V. guide.

No time for prayer, no time for the word.

The plan of salvation is seldom heard.

But forgiveness of sin, so full and free, Is found in the Bible, not on the T.V.


Anecdonet

Make Your Standards Clear

Personal Experience shared by Richard G. Scott at a BYU Devotional


One summer, as a teenager, I worked on an oyster boat off the coast of Long Island in New York to earn funds for college.

The other members of the crew were seasoned oystermen, hardened by the harsh winter environment in which they spent much of their lives battling the icy ocean and raw wind to secure their catch.

I was an enigma to them, easier to distrust than to understand.

They shunned me as a company spy, then as a crazy kid who didn't know how to be a man.

Later, I became better at my duties and tried to build friendships.

They offered to make me "a real man" by joining them on their all-night indulgences.

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