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June 16, 2009 — Truth and the Energizer Bunny
June 16th, 2009 | 
Author: Proverbs 23:15-16: “My child, if your heart is wise, my own heart will rejoice! Everything in me will celebrate when you speak what is right.”
Life is energy! That’s what hit me as I watched The Buddy Holly Story on TV…again. “There’s a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on!” That song, written by Jerry Lee Lewis, set the theme for Holly’s work and short life.
Buddy Holly 1936 - 1959
Energy—enthusiasm—excitement. Just three guys, Buddy Holly and The Crickets, produced so much excitement that the music world would never be the same. And they did it without all the pyrotechnics and sound equipment that today’s rock groups use. They were at the beginning of a major movement in music that is still going on—forty years later.
What do we need to get some of that kind of “shaking”? Some of today’s biggest successes started with just a an idea and wisdom. And energy—“a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on.” But it was more than senseless enthusiasm. That shaking had rhythm, harmony, purpose, a message. All that working together produced “celebration.”
We have everything we need to cause a whole lot of shaking or celebration. Like the Energizer Bunny, we have charged-up batteries. We have opportunities to shake up our attitudes and rearrange them so we can be real movers in today’s world. We can shake up our ideas of living and produce new sounds that shake up and rearrange our attitudes for the better.
We can shake up the old ways of looking at health and illness, ways that have proven to be so deficient in the past centuries. We can help to shake the old ways into a rhythm and harmony that produce healing and vitality.
Such energy comes from having highest values in our purpose, mission and method. We can’t “fake it ‘til we make it.” We can make it because, as Solomon counsels, it is true right from the start.
Buddy Holly did not look like a music star—he was scrawny, with buckteeth, thick glasses, shy demeanor. But his love of music, his inventive style and willingness to take risks made him a star. Was he a great guitarist? He said, “All you need to know is three chords!” Was he a great singer? Not a Caruso or Elvis Presley, but rather tinny in voice. But he had—you guessed it! ENERGY!
That’s why I’m so thankful for each of you who shares a better way with people in need of wholeness and a life-enhancing purpose in life.
Let’s keep our enthusiasm (“God in us”) heading toward “a whole lot of shakin’ goin’ on.”
“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” – Sarah Bernhardt (1844 – 1923).
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June 8, 2009 — “Go Live with a Sears Battery!”
Proverbs 3:7-8: “Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.”
Since Erma Bombeck died, I haven’t yet found any advice columnist worth reading. She is the Solomon for today’s world. Here’s her “Ten Rules to Live By.”
1. Never have more children than you have car windows!
2. Gravity always wins. [Your bathroom mirror tells you that when the sags appear.] Accept that.
3. Never loan your car to someone to whom you have given birth.
4. Pick your friends carefully. A “friend” never goes on a diet when you’re fat.
5. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
6. Given a choice between the man of your dreams and a plumber, choose the latter. Men who can fix your toilet on Sundays are hard to come by!
7. Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna!
8. Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man or woman someday to complete a sentence for you.
9. There are no guarantees in marriage. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a Sears battery.
10. Never go to your class reunion pregnant. If you do, they’ll think that’s all you’ve been doing since you graduated!
That tenth one doesn’t apply to me. So I’ll redesign it.
Never go to a class reunion wearing a toupee. If you do, they’ll think you’re a trapper!
“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” – Erma Bombeck (1927 – 1996).