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us, we may feel God ought to do something about it in others. Haven't you questoned, at least to yourself, "Why doesn't God change her?" or, "Why doesn't God change him?" In actuality all the while it's really we who need the changing. The older I get the more convinced I am that one of the greatest temptations of the devil, and one of his most successful, is to become critical, finding fault and being cynical about things and others. Perhaps you've heard of the chronically critical man who went by the taxidermist shop. He saw in the window an owl which had been placed on a perch. Immediately and in his usual critical attitude, he began telling his friend what was wrong. The taxidermist evidently wasn't a very good crafts– man because the owl was obviously stuffed all wrong.The feathers were ruffled unnaturally, and the very stance of the bird on the perch was incorrect. Then, all of a sudden, the bird blinked and flew away to another part of the shop. Chagrined, the critic shut up and walked on. Let's not always be finding fault. Let's not always be looking at others, think– ing that they should change when we're the ones needing the touch of the Lord. We should be praying, "O God, create in me, give me, place within me, a right spirit." Do you ever feel you need your batteries recharged or renewed? I've a business friend in Atlanta who told me the other day, "If I can just make it to 2 o'clock Wednesday after– noon, then I've got the week licked. I'm closer to Friday than I am to Monday." What he had in mind was the fact that it seems too long between Monday morning and Friday after– noon with the anticipation of the weekend and two days without pressure. Maybe life has become a thing of drudgery for you. A few years ago I read an interesting comment in the "Dear Abby" column. It seems an individual had written, perhaps rather facetiously, to inquire, "How can one get the spark!e back in his eye so that he can enjoy again some of the experiences of earlier youthful days?" "Dear Abby"
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