Friday, Febuary 28, 2014

JIM WALL

Good Morning!

Some of you may remember the ice cream truck that ran
through Meridian on hot summer days.  My favorite was the
grape snow­cone.

I remember a young mother who had two children.  She
gave the oldest child the money to buy snow­cones for the
family.  She told the child to buy her “anything but banana.”
She believed she was making it easy for the child to choose
a suitable flavor.  When the child returned with the treats,
the mother asked, “What did you get me?” “Banana!” was
the reply.  But I told you anything but banana!”  It was all I
could think of,” the child said.

Overloading the child’s memory with the negative – what
she shouldn’t choose – wiped out the positive – what she
could have chosen.

Are you guilty of emphasizing the negative instead of
stressing the positive; or majoring on the minor?  If you fail
to get what you really want, you may have no one to blame
but yourself.