Don't Quit!

Perhaps. on this Monday, you feel overwhelmed with the tasks awaiting you.  I trust that this little story by W. Clement Stone will challenge and encourage your heart today.

     "I was six years old and scared.  Selling newspapers on Chicago's tough South Side wasn't easy, especially with the older kids taking over the busy corners, yelling louder, and threatening me with clenched fists.  The memory of those dim days is still with me, for it's the first time I can recall turning a disadvantage into an advantage.  It's a simple story, unimportant now --- and yet, it was a beginning.
      Hoelle's Restaurant was near the corner where I tried to work, and it gave me an idea.  It was a busy and prosperous place that presented a frightening aspect to a child of six.  I was nervous, but I walked in hurriedly and made a sale at the first table.  Then diners at the second and third tables bought papers.  When I started for the fourth, however, Mr. Hoelle pushed me out the front door.
      But I had sold three papers.  So when Mr. Hoelle wasn't looking, I walked back in and called at the fourth table.  Apparently, the jovial customer liked my gumption; he paid for the paper and gave me an extra dime before Mr. Hoelle pushed me out once again.  But I had already sold four papers and got a "bonus" dime besides.  I walked into the restaurant and started selling again.  There was a lot of laughter.  The customers were enjoying the show.  One whispered loudly, "Let him be", as Mr. Hoelle came toward me.  About five minutes later, I had sold all my papers.
      The next evening I went back.  Mr. Hoelle again ushered me out the front door.  But when I walked right back in, he threw his hands in the air and exclaimed, "What's the use"!  Later, we became great friends, and I never had trouble selling papers there again." 

Perhaps you feel the only song you can sing today is "The Fight Is On"!  But don't forget the last words of this great song --- "If God be for us, His banner o'er us, We'll sing the victor's song at last."
And also --- "Hast thou not known?  hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?  there is no searching of His understanding.  He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength."

               "Nothing is impossible when we put our trust in God"!