Getting More Out Of Life In America

  The story is told of a young preacher, who was invited to speak at a small local church. The local pastor there wanted to thank his guest speaker, so he took up a special offering at the end of the service. The small church only had around 40 members total. The guest speaker was seated up front in the first row therefore, the offering plate was passed to him first. The young preacher reached into his pocket and realized he had only three dollars. The preacher  wanted to save two dollars to buy his young boy lunch after the service. The preacher knew the offering would be small so he placed one dollar into the offering plate,  confident that he had made the right decision he passed the offering plate to the next person,  the next person seeing the young preacher only give a dollar and not,  wanting the preacher to feel up staged in any way also gave a dollar.The other members of the church all followed suit and only gave a dollar. When the offering was collected it totaled 40 dollars. the young preacher told his son later,  I  might have gotten three times as much if I would have given the the three dollars I had in my pocket in the first place. The young son thought about what his father had said,  he than said to his father, ' in other words dad if you had put more into the offering plate you would have gotten more out of it.'
  The same can be said of a lot of things in life.If  you want your children to have a better chance for success in America, then make a personal investment in the lives of your children. The more time and sincere interest invested, the better future you make for your children, much like the preachers offering the more time you put into your children's future the better future they get out of it. As always, my friends, these thoughts remain, just some thoughts to think on.