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Watch how you walk! I love sitting at the airport terminal..when I have to wait for the connecting flight, and watch people walking. The way they walk shows their state of mind. Some walk leasurely, some run, some gallop, some saunter, others are disoriented coming and going then coming back.... How do I walk? Depends on the time of the day and the activity I just finished. Depends on the company I am with. Depends on the goal I am trying to reach. So many variables in life. I start my journey when I get up in the morning. The way I dress and the way I "fix" myself will tell on what kind of a journey I am embarking. When you look at me you may discover my attitude toward the people that will see me and talk with me and interact with me today. Do I dress to appear to them as a pleasant person? Do I dress for my own comfort [or safety or advertising plan]and do not care what other people will observe when they meet me? When I am a salesman, how do I groom myself? Am I trying to tell the customer that they are important to me, that my product is what they need? Or am I careless and treat them as necessary but not too important objects of my attention. We are rich beyond description, in goods that are priceless, so priceless that they can only be given away free. The smile, the wink, the slant of my head, the twinkle in my eye, the handshake, the hug, the sound of joy in my voice...all these are the things we are required to "sell" to others without money. How many of us long for a friendly gesture from...anyone. How many of us are walking with a heart full of ache, agony, longing? When I get up in the morning I plan to look around me and see all the opportunities to sell something to others. Part of my "dressing" is reading some advice from friends long gone: Oswald Chambers, Ellen White, Moses, David...etc. One of those old friends wrote to me and said: Owe no man anything except to lowe them.
How simple is the formula, how easily fulfilled and yet how seldom followed. The best of my friends once said: use yourself to give to others what they need instead of using others to achieve what you want. When the day is done, the honey do's are finished and the pillow is most inviting, what then? Are you happy to have lived that day? What do you see? what do you remember of that day? Do you see the thorns in the crown on your head? the spikes in your hands and feet? the split side? the torn flesh on your back, and the spitle on your face? Or do you see the joy of a blind man whose sight you restored, the lame man leaping and dancing and praising God, the sick lady whom you healed, the little children whom you blessed, the tax collector whom you did not despise but befriended, the homeless prodigal whom you returned to his family, and to his father's home? have you raised someone from the dead? and seen the tears of Mary? My friend Paul wrote: watch how you walk, not as unwise but as wise. It is an art and science to know how to walk everyday. May you enjoy your life-walk today.