Ecclesiastes 12:10

  Thomas Jefferson once wisely said, “If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.”  Let’s face it we will mess things up. We say what we shouldn’t do what we wish we wouldn’t, and regret not doing what we thought we couldn’t.  Our response many times is to try to justify, try to ignore, try to do just about anything but face up to our wrong. Yet that makes things a whole lot worse.  In Matthew 5:23-25 we read: " Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.”  If you are wrong, don’t just admit it. Do it quickly. The longer you take th...

  It all came down to a missed phone call.   Hulk Hogan, the famous wrestling star, missed a call from his agent about a possible endorsement deal.  Now the story has shifted over the years, but basically, his agent had set up some potential sponsorship on some kitchen items. These companies felt a celebrity name on their product could rocket them to success. Hulk favored a meatball maker but the agent had another product in mind.  So he rang up Hogan. But he never answered.   So the agent moved on to his next client to see if he wanted to put his name on a personal grilling machine. That client, ex-boxer George Forman, took the call and the offer.  Currently 100 million George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machines have now been sold worldwide. It is estimated that Forman has made over 500 million dollars from that deal, more than he made in his entire boxing career.  I bet the Hulk wishes he had answered his phone. ...