Quotes serve a purpose in our world, don't you think?  Bible verses, famous people, marketing companies, sports figures, or the "guy on the mountain" all express their views with quotes.

Many years ago, my son Greg and I would sit down in the evening and discuss his day.  He had ADD,  was doing poorly in school, needed to focus, and we took this time to talk.  Back then, doctors knew about this condition, however, the treatment wasn't something we did not want to pursue. 

Our treatment , or diagnosis, was to focus more, and take life for Greg in smaller bits, so we decided to read a chapter a night from the book "One Minute Wisdom" and then discuss what Greg read.  Now these chapters were usually one page, a couple of sentences, or bible verses, the reading part was easy....the discussion that followed was the best part.

I never realized how important these "talks" were to Greg (I guess I didn't either....until now).  Fast forward 25 years ....Greg asked me yesterday a question regarding motivation and wondered if I still had that book we used to read together.

  "Sure, I do why?"  "I remember the story about the antelope needing to run fast and the lion starving, do you remember how it went?"  We almost in unison said this: 

"Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest antelope or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or an antelope-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." 

You could say we were focused, and now he will be telling these same stories to my Grandson.

Dick Beals