I
have in my files a bulletin article written several years ago by a fellow named
Coy Roper. It is so good—I thought I would pass it along in its entirety. Be
encouraged!
Baseball fans are
all talking about the new base-stealing record set by Ricky Henderson of the
Oakland A's. The last time I heard, he had stolen 122 bases, breaking Lou
Brock's one-season record of 118, with more than a month still left in the
season!
But
before he set that new record, he set another; he broke Ty Cobb's old record of
being thrown out 38 times in one season, when he was thrown out for the 39th
time in 1982 in a game with the Tigers!
And
that reminded me that Babe Ruth not only held the career record for home runs
for many years; he also held (and still holds) the career record for strikeouts!
And
the moral of the story? To succeed much, you've got to try much--and expect to
fail often. The preachers who make the most mistakes are the preachers who
preach most often. The personal workers who have the greatest number of
failures are also the personal workers who win the most souls. Don't quit just
because you get "thrown out"; it's those who try often and fail sometimes
that end up succeeding.
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