a time for everything lucky jamesevbouan
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There is a time for everything…
Lucky James Evbouan
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“Time is a great
teacher, but
unfortunately it kills all
its pupils” -Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) French composer
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What is time?
“Time, the subtle thief of youth”. - John Milton
“What is time? The Swiss manufacture it. Italians want it. The Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. I say time is a crook”.
- Peter Lorre (1904 - 1964) Hungarian-born U.S. film actor
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The perfect life…
We all desire an idyllic
life of carefree happiness, unspoiled beauty, and serenity.
But it is found only in happily-ever-after books.
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Too many things to do
in too little a time and too
short a life.
Time never fails to spoil the show.
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Time too short, the journey too long…
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An excerpt from a true story:
Goodyear. Rockefeller.
Pulitzer. Vanderbilt. Morgan.
Macy. Gould. Crane. Astor.
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These celebrated millionaires
represented only the most
visible names from the
membership rolls of the
powerful Jekyll Island Club.
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In 1886
some of the East Coast’s most prominent
millionaires purchased a coastal island
near Georgia for a hunting preserve and
winter family retreat. By the early 1900s,
members had informally linked together
to form one of the most powerful,
wealthy, and influential earthly kingdoms
ever known.
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Members of the
exclusive, clannish Jekyll Island
Club controlled one-sixth of the
world’s wealth, controlled America’s
corporations and government- the
railroads, the banks, the industrial
complex, the significant inventions.
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To understand how vast
this power was, consider these examples:
In the early 1900s, J. P. Morgan twice financed the teetering US government, staving off federal bankruptcy.
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On another occasion, at a clandestine meeting in one of the elegant private meeting rooms at the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, top government officials hammered out the first draft of the
Federal Reserve Act.
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Today,
the Jekyll Island Club is history.
Curious visitors wander among a
half-dozen restored building scattered
around the grounds. The overgrowth of
weeds, the peeling paint, the shattered
glass - all symbols of the futility of
man-made kingdoms.
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Except
those restored for tourists’
viewing, the posh winter “cottages”
lay in ruins, betraying the brief
standing given to the temporal
kingdoms of man.
Source: “The Man in the Mirror” by Patrick Morley
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We all have one little something
that engages us so much that we would give little or no attention to anything else.
For me, it’s a good novel.
As a result of our preoccupations, many other things in our lives are neglected.
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The glamour of today…
Our preoccupations today lose their glamour tomorrow.
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Add some value today…
Attempt something new.
Revisit what you have shelved.
Prioritize.
Add in family.
And friends too.
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Put your life in perspective
There is a time for everything
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Ecclesiastes 3
There is a time for
everything, a season
for every activity
under heaven.
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a time
to be born and a time to die
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a time
to plant and a time to harvest
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a time
to cry and a time to laugh
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a time
to grieve and a time to dance
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a time
to search and a time to lose
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a time
to be quiet and a time to speak up
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Don’t kill time. Use it.
“We kill time; time buries us”
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 - 1908)
Brazilian novelist and short-story writer.
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Make a difference
• in somebody’s life
• in your community
• with your resources
• with your time
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Do you ask
with Milan Kundera, a Czech writer:
“what can life be worth if
the only rehearsal for life
is life itself?”
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Indeed
But here we are anyway…
If only life could be lived rehearsed
We’ll know what twists to live reversed
What turns to avoid, ties to be severed
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Regardless, there is a time
to live and a time to give
account of our life
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Is Life really worth nothing?
Life could be worth something of value if we’d
make it.
Live well therefore.
Be Audacious. Hope.
Find the inestimable worth of this GIFT of LIFE!
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Your influence today could
• have a lasting, perhaps a timeless, impact on humanity
• wipe a tear now, or someday soon
• set the course of human history in a more purposeful path
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Look to God…
• Help will be found
• Priorities will be meaningful
• Peace, joy will be restored
• Life will be worth a lot more…
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Perhaps
the time to
look is
NOW!