It's 2025! What Seeds are You Planting?

Today is this first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one! —Brad Paisley

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Okay, I Give Up

A third rate magician is doing magic shows on a second rate cruise ship

The pay is good, the accommodation is comfortable, the food is excellent, and the two show a day workload is easy. The always changing mainly elderly audience seem to enjoy his show which is unoriginal but has the polish of hundreds of repetitions. All in all, it's started out as a great gig except for one glaring issue. The captain has a talking parrot that he brings to every show. It has worked out how all the tricks are done and gives away his secrets to the audience after every trick.

***"It's a fake water jug Squarrrrk!" "The rabbit is under his hat Squarrrk!" "The girl is hiding under a trap door Squarrrk!"***

Now the audience finds this hilarious. So instead of coming to see a magic show the crowds are coming to see him being humiliated by a parrot, 2 shows a day, 7 days a week.

Utterly depressed and desperate, the magician struggles to find a spectacular new trick to wow the crowd and that the parrot can't work out. He eventually announces an elaborate disappearing trick involving pyrotechnics and a ring of fire, however the first night he tries it, he accidentally ignites a nearby gas line causing a catastrophic chain of explosions that causes the ship to break apart and sink almost immediately.

The next morning the sun rises on an empty ocean except for a single piece of shattered lifeboat with the magician clinging to one end and the parrot perched at the other end out of reach. The magician glares at the parrot and the parrot stares back, but not a word is said. This goes on for a day, then another day. On the third day the parrot finally breaks the silence.

***"OK I give up. Where's the ship?"***

Finally: Why We Fight

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight. Source

From Out Here On the Perimeter to Your Home

We wish you all the best in the coming year. Let’s be sure throw as much sand and tar in the gears of the devil’s plan as possible. It’s his turn to despair, and God has imbued each of us with the power to forge our own futures:

"If we are resigned to the belief that the parasite class have everything in place and cannot be stopped, then we will, absolutely, will that reality into existence. Every passing pessimistic remark we make, leads to apathetic and defeatist behaviour, followed by our actions manifesting in everyday life." —

Nicholas Creed

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The future is ours to seize. So long as our God gifted capacity to hope and to will that hope remains, choice defies fate; and thus does freedom defy slavery.

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

―Orison Swett Marden