It’s an absolute
shame and a total sham of representation the American public is receiving, and
pathetically accepting without logic, from our federal, state and local
governments. The business that our representatives have been elected and hired
for is being greatly ignored while they are going about sticking their noses in
everybody else’s business. I want to know why my tax dollars are being
misappropriated and used for things I disapprove of. And what is the U.S.
Congress doing about those who are trying to overthrow my country and destroy
our God-gifted Constitution and my civil rights? Me thinks I doth not protest
enough! We can allow this elephant-size can to be kicked down the road just so
long, but eventually it’s going to have to be dealt with; someday.
[Proverbs 27:1] A
couple of boys learned a valuable lesson one day at the hand of an old country
store grocer. They asked the grocer for some free candy. He said, “Come back
tomorrow and I will give you some.” The next day came and rushing into the
store the boys asked for the promised candy. The grocer smiled and said, “I
told you I would give it to you TOMORROW!” Even as children, the boys
understood that tomorrow would never come. “I’ll do it later; I’ll do it when I
get around to it; I’ll do it tomorrow!” Will tomorrow ever come? We keep
putting things off as if we have the promise of tomorrow. We don’t! Solomon
wrote, “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”
The fancy word for tomorrow is, “procrastination.” To procrastinate is, “to put
off doing something until a future time.” Procrastination is unproductive to
our lives, frustrating to those in our lives and dangerous to all of our souls.
* Mary Todd Lincoln compared procrastination to an evil genius who whispers,
“Tarry ‘til a more convenient season.” * Edward Young said, “Procrastination is
the thief of time.” * Wayne Gretzky said, “Procrastination is one of the most
common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is
heavy.” * Christopher Parker said, “Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s
a lot of fun until you get the bill.” * Jimmy Lyons said, “Tomorrow is the only
day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” * Edward Young also said,
“Tomorrow is the day that idlers work, and fools reform.” * Think what
procrastination does to our productivity. Thomas W. Bonham says, “Never do
today what can be put off till tomorrow.” * Mark Twain said, “Never put off
until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” * H.G. Bohn said, “One
of these days is none of these days.” * There is an old Scottish proverb that
says, “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” * Mignon
McLaughlin said, “Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till
tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.” * Think what
procrastination does to our perspective. Olin Miller said, “If you want to make
an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting it off.” * George Claude
Lorimer said, “Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard
thing makes it impossible.” * Charles Kingsley said, “Every duty that is bidden
to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.” * William James said,
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” *
The best way to get something done is to begin! Benjamin Franklin was right
when he said, “You may delay, but time will not.” * Solomon exhorted, “Whatever
your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead,
where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor
wisdom” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). Dare I remind you? “Someday, is not a day of the
week.”