February 3, 2005

[Rev. Doc]

The Need For Flexibility

"If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles."
Matthew 5:41

At times the greatest need of flexibility comes in situations which we want no part in or appear to be unpleasant. But in the end we shall endure to the glory of God.

Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. No comparable construction job ever before had been undertaken. With patience he laid plans for the immense building in this land of earthquakes and terrible tremors. After carefully reviewing the situation, he found that eight feet below the surface of the ground lay a sixty-foot bed of soft mud. Why not float the great structure on this and in some way make it absorb the shock of the earthquake? After four years of work, amid ridicule and jeers of skeptical onlookers, this most difficult building in the world was completed, and soon arrived the day which tested it completely. The worst earthquake in fifty-two years caused houses and buildings all around to tumble and fall in ruins. But the Imperial Hotel stood, because it was able to adjust itself to the tremors of the earth.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to help you be flexible in what He would have you to do each day.

"The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn."
~Anon

[Felix]

Hey, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing, Doc! ^^