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Finding Our Calling -- The Meaning of Life
there is any excellence, if there is anything
worthy of praise, think about these things."
Do you know how much mileage you can
get out of a properly-used pencil? Thirty
miles--for a nickel, so the experts say. Along
the way, we want so much for our students to
be able to discern right-from-wrong, wise-from–
unwise, good-from-bad, and righteousness–
from-unrighteousness. It is important to put our
pencils to it, and remember that the greatest of
all gifts is the power to estimate things at their
true worth.
How many pencils can our students wear
out in a college career? Don't know. However,
while they are here, we encourage our students
to keep on developing a set of convictions that
will guide them through any situation or
temptation. Keep developing a quick
conscience. Never forget that integrity is in
short supply and great demand. It's a seller's
market! Judge everything that is said, written,
and done -- Judge it all by the Book of Books.
Whenever I come across Friedman's
"PENCIL"
example, I think of the diversity
found in I Corinthians 12:
For as the body is one and has many
members, but all the members of that
one body, being many, are one body,
so also is Christ.
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