Just Do It!

No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome

by putting them off till tomorrow.

It is only when they are behind us and done,

that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards,

and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties

unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant.

Accomplished, they are full of blessing,

and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us.

Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility,

and hindering our communion with God.

If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink,

go straight up to it, and do it at once.

The only way to get rid of it is to do it.

-Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910), Scottish preacher

So what do I do when no one is looking?

J.P. Hayes is as honest as we like to think we are
By Jay Busbee

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. John Wooden said that, or maybe it was Spider-Man. Whatever, it still holds true; being noble and upstanding is easy enough when you've got people watching, but when you're alone with yourself, when you could do the wrong thing (or avoid the right thing) and get away with it, well -- that's when you find out what kind of person you are.

By that standard, then,

J.P. Hayes is among the best that sports has to offer. More.

from Spurgeon

It is a vain idea of ours,

to suppose that if our circumstances were altered

we should be more at rest.

My brother,

if you cannot rest in poverty,

neither would you in riches;

if you cannot rest in the midst of persecution,

neither would you in the midst of honour.

It is the spirit within that gives the rest,

that rest has little to do with anything without.