‘Despair leads to death. The entrance to hell in Dante’s inferno: ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.’ - Secrets of Super Achievers by Philip Baker, Webb & Partners 1997, Pg 50.
A man is sitting on his porch in Kentucky.
He’s just retired from the post office.
His first Social Security check arrives.
He’s very, very discouraged. He thinks, “Is this my life now - sitting on the porch waiting for my check?”
He made a list of all the blessings and capacities he had.
The list was long. In the list was his mother’s recipe for fried chicken.
It used eleven different herbs and spices.
He went to a nearby restaurant and asked if he could cook the chicken.
It soon became the most popular item on the menu.
So he opened his own restaurant, then others, then a string of restaurants.
Eventually Harland Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise across all of America.
Pastor Phil Pringle
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