NOW'S THE TIME TO MAKE THE CHANGE for Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110721

If you’re like me you don’t need no “thermo” – meter to tell you it’s hot… it’s all over the radio and TV how far and wide HOT is the mode!

Furthermore they tell you how many people have died because of this “heat event.” And that doesn’t contribute to your feeling of well-being.

You know what I find cooling? My Dad took me fishing as a boy, mostly in farm ponds and creeks – but occasionally when we visited relatives in Alabama and other fishing places we fished in TVA impounded bodies of water and I even went once with three or four other guys from the Textile mill – for which we all worked in one capacity or another – to the coast for a weekend of salt-water fishing.

It’s the place where I found out there IS such a thing as ‘fisherman’s luck’!

We pooled our resources to hire a 25 or 35 foot fishing boat off the northern part of Myrtle Beach… the others made the arrangements. There were four of us in addition to the Captain who provided all the tackle and bait and motored out beyond the breakwater a little after sunrise. First thing -- one of the guys got sick when the boat began to encounter the ocean swells… so he went below. We didn’t see him again until about sundown. So I think there were three of us tending the trailing lines from two outrigger deep sea rigs and one or two hand lines trailing over the stern.

All day long my friends hauled in fish fairly regularly – and I took my turn on the various rigs… but no luck – not one… I had zero fish for the day until I guess one of the fish got lost and bit on the bait the hand line I was tending trailing over the stern. That happened just about as we were crossed the bar coming back in – and the guy who had been sick all day came up in the cockpit and reeled in a couple on the outer rig.

The whole day, and I had *one fish* to show for it… and that one fairly small. We all used the same bait, the same tackle and rigs and the fish knew to which outfit they should come… It was not mine. So… that began and ended my deep-water fishing experience.

Well… fisherman’s luck – it’s not mine. (J)

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

“JUST A MINUTE”

NOW’S THE TIME TO MAKE THE CHANGE

Just a Minute: With the heat that’s got us all in a pressure-cooker frame of mind -- it’s easy to get those mid-summer, dead-head blues. Here are some ‘cool’ attitude changes for improvement.

First, in 2011 it’s only day 202 out of 365… and that’s a *long* way ‘till the major political or school events of NEXT year; you’ve got almost 45% of this year left. Lot’s of time for big improvement.

Haven’t been on vacation yet? Not looking forward to it? Well, even if you’re not thrilled your attitude affects those about you and can make changes for better or worse.

Now don’t go silent and tune out, or just play with your ‘smart phone.’ That’s pretty sure to make your family feel ignored or go ‘resentful.’

Check out this from the Apostle James – New Testament – Chapter one:

“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:” (James 1:19) That’s a great formula for getting along in any situation.