Emphasis Preaching Journal

Sometimes it is not easy to remember that each of us is as important as the next. But a third-grade boy, Anthony Rountos, adequately recorded this fact in a letter to a nursing home resident. "Everybody knows that God made people for a purpose," Anthony wrote. "The nice thing about getting old is that maybe you have discovered why God made you. And if you do not know, maybe you have not finished your job on earth. Your job can be something the whole world will know or something as small as a piece of sand on the beach. Without every piece of sand, you have no beach." -- Winifred