Thursday, October 14, 1999
Thursday, October 14, 1999
Each one helps the other, saying to one another, "Take courage!"
Early one morning Annie went outside the cotton gin with meat pies she had made the night
before. Her plan was to heat them up so the aroma would entice the workers to buy them. At
first her idea didn't catch on because most of the workers packed their own lunch, but gradually
more and more of the workers bought her pies at a nickel apiece.
For the next few years, Annie never disappointed her customers. The workers came to depend on
her. Before too long her simple stall became a store carrying meat and cheese. Annie had stepped
from the road which seemed to have been chosen for her and cut herself a brand new path. That
takes courage. What new path is God calling you to cut?
(Isaiah 41:6
NRSV)
At the turn of the century there was a woman named Annie Johnson of Arkansas. Her husband
had left her to raise the children. She had very little money. She knew that there was no way she
could ever be hired at the town's cotton gin or lumber mill. She decided to cut herself a new path.
Dear God, give me courage. Amen.
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