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When I was a little boy someone in the family (which often meant me) had to do the churning. More valuable than the butter was the lesson that having requires doing and that very little comes to man except through exertion. One reason we do not find more valuables is our inadequate search. We quit too soon. Our world has its good things, but ordinarily they are not on the surface nor in shallow water; obtaining them requires thought and sweat and patience. We can’t have the butter without churning the cream, nor the kernel without husking the corn. “He said unto Simon. “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4).
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