Zero Injuries

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Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
February 3, 2014

In this Issue

• Zero Injuries
• Say Something Good
• Points To Ponder
• A Little Humor
• Quote

Zero Injuries

I have walls of books in my office and upstairs in my music room and some days I just pull out a book at random and open it up and start reading. Today I read about Carlos P. Romulo, who was a soldier, statesman and Philippine patriot. He served with General Douglas Mac Arthur during World War II and helped in the creation of the United Nations. Then he was Philippine Ambassador to this country and a former president of the U.N. General Assembly. When he left America for the last time he said this.”I am going home, America —Farewell. For seventeen years, I have enjoyed your hospitality, visited every one of your fifty states. I can say I know you well. I admire and love America. It is my second home. What I have to say now in parting is both a tribute and a warning. Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know that you are a practical people. Like others, I have marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God loving, God fearing, God worshiping people, knowing that there is a spark of the Divine in each one of us. It is this respect for the dignity of human spirit which makes America invincible. May it always endure.

And so I say again in parting, thank you, America and farewell. May God keep you always—and may you always keep God.”

Following his return to his home he enjoyed an outstanding literary and business career and he died in 1985.

I wonder if he could return to the United States today just how he would feel about how we had done, keeping God in our way of doing things.

Say Something Good

Blessings. I saw a man sitting alongside the road not far from Interstate 85 letting the sun shine down on him. After our freezing cold and snow of the past few days the warm sun must have been most welcome. He was obviously homeless and carrying all his life’s worth with him. He looked much like a traveling tent and he had evidently learned how to keep moving and withstand the cold, cold wind. Since then I have been sitting here counting my blessings; a warm home, a good bed to sleep in, hot and cold running water, an abundance of good food and the comfort of a bank account and a loving wife. In this fast moving life it is so easy to take our blessings for granted. We hardly think about them until somehow one or more of them is briefly taken away from us. Thank you God for such an abundance of continuing blessings and please bring the blessing of peace throughout this world.

Points To Ponder

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Little Humor

It was so cold here in North Carolina the pickpockets had their hands in their own pockets.

Quote

You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Recommended Reading

The Platinum Rule by Art Fettig

The Age Old Secret to Happiness and Prosperity. If you believe in the Golden Rule then, just maybe, you are one of those fortunate few who are ready to take a giant step forwaqrd in your lives to fame, fortune and a great new plateau of personal satisfaction.

Art Fettig has identified a little known key to wealth and happiness in his book The Platinum rule. I hope that millions of people discover this little book and apply this giving formula. Trul their lives will be enriched and certainly this will be a better world.” – The Wickman Formula, Executive Press 1991