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What Do YOU Say?
Did you ever take time to really listen to what people say and “how” they say it? It does take time, something most people don’t ever seem to have enough of, but it can be very interesting. I first started learning to listen to what people say while working in my father’s general store. In…
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THE LETTER
Today my father Arnold Nauman would have been 100 years old. He was born on Long Island New York and moved with most of his family to upstate New York after WWII. His father, my grandfather bought a country general store and the plan was for my uncle and my father to work in the…
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HAPPY
Those years as a boy working and growing up in my father’s store, I started to understand something about a few people…Most of the customers who came in regularly would seem to be happy most of the time, but a few were almost never happy and it seemed like they didn’t want to be happy!…
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FOLLOW ME
This was originally posted several years ago, entitled “Keep it Simple” In 1976 while I was working full time in my father’s general store, I learned a lot with my eyes and my ears-and that’s where today’s story comes from. It was a weekday midafternoon, fairly quiet in that country general store. My father was…
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ONLY 46 DAYS!
What happens in 46 days? The first day of spring-when the length of day and night is about equal. And of course, the days will keep getting longer for three months after that until the first day of summer and the cycle continues just as God designed it! But since today is “Groundhog Day” I…
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BE BOLD The Conclusion
While the congregation waited for spring to be able to start building the upper level of the church building, they were all still praying for so many things that were needed to complete the building. One by one, in a way that I can only describe as continued miraculous answers to prayer, those needs were…
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BE BOLD Part 2
Before I continue, I should probably let you know that the information to write these stories came from Dan Gelatt himself. Dan came to my home twice and watched a DVD made from the original construction project of the West Smyrna Baptist Church. Since the DVD was made from old home movies, there was no…
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BE BOLD
In October of this year, Ruth and I went to the Celebration of Life Service for Dan Gelatt, he was 93 years old. Many knew him as Pastor Gelatt from his years as Pastor of First Baptist in Elkhart Indiana. Others knew him as Dr. Gelatt, but after all the years we spent together just…
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HOW MUCH?
During the years I was in the manufacturing business, one of the most important duties I had was setting the individual prices for the parts in our product line, as well as quoting custom jobs. So how would I even begin when figuring out much to charge customers for those various parts. It is probably…
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RETURN ON INVESTMENT
When I was a child I believe it was our great Aunt-Auntie, as she was known who gave my siblings and me a “dime book” for either Christmas or birthdays. She would place some “starter dimes” in it and we were supposed to gradually fill the other empty slots until we filled the book-$5.00, then…