Make Sure Your Wishbone isn’t in the Wrong Place
Some time ago, I periodically would receive an email that contained witticsms that ministers had coined to put on the billboards outside their churches.
I don’t know if any of them were true, but I remember getting a good laugh from time to time from the puns or play on words coined by ministers who perhaps had a little too much time on their hands.
I see like billboards here and there in my neck of the woods, but I don’t really pay much conscious attention. However, one time I went by one of these billboards in my car and really only momentarily glanced up at it — but not before I had taken in the message.
It gave me pause, and made me say “Wow. What does that say about me?” This time it was no laughing matter:
“We fail when our wishbone is where our backbone should be.”
Ruben Gonzalez, author of The Courage to Succeed echoed this very same concept in an interview I was privileged to sit in on. He said “Stress comes from not doing what we know we should be doing.”
How’s that for a wake-up call?
So, what do you think of that? Where is your wishbone?
Where is your backbone?
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“Wishbones by Comparison,” flickr image by David Goehring (AKA CarbonNYC), under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License
