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Lately, I have been talking to the animals. They haven’t been talking back, but I’ve been talking to them.

A man was walking down a country road. As he did so, he saw that in the distance the road made a sharp turn to the left. He reasoned that he could cut across the field on the left and save himself a lot of distance and time. As he prepared to climb the fence into the field, he saw a sign in the field that had been posted for persons like him. The sign read: “Do not cross this field unless you can do the 100-yard dash in 10.3 seconds or less. The bull can do it in 10.4.”

“Secret”—The word has a magical ring to it doesn’t it? As children we are fascinated with secrets, but keeping a secret is a difficult thing to do.

I love technology, don’t you? I’m glad that I’ve lived long enough to see computers become part of our daily lives, to have satellite dishes and video recorders give us freedom in what we choose to see when we want to see it, and to have, not only cell phones, but smart phones.

The church has often used sports as an outreach tool. Paul Powell was a teenager growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, when he learned that First Baptist Church had a softball team. He began attending and playing, and soon his involvement led to his salvation. He said, “I was willing to take religion to get the recreation. But I found something better than both—I found redemption through Jesus Christ.”

Edwin Perkins is one of the greatest inventors that America has ever produced. Now I realize that his name is not mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Alva Edison or Alexander Graham Bell, but in 1927 in Hastings, Nebraska, Edwin Perkins invented something that made a lasting impact on our nation. In 1927, Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid. There was a liquid concentrate called “Fruit Smack” that was popular, but shipping it was expensive. So, Edwin Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder. He named this powder, “Kool-Aid.”