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Tip-Off #60 - Time for Losing

Tip-Off #60 - Time for Losing

"For everybody there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven... a time to seek, and a time to lose." - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6.

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Feb 02, 2023
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Notes and reading at the end.

Tony was an inner-city youngster who was part of our family. I was like his father. He had just lost another job.

"The real failure is when you stop trying."

"You sound like school. My teacher says if you're trying your best, that's all that matters, and she flunks me anyway." We moved on.

A week later, Tony lost again. He cras…

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