Today is Friday, January 26th, 2007; Karen's Korner #985

Yesterday morning I was getting ready to mail a birthday card to our daughter. We get lots of return address stickers from promotional organizations and companies, as all of you do. Sometimes we also get stickers with flowers, butterflies, or sayings on them, too. So I looked for one such sticker.
 
What I found instead was a sheet of stickers from the USO, an organization which provides entertainment, encouragement, and help for our service people. Each sticker on the sheet has an American flag and the words "United We Stand" written over the top of each flag.
 
As I peeled one of the stickers off the sheet, I thought about being 'united' and able to stand. Not just as a country, together on any topic, or against any enemy. But as a group, organization, church, or family - 'united' we can stand against or for anything.
 
But rearrange the letters just a bit in "united", and what do we have? "Untied"! If we aren't united, we are untied! Families which aren't united are untied; church families that pull apart are untied; communities, organizations, and nations can all be untied.
 
And like our tennis shoes when we attempt to run a race, if the laces are untied--we can be pretty sure that we will trip and fall!
 
If we are going to run the race of life, we have to do whatever we can to make sure are shoelaces are united, and not untied!
 
Jesus said in Matthew 12:25:  "A divided kingdom ends in ruin. A city or house divided against itself cannot stand.:"

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