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Vincent send little tidbits of thoughts, priorty email.
Some days I wait impatiently to hear from him.
This was one of his recent writings.
I felt compelled to share it, and his permission was granted.

Please meet Vincent:

YOU DECIDE

No doubt the gospel is quite free, as free as the Medal of Honor,
 which anyone can have who is prepared to face the
risks; but it means time, and pains, and concentrating all
one's energies upon a mighty project.  You will not stroll into
Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the
door open with a careless shoulder.  This is no hobby for one's
leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing
much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows
full and interesting...  It takes all one's strength, and all
one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given
freely and recklessly and without restraint.  This is a
life for adventurous spirits; others would shrink out of
it.  And so Christ had a way of pulling up would-be recruits
with sobering and disconcerting questions, of meeting
applicants —- breathless and panting in their eagerness -- by
asking them if they really thought they had the grit, the
stamina, the gallantry, required. For many, He explained,
begin, but quickly become cowed, and slink away, leaving a
thing unfinished as a pathetic monument of their own lack of
courage and of staying power.

Vincent
printed with permission







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