From Where I Sit
By Dale Jacobs
| Odyssey Times
Editor
Sitting in my office staring out at the snow
falling outside in Odyssey, I like to think how peaceful this time of year
can be. I enjoy few things more than sitting inside in front of a warm
crackling fireplace with a cup of piping hot chocolate and the evening
paper.
The contrast of sitting and reading in the warmth and comfort of my home and
reading about all the chaos in the world just outside my window struck me
especially the other day when I found that, as often happens, I was reading
the stories without thinking about the real people and events behind them.
It happens especially with newspaper-men. We become so densistized to the
news that we forget its real.
And what can we do while sitting in front of the fireplace and reading the
news? Just that...read. Learn. Understand the events. Gain a better
understanding of everything that's happening in the world.
And what should our next step be? A step out the door. To step into the real
world, with all the knowledge we've obtained and do something about it. Make
a difference. And meet those people and those situations that we've read
about in the paper.
This
article originally appeared in "The Odyssey Times," a
special fictional newspaper produced by Focus on the Family to promote
Adventures in Odyssey.
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