... kingdom of God and his righteousness." It is not in satisfying your craving to have more and more that you have abundant life. No, it is in serving God and loving others as you love yourself that abundant life is gained and lived. 1. Lee Atwater, "Lee Atwater's Last Campaign" in Life (February 1991). 2. Quoted by Todd Jones, tape #4. 3. Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon, Magdalena R. Naylor, The Search for Meaning (Abingdon Press: Nashville, TN, 1994), p. 74. 4. Ibid., p. 10. 5. Herb Miller, Money Isn ...
... of God. Who is rich and who is poor? Have you ever been rich and felt poor, or made your greatest achievement and not been able to celebrate? Or accomplished exactly what you set out to do and wondered if you had done the right thing? Lee Atwater planned and executed George Bush's 1988 presidential victory. He grew up with two burning goals which he desired to achieve before age 35: to be Chairman of the Republican National Party and to manage a presidential campaign successfully. He did both. Life magazine ...
... to them. Then they discovered how much people loved them. Then they discovered that they had resources they never knew they had. CERTAINLY, SUFFERING MAKES US MORE COMPASSIONATE TOWARD OTHERS WHO ARE ALSO FACING OBSTACLES. Do you remember the transformation that came over Lee Atwater, former President George Bush's campaign manager after it was discovered that, at age forty, he was dying of a brain tumor. He said, "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me--a ...
