slow but steady.

we had our financial peace class tonight, and i had one of those "aha" moments...you know, the ones that oprah talks about. at the end of the lesson, dave said was talking about a time when he sat down to lunch with a billionaire and asked him his advice for successfully growing your money. the man told him two things.

1. you have to give.

2. the best reminder (for him) of how to grow wealth is to read the tortoise and the hare.

i think, like most of you, that i know that story pretty well. aha. but i never thought of it that way. slow but steady wins the race. the race has just started for me, and i pray that i can be slow, steady, generous, trusting, smart, patient and content with the resources God has blessed me with from now until the end of that race.

even though we're all quite familiar with it, i think the story is worth posting here.

A hare one day made himself merry over the slow pace of the tortoise, vainly boasting of his own great speed in running.

The tortoise smiled at the hare and replied, "Let us try a race.  We shall run from here to the pond and the fox out yonder shall be the judge." 

The hare agreed and away they started together.  True to his boasting the hare was out of sight in a moment.

The tortoise jogged along with a slow, steady pace, straight towards end of the course.  Full of sport, the hare first outran the tortoise, then intentionally fell behind chuckling at the tortoise all the while. 

Having come nearly to the goal, the hare began to nibble at the young plants.  After a while, the day being warm, he lay down for a nap, saying:  "The tortoise is behind me now.  If he should go by, I can easily enough catch up."

When the hare awoke, the tortoise was not in sight.  Running as fast as he could, the hare found the fox congratulating the tortoise at the finish line.

Don't forget -- slow but steady wins the race.

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