'A SOUR EXPERIENCE'
When Little Ronnie and his cousin were just seven years old, they walked into the old fashioned, if not antiquated drug store across the street from the family homestead at 515 West Colvin Street. After entering, and climbing up on a stool, they asked the soda jerk for a lemonade. Taking one slurp of the rather tart concoction they made a face at each other and left the premises.
Crossing the street and heading home they thought to themselves, 'what a terrible lemonade'! Giving this some thought they mused, 'let's open a lemonade stand on the corner." "If we do a good enough job, people will buy all of their lemonade from us and not the drugstore". So, they set about their new found project with much excitement and anticipation. Now, understand: It was their full intention to put the drug store out of business.
Once open, they waved aggressively at every car passing by (as boys would do), and they sold an acceptable amount of lemonade. When the weekend came to an end, they closed up their lemonade stand; headed back inside '515', as we called it, and counted what was a fair amount of money for such a modest effort.
The next morning, when they rose from sleep, they anxiously looked across the street. Much to their disappointment the drug store was still open for business! As the story goes, they never opened another lemonade stand!
So what is the moral to the story?
Don't be afraid to dream.
Don't be afraid to act on those dreams.
Don't let failure stop you from dreaming again.
2 Chronicles 15:7 "But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded."
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