(Insert guilty acknowledgment that I haven’t posted for awhile. That being done…)

Friends, you have a choice over these next five days. I need good-quality Activated articles. The Activated editors need good quality Activated articles. The world needs good quality Activated articles.

What can you do about this? You have a choice. Over the next five days you will have approximately 96 waking hours. Surely one or two can of those hours be spent in putting your godly Christian thoughts down on paper for the benefit of countless thousands who will read it in an Activated magazine.

Sure, you could instead spend that hour folding laundry, coloring flashcards, researching online, plucking your eyebrows or taking Facebook quizzes.

But why not invest that hour in something that will benefit thousands of other other people, not to mention your friend Jules and her eager editors? The laundry will eventually get folded, the flashcards will get colored, you will eventually decide on what purchase to make after researching online, you know that you will eventually pluck your eyebrows and that Facebook quiz will always be there tomorrow. These things will eventually happen and the delay of a day will not, I think, set you back in any way that is significant.

But this opportunity will pass. From my heart of hearts I implore you to consider the implications of how you choose to spend that extra hour or two. Invest it in the future edification of the world.

Deadline is July 25th, the topic is loneliness and depression/discouragement, and you can send your contributions to jkvern@yahoo.com

Do this and prosper.