77 Zealous Inches

(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.

Yup, it’s that time when this familiar request shows up on my blog. That time when I extol the virtues of the Activated magazine and implore you to contribute by putting your thoughts down on Word documents and then emailing them to me.

I need Activated articles, friends. Every time I’ve made my request known on I get good quality articles that (whaddya know?) make it into print and benefit countless lost and lonely on all corners of the earth.

It’s very simple. The topic is loneliness and depression/discouragement. I’m fairly confident that the idea is to express how to overcome or travail victoriously through loneliness and depression/discouragement.

So on this topic, I need a nice Activated-ish length article emailed to jkvern@yahoo.com by the 25th of July.

I appreciate your contributions and so does the Activated editor. New material is golden. You have the power to make this happen and I depend on you. Thank you in advance.

Friends and neighbors, the hour is now. It’s the 22nd which means that you have only three days left to obey your conscience and write me an Activated article on How To Get Stuff Done.

It’s time to have faith in God in you, to follow the spirit, to embrace the fresh new mindset that you are the one for this job. Maybe you could even write an article on how you pushed past the obstacles to write the article itself. I see potential there.

Thank you to the few and the faithful that have sent in something — I appreciate you exceedingly.

If you need further motivation, I’ll point you here.

So the details are as follows, again:

I need a short, Activated’ish length article written on any one or a combination of the following topics

Getting Things Done
• Teamworking
• Encouraging others
• Getting rid of clutter
• Not giving up
• Bringing the Lord into our planning
• Those who depend on the Lord will succeed

Deadline: March 25th
Send to: jkvern@yahoo.com

Thank you in advance for the gift of your words.