Subject: The Three Stooges

Many of you remember Moe, Larry, and Curly, known the world over as the Three Stooges. These 3 guys, when put together, could make you just roll with laughter. Perfect comedic timing, lots of physical slapstick, and coming across as if this bumbling was their natural way, all combined to delight millions (& still do on reruns.) It took all 3 of them and they played off each other, the other characters in the show, and the audience. If they acted in a vacuum, with no room for other players or audiences, the lack of interaction would soon get very dry and dull.

There's another "Three Stooges" in my life, and, if you'll examine yourself, in yours too, that cause ail kinds of problems, sometimes funny, but mostly not. In our lives, "Moe, Larry, and Curly" have been replaced with the act of "Me, Myself, and I." Most of the mayhem, madness, mistakes, misery, etc., we experience are because these 3 occupy center stage in our existence. We don't really include the others in our lives, counting them as necessary and vitally important for things to "come together" in the right way. When our lives revolve around our own personal "Stooges," the show is woefully incomplete, dull, and boring.

God, if you will, is a “3 Person act also. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all work in perfect interaction, never focusing on their individuality, but on each other, and, praise God, on us. Their actions also work to the audience, the unbelievers of this world, to draw them in.

Won't you take a cue from the "Three Stooges," Moe, Larry, and Curly, and concentrate on interaction with God and the other people in your life today? I promise you will find the "show" comes together very nicely, when center stage isn't occupied with "Me, Myself, and I." Practice this acronym I love to bring "JOY” into your life and the lives of others around you:

Jesus first

Others second

Yourself last

Put this concept into practice and God will cause you to “get your act together”; it’s guaranteed.

                          Ben