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There is an old song that says, "Whatever you can do, I can do better."  This describes the height of ego; it's also not true.    I can plow corn with a one-line mule and a double-shovel, but I know as much about computers as a hog does about the plan of salvation.
In an old Shirley Temple movie, Shirley told her grouchy governess that her duck laid an egg.  The sour governess replied with, "What's so special about that?"  "Can you lay and egg?" Shirley said.
Some of you may remember a dwarf kid by the name of Clint, who was Western Ky's basketball manager when Clem Haskins was coach.  Clint had a wonderful philosophy:"Everybody can't know everything."  The bible speaks of us all being given different talents.  Some folks misread them of course.  Former president Harry Truman's daughter Margaret was told by her parents and maybe a few tone-deaf, close friends that she could sing.  They told her wrong.  Margaret was a nice person, she tried hard to become a singer.  She would have been OK in a church choir, but....
The press said as much about her singing, only not as kind.  Harry had a short fuse anyway; ti made him mad.  He called "the whole bunch SOB's.
Misreading talents:  There is an old joke about a  preacher who said he got his call to preach when he saw the letters, G.P. in the sky.  Folks said he read that wrong, it meant "GO PLOW'.  I guess I pick on preachers and doctors some--but when I'm soul sick or body sick, who do I holler for the loudest-other than God?
A young, prospective pastor got up and gasped and wept for an hour or so.  Afterward he met with the pulpit committee.  The elder spokesman said to him, "Young man, we appreciate your concern for sinners, but we just want say one thing,  "CRYIN' AIN'T PREACHING."
Every head bowed; every eye closed-no looking around; or God'll get you.

Kindest regards....