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Failure/ Success
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 13, 2025 (message contributor)
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A FAILURE, A BASKET CASE?
Let us look at a man experience in failure. 1. At 14 dropped out of school. 2. He got a job working on a farm. The work was hard labor. He hated the farm work. 3. He lied about his age and at 16 he joined the ARMY. He could stand the basic training and he got out. 4. He got a job as a BLACKSMITH. The work was heavy and the heat was oppressive. He got mad and walked out. 5. At 18 he had an illegitimate child as he got his girlfriend pregnant. In his day this was a disgrace. 6. He married the girl. 7. He got a little apartment his family moved into. 8. He got fired from his job. 9. He came home to find his wife and child had moved out. She sold what she could and gave all the furniture away. 10. His wife took the child and returned to live with her mother. 11. He got a super job with the rail road. The work was hard, he walked away and quit. 12. He got financial assistance and went to college. He was not cut out to study. He quit college. 12. He tried selling insurance, he hated that. 13. He got a job selling tires that did not last long. 14. He got a job at a gas station. They did not last very long. 15. He went bankrupt. 15. At 65, for the first time of his life he had a monthly check, he started drawing a social security check: a big $105.00 a month.
At 65 everyone would call this failure, a BASKET CASE. He rent a little place along 25 in Corbin Kentucky. He started a little restaurant. He experience with spices and started frying chicken. He found a “secret recipe of 11 spices and herbs.
One day a big black limousine pulled in front of the BASKET CASE’S BUSINESS. The man and his wife went in to eat. A chance meeting. The man was a multi-millionaire and his wife had been Miss America. JOHN Y. BROWN and PHYLLIS GEORGE loved the chicken. Later John Y. Brown becomes governor of Kentucky. The millionaire said: THIS IS SO GOOD, I WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU. I WILL PUT UP THE MONEY AND BACK THIS. They called the stuff: KFC: COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS. When I crossed into Canada, the first thing I saw was Colonel Sanders KFC. In Haiti there was a KFC. In Israel there were KFC’s across the nation. Colonel Sanders went to church and accepted Jesus as his Savior. The pastor had prayed for a miracle. In one offering the Colonel dropped a check for a million dollars. In 1974 at my college graduation the poor man made a huge donation that made the local news. THE BASKET CASE became a millionaire and his face is known around the world. It is written The Colonel’s ideas were rejected by over 1,OOO to find a partner.
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