The Ottoman Society

A Fine Furniture Consignment Shop

We invite you to a unique buying and selling experience in our bright and welcoming store. Find exceptional consignment items or bring us your treasures, Monday thru Saturday.

Jill Wightman & Jennifer Morales

13408

Watertown Plank Road

Elm Grove, WI

(Located behind Great Harvest Bread)

262-786-1786 www.theottomansociety.com celebrate our 45th annual Milwaukee’s

Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10-5 pm. Thursdays, 10-7pm.

Vintage Glass Show

Saturday, October 21, 10-5 pm Sunday, October 22, 11-3 pm

~ Featuring the Best in ~ Elegant Glass, Mid-Century Glass, Depression Era Glass, Kitchen Glassware & American Dinnerware Knights of Columbus Hall 732 Badger Avenue

South Milwaukee, WI 53172

For more info call 414-551-2017 or email: degswisconsin@gmail.com Free glass ID, Reference library, Door prizes, Food Available, Free parking

by Gertrude M. Puelicher

HAVE YOU EVER taken time to consider what comes first in your list of priorities? According to Webster, a priority is a preference based on urgency, importance or merit. In view of the precarious world situation, what would you consider an urgent priority for yourself as well as for our nation? In a telephone conversation with a friend, the caller went into detail over her many problems. She concluded with, “I suppose you think I should do some reading along spiritual lines. I’d like to, but I’m just too busy for that kind of thing.”

Too busy for God was the truth of the matter as well as the reason for her unsolved problems. When we make human “busy-ness” our first priority and push aside a recognition and realization of the presence and power of a force greater than man, then we are forced to accept the consequences. When the consequences become overwhelming, when we have reached a so-called dead end, what do we do? We call or shout or scream, “God, come quick! I need help.”

Cults come and go, but the basic principle taught in the first two commandments by the Nazarene carpenter will always be the foundation upon which our world must build. Young as he was, Elihu delivered a profound ultimatum to a rebellious Job when he said, “I would remind thee, that God is greater than man.”

The patriarch Isaiah put his seal upon Elihu’s statement when he urged his people to find their strength in quietness and in confidence and to “cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” The acceptance of these statements as truth could put our nation back on its feet, could go a long way toward solving our problems, could save us from disaster. For too long we have put our emphasis on the power of man instead of acquainting ourselves with the power of God. We have pyramided man’s power into the unstable structure that has now come crashing down upon us.

A musician doesn’t become a concert pianist in a day or month or year. He practices hours upon hours and, once having reached his goal, he is forced to continue to practice in order to retain it. So it must be with us in our spiritual building. Few people are born with a high spiritual consciousness. They have to practice the presence of God and meditate on the power of God day after day if they would feel God operating in their daily lives. “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it....” said the psalmist. No nation can survive without a spiritual force guiding its people. Crime, prostitution at a teenaged level, cults proclaiming drugs as a religion—surely the time has come for us to pull ourselves out of the filth of the gutter into the purity of a spiritual strength based upon faith in the presence and power of an Invisible Something within us. All we need do is turn within in true humility and make that Something our first priority. n