Members Wanted

Membership at gyms requires a fee for play.

Family chores are a way members of a household bond and build deep relationships among parents and children, for example, also.

Membership also entails an annual commitment, for example, for a year at Fitness 19, where I paid $5 per month for one year. That was a Christmas special for a limited time. L A Fitness, who recently took over Bally's requires an annual fee for members, also. A local library may also charge a fee to use the books stored there, along with newspapers, magazines and more.

Good deals are also searched. Although Fitness 19 doesn't have showers, for example, my membership is limited, it seems since I cannot work out during my lunch time daily. Oh well!

Like life, you win some and lose some. One doesn't get everything one wants or needs. One learns this and pays dearly for it if she or he protests when a teen, for example. That's another blog.

To commit is the harder chore. Shifts seems to be short thrift when it comes to joining these days. Decades ago, people committed, and helped, and looked out for each other. Not so so much today.

For fruitfulness in the contract paid "up front" one has to use the gym facility, to illustrate my point, or, one is wasting his or her money. Not a good thing!

Wasting is a sin - missing the mark - I was taught as a Catholic Christian.

At the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue, recently, I picked up their application for membership and noticed the charge. Not a bad way to get members to commit, I thought.
There's annual, monthly and 6-month options.

A good deal for the rebounding Motown Detroit where that gem of the Motor City rocks with best-kept secrets. Among them are museums and more, including the Edsel's Folly, and the evolution of the automobile that still makes this town famous.

The federal government with the U.S. President helped reach out and lifted a hurting Big Three, excluding one who refused the hand since they didn't need it.

Even cars have guarantees for a limited time. You may say that this is part of the built in contract price the buyer makes to keep the car in efficient repair and motion, for sure!

Discipleship is another word for commitment, membership, o, duties included.

What a price it is to be a follower of the Master Jesus, for example, like the twelve apostles who grew the Way into a community of seventy-two disciples, and much more, at its beginnings in the time of Jesus. He attracted so many despite persecutions and Christians tossed to the lions in the huge stadiums of the day. His preaching attracted countless numbers while others continued the Way.

Emperors have their price.

If one didn't follow them and their own means of governing or even controlling the crowds, Christians paid the ultimate price for Jesus the Christ. Dying for the faith is called martyrdom.

Membership, you may say, requires daily dues. It's a good thing. Time is precious and urgent like the Gospel.

Among duties of followers of the Christ was the mission of taking the good news to the four winds, and the ends of the earth.

Eye contact today seems to require commitment. Therefore, people may find it difficult to be a member of the Catholic Church, for example.

Too costly.

Too much commitment.

A price to pay.

A mission to lead them for the common good of society's being lifted up to the highest aim of sanctity and holiness for the world to glow and grow well in each believer.

Such light illumines and attracts others to join.

Goals, like rungs on a ladder, encourage others to to set a pilgrim's plan, a treatment plan, an aim to shoot for, so to speak.

One's duty.

Membership matters.

It costs.

It costs one's life, in fact.

All is well and better in society, at home, and school, as a result of members who are committed to pay the price today.