WIT & WISDOM:
Hello my 'Sunday People'. There are 2 movies
at the end of todays reading that are just amazing!!! Get the Kleenex!
I hope that all are well and enjoyed a super summer!
Well I'm headed out to WoofStock... yeah I said WoofStock.. here is
the link.. http://www.woofstock.org/ Hey us back woods folks need entertainment
too!!!
Have a great week!!!!
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your
own
way." --Christopher Morley
MID-LIFE CRISIS SOLVED
When I was married 25 years, I took a look at
my wife one day and said,
"Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap
apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch
black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year
old
blonde.
Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed
and plasma screen TV, but
I'm sleeping with a 50 year old woman. It seems to me that you are not
holding up your side of things,"
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told
me to go out and find a
hot 25 year old blonde, and she would make sure that I would once again
be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a
sofa bed.
Aren't older women great. They really know to
solve your mid-life
crises.
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FORGET THE PAST
--by Dawn Fields
Just think about this for a moment:
How many times have you done
something in your past that you were not too happy about? It could be
anything.
Let's say that you are an addicted person.
You may be addicted to
drugs, or alcohol or the wrong type of man. Perhaps you are addicted
to
stressful jobs that bring you little pay. It doesn't matter what the
circumstances may be.
Hey, it doesn't even have to be that
harsh. Perhaps you have tried to
start your own business or create something in your life where you could
make a living doing something you are passionate about and it failed,
so you gave up.
It doesn't really matter. But every
time you turn around, you are
falling victim to the same thing over and over again.
Hey, it happens. We all fall down. But
the good thing about it is we
get up. Just because you fell down doesn't mean you have to stay down.
Get up! Why are you still sitting there? We all make mistakes.
But the great part about it is that
God allows us an opportunity to
learn from our mistakes and move forward. Just because you fall down
today, doesn't mean that tomorrow you must remain down.
Ever slipped out in public and actually
fell down? Jumped up real
quick, didn't you? The next thing you did was looked around and prayed
that
nobody saw you.
Just as quickly as you bounced up from
a real fall, you can bounce back
from a figurative fall. One thing that I have noticed from speaking
with a lot of people is that they understand that we fall down but never
understood that we get up too.
No matter what the circumstances are
in your life that might have
tripped you up, no matter what you have been through, no matter what
happened in your past, you can always get up and make changes, right
now, that
will forever banish or make obsolete, the bad things that caused you
to
fall in the past.
Don't get me wrong...I hear some very
legitimate sounding excuses as to
why people feel that their life will forever be the way that it
presently may be. I hear things like "I was molested when I was
young."
"My mother abandoned me when I
was two years old and left me because
she was out chasing the pipe." "I have an addiction. How can
I possibly
get a job that pays more than minimum wage." "I don't have
an education.
How can I ever expect to get a good job?"
Stop living in the past! We all fall
down. But remember, "A Saint is
just a sinner who fell down and got up." Your past should be a
reference
point, not a residence. But so many of us continuously live in the
past.
We went out and bought a welcome mat
and promptly placed it at the door
of our past. We can't break away from it. We wear it as some sort of
badge of honour because we simply won't let it go.
Just because you made a mistake or circumstances
led you to do
something that you now regret, doesn't mean that for the rest of your
life you
will have to beat yourself up because of it.
Doesn't matter if you made two mistakes
or three. Heck, it doesn't even
matter if you made over a million mistakes in your life. What matters
is today, right now.
You know the mistakes that you've made
because you have that mistake as
a reference point now and for the rest of your life. You weren't born
for sorrow. You weren't born to be a doormat for others to wipe their
feet on.
You weren't born to be used up and then
disregarded. You were born to
glorify God and live a happy and abundant life. And if you aren't living
that way, it's simply because at some point, you fell down.
But now is the time to get up and start
living the life that you were
born to live. And that is a life of purpose. That's a life of happiness
and abundance.
Now, you ask, "How do I get out
of the past and get up?" Well, I would
like to say, "it's simple." But that wouldn't be the truth.
There's
nothing simple about it. It's a daily process that you must work on.
You
have to be committed to making changes in your life.
You have to believe that God has a purpose
for you. You will have to
work on you. You will have to realise that what happened yesterday,
is
gone. You can never get that time back and, therefore, there is nothing
you can do about it.
But right in front of you is another
minute or another hour or another
day, week, month, year. Those things haven't happened yet, so you can
start to orchestrate your present so that your future will be more to
your liking.
Start by telling yourself, "My
past has no bearing on who I am now.
And, therefore, is not important. I am here to glorify God. I am God's
child and, therefore, worthy of greatness." If you take this simple
phrase
and say it to yourself all day long, you will soon start to notice
changes in your life.
All of a sudden, without even thinking
about it, you will start to pack
your old baggage from the past and move them to a closet that you will
lock and throw away the key.
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MEMORIAL STONE
Joe died. His will provided $30,000
for an elaborate funeral. As the
last guests departed the affair, his wife, Helen, turned to her oldest
friend.
"Well, I'm sure Joe would be pleased,"
she said.
"I'm sure you're right," replied
Jody, who lowered her voice and leaned
in close.
"How much did this really cost?"
"All of it," said Helen. "Thirty
thousand."
"No!" Jody exclaimed. "I
mean, it was very nice, but $30,000?"
Helen answered, "The funeral was
$6,500. I donated $500 to the church.
The wake, food and drinks were another $500. The rest went for the
memorial stone."
Jody computed quickly. "$22,500
for a memorial stone? My God, how big
is it?!"
"Two and a half carats."
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REMEMBER WHEN
http://www.marycy.org/remember.html
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THERE is NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU
http://www.meditationmovie.com/movie.html