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Some Pointers for the Blackboard of Life
Get your chalk brushes ready…you may want to brush me off today as I offer up some pointers for the blackboard of life.
1. The Golden Rule – do to others as you would have them do to you.
2. Love your enemy – it`s healthier than hating.
3. Don`t spend a thousand dollars worth of emotion on a five cent irritation.
4. Don`t worry – it is a totally unproductive pastime
5. Don`t procrastinate – it is the thief of time.
6. Smile often – it increases your face value.
7. Stop and smell the roses – before their fragrance fades.
8. Laughing and crying are comfort for the soul – they each soothe in a different way.
9. Grieve when necessary – but remember to continue to live.
10. God runs a beauty parlor – have a regular faith lift.
11. Live, love and be happy – advice to be given and taken in heaping doses.
12. It is never too late to be baptized – Jesus wasn`t baptized until he was thirty years old.
13. You are never too old to do something new – just begin.
14. Try to have twelve hugs a day – even if you have to hug yourself.
15. Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can. (John Wesley)
And now, put away the pointer, the brushes, the chalk…tomorrow the slate will be clean again for you to chalk up some lessons of your own.
Our Daily Bread
Following are some wonderful quotes for every day living. They are from a little booklet, Our Daily Bread, which is available through Discovery House Publishing in one-hundred and fifty countries.
Here, then, are a few nuggets for your living enjoyment.
God has not promised that your life will be easy…indeed, it may not be. But he has promised to sustain you in your struggles and uphold you with his mighty arm. If you trust him, he will empower you to make your way bravely through extraordinary difficulties with faith, hope and love. God will not allow you to be pressed beyond endurance.
Unexpected changes are opportunities in disguise.
God’s love cannot be explained, it can only be experienced.
If God has already told you what to do, you don’t need to ask him again.
God’s commands are given to enhance our lives rather than restrict them.
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
You don’t need to know where you are going if you let God do the leading.
God uses ordinary people to carry out his extraordinary plan.
In God’s garden of love, you are his forget-me-not.
Each edition of Our Daily Bread is packed with inspirational stories and quotes such as these. I love it!
On Positivity
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; we refuse to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions. Norman Vincent Peale.
I’m not positive, but I think thinking positive is positively the only way to think. Unknown source.
Have a positive weekend. 🙂
A Definition of Togetherness
I love quotes, especially when they pertain to real life situations. This one by Kahlil Gibran from his book, “The Prophet”, is one of my favourites. A short form of it is “let there be spaces in your togetherness, for the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow”. It is a lovely reminder to allow each other room to grow in a relationship. I have enjoyed the writings of this author for many years, especially “The Prophet”.
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“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
Beautiful!
As Long as You Ever Can
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can. John Wesley (1703-1791)
John Wesley was one of nineteen children, and as a theologian, he spearheaded the evangelical revival in eighteenth century England.
“When You Remember Me”
This man, Frederick Buechner, writes some insightful messages. I love them. And so do the people who read yesterday’s quote about carrying our loved ones in our hearts, minds and stomachs. Two bloggers sent me hugs! Thank you SO much! Today I am posting a quote and giving Buechner’s direct link so whoever is so inclined, may help themselves to his writings.
“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.”
How encouraging are these words; how poignant the message.
Our World Within
I have discovered Frederick Buechner, author of Telling the Truth and many other inspiring books. Today I want to share one of my favorite quotes of his:
You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
This has profound meaning for me as some of my family live in other parts of the world. After every visit, when we kiss goodbye, they are still with me; in my heart, my mind, my stomach, because they are a large part of my world.
Those we love will always be a part of us no matter where they are.
I Believe
I believe I am always divinely guided. I believe I will always take the right turn of the road. I believe that God will always make a way where to my mind there is no way. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
I believe.
Learn from the Best
This quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was in part responsible for me writing my book, My Precious Life. Procrastination had prolonged my beginning it until I read this quote for the umpteenth time, and along with the encouragement from my family, finally sat down and seized the very minute on December 26, 2012.
Here then is Goethe’s famous quote:
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage and then the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
I am pleased to say the work has been completed and My Precious Life is the result of finally seizing the minute.
I love learning from the best.
My Precious Life 