Tage is my four year old son. This is a conversation I had with him today:
Tage: "Can I go play with friends?"
Mom: "Your friends are in school right now." (he plays with the 7 year old next door)
Tage: " No they're not."
Mom: "How do you know?"
Tage: "I learned from God."
He then followed it up with, "Jesus is in the sky and he drops money."
A Few Of My Favorite Things
These are a few things that give me that euphoric high or that wonderful, content feeling one gets when everything seems right with the world:
- giving birth (actually it's the immediate few seconds after when I'm holding that newborn in my arms)
- sunsets
- swings (the ones at a playground that can go really high)
- stars
- campfires and the smell on your clothes afterwards
- massages
- mountains (looking at them and being on them)
- summer nights
- roller coasters
- thunderstorms
- tiny lips pressed upon my face
- little hands and feet
- the words, "I love you mommy"
- a teenager daughters hug
- a touch from those you love
- a child's imagination and wonder
- jogging in a warm summer rain
- soft blankets
- pleasant dreams
Wisdom Listens
This weekend while enjoying a leisurely hike, I crossed paths with a man who was standing still and enjoying the view. I felt prompted to stop and talk with him.
Within a couple of minutes I discovered he had, had a stroke and was unable to communicate as most of us do. I was impressed as he was able to tell me, " I've had a stroke and I can understand but can't convey." I have a brother in-law and a dear friend up the street who have had strokes and probably wouldn't be able to say even that much.
Some may consider a conversation with someone who struggles to speak and express themselves a bit frustrating and useless. They may not have lingered any longer but I was grateful for the opportunity to attempt to connect with this man.
As I departed I commented to my 11 year old daughter, "I love people who have had strokes. They cause you to slow down, focus on what they are trying to say and you truly seek to understand what they want to express."
Imagine if we always slowed down, focused and sought to understand what other people are really trying to say.
I recently heard a quote, "Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens."
Within a couple of minutes I discovered he had, had a stroke and was unable to communicate as most of us do. I was impressed as he was able to tell me, " I've had a stroke and I can understand but can't convey." I have a brother in-law and a dear friend up the street who have had strokes and probably wouldn't be able to say even that much.
Some may consider a conversation with someone who struggles to speak and express themselves a bit frustrating and useless. They may not have lingered any longer but I was grateful for the opportunity to attempt to connect with this man.
As I departed I commented to my 11 year old daughter, "I love people who have had strokes. They cause you to slow down, focus on what they are trying to say and you truly seek to understand what they want to express."
Imagine if we always slowed down, focused and sought to understand what other people are really trying to say.
I recently heard a quote, "Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens."
Foreword
If I were to sum up this chapter in one sentence it would be, "take time each day to train your mind for success." The following are quotes/sentences from the book "The Way To Success" by Sterling W Sill.
Success is interested in our excellence as citizens, parents, children, neighbors, workers and worshipers.
Since life is everlasting, temporary achievement has significance only as it influences our permanent success.
The strongest link in the success chain is right thinking.
Success is largely in the spirit, and manifests itself through the personality.
Success does not consist merely in arriving at a destination, it is also the effective continuance of that long, upward spiral of growth which constitutes eternal progress.
No success would be very important without the kind or courage that enables one to meet the ordinary failures of life without being defeated. Temporary losses should never be permitted to destroy morale or interfere with the long-range goals of eternal life.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick says that "no life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined."
It is a challenging idea that even though our lives are our most valuable possessions, yet this is the area where we are guilty of the most serious neglect. The fields of character development, spiritual growth and ethical improvement are some of the few places where we have no threat of surpluses.
William James said, "The mind is made up of what it feeds upon." This one idea offers us our greatest opportunity to win the battle of success if we only take effective advantage of it.
We must understand success, and we must keep working at it. One of the greatest advantage of regular reading may not be so much in what is read, as in what we are stimulated to think, and do to become, because of what we read.
What did you feed your mind today? What will you feed it tomorrow? What are you thinking, what will you do and what will you become because of it?
Success is interested in our excellence as citizens, parents, children, neighbors, workers and worshipers.
Since life is everlasting, temporary achievement has significance only as it influences our permanent success.
The strongest link in the success chain is right thinking.
Success is largely in the spirit, and manifests itself through the personality.
Success does not consist merely in arriving at a destination, it is also the effective continuance of that long, upward spiral of growth which constitutes eternal progress.
No success would be very important without the kind or courage that enables one to meet the ordinary failures of life without being defeated. Temporary losses should never be permitted to destroy morale or interfere with the long-range goals of eternal life.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick says that "no life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined."
It is a challenging idea that even though our lives are our most valuable possessions, yet this is the area where we are guilty of the most serious neglect. The fields of character development, spiritual growth and ethical improvement are some of the few places where we have no threat of surpluses.
William James said, "The mind is made up of what it feeds upon." This one idea offers us our greatest opportunity to win the battle of success if we only take effective advantage of it.
We must understand success, and we must keep working at it. One of the greatest advantage of regular reading may not be so much in what is read, as in what we are stimulated to think, and do to become, because of what we read.
What did you feed your mind today? What will you feed it tomorrow? What are you thinking, what will you do and what will you become because of it?
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