>>> If you were dying and could only make one telephone call, who would you call? ........ So why are
you waiting?
>>> May you get a clean bill of health from your
dentist, your cardiologist, your gastroenterologist, your urologist, your proctologist, your podiatrist, your psychiatrist,
your plumber, your mechanic, and the IRS.
May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs, and your
stocks not fall.
May your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count, and
your mortgage interest not rise.
May New Years Eve find you seated around the table together with your beloved
family and cherished friends. May you find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper, and the pleasure
much more fulfilling than anything else you might ordinarily do that night.
May what you see in the mirror delight
you and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes,
and tell the world about your virtues.
May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls, may the commercials
on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching and may your checkbook and budget balance with plenty of room
for charity.
May you remember to say “I love you” at least once a day to your spouse, your child, your
parents, your siblings; but not to your secretary, your nurse, your hairdresser, or your tennis instructor.
And may
we live in a world at peace and with the awareness of God’s love in every sunset, every flower’s unfolding petals,
every baby’s smile, every lover’s kiss, and every wonderful miraculous beat of your heart.
>>> Nathanael Greene, a
general in the American army who served under George Washington, when asked why he went to war, wrote "We are soldiers
who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification
of our own private interests, but for public security".
Can the generals of today say the same?
>>>>
Some thoughts forwarded by Bill Allen, take a few minutes to read them, but more importantly, after you read them take a few
minutes to think about a few that may have hit home:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2.
When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit
cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone.
It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save
for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see
you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink
of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get
rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make
you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one
else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn
the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called
disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone
everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything.
Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself
so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not
because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy
is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come...
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44.
Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
