Tuesday, May 2, 2017

What I've Learned

1. I'm 59 years old...I'm not going to look like I did when I was 29 years old, but you have to try...

2.I didn't grow up saying I had to be anything....I was just in awe of all of the possibilities.

3.Fear of Death is a great motivator to eat right and exercise and get in shape.

4.I suppose I should have survivor's guilt...So many of my friends who began this journey with me are no longer here...but I don't...

5.Sometimes you can find beauty where nobody bothered to look!

6.I'm Not Ward Cleaver or Cliff Huxtable...but I think I've been a pretty good dad overall..

7.You need someone to look up to and someone to look up to you! That's called balance.

8.Parenting doesn't end when your kids grow up....If you're lucky!

9.A good marriage is all about intimacy, and getting to know each other as best as you can.

10.I have two voices in my head...One that says...You're going to be 60 next year...You're old...And another voice that says...Ahhh knock it off...Be glad you're still alive to worry about it! 

PEACE!

3 comments:

Sunflower said...

I love these

Halo said...

I love these too!

Toni said...

Number five is sooo true!




KEEPING THE FAITH: RANDOM PRAYERS "ON THE DOWNLOAD"

DEAR GOD: My heart is heavy with my own failures. I try to excuse them and explain to myself why they occurred, because I want to be free from the feeling that I am unworthy and incapable of being all that I can be. But I find it easier to accept your forgiveness than to forgive myself. When I try to forgive myself, it seems I only remember and re-play my failures in my mind, and a sense of hopelessness floods over me. Help me to know that my past actions are a part of my growing humanity and that even when I fail to live up to what is your will for me, every single moment can be lived anew. Remind me that refusing to forgive myself only keeps me from experiencing that newness. Assure me of the truth that by casting “my sins into the depth of the sea”, you have freed me to discard them myself and live the next moment as if it were my first, for indeed it is. I ask this for the sake of your love. Amen.









































































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