A WORLD-ON-YOUR-SHOULDERS KIND OF DAY

Today is world-on-your-shoulders day. There’s problem to my left, and another to my right. Looking down a problem waits there for me too… and looking up a huge rock just waits to fall down on me hanging on a thread. So am stuck in the middle, can’t go anywhere.

Have you had that kind of day?

I guess every normal air breathing person goes through such a time. The feeling is like drowning with the waters up to your neck and rising. Or something like so dumbstruck and numb with anxiety and your feet feels glued to the ground; you’d like to run but your legs won’t cooperate.

Then you want to quit.

What -- Quit the world or living in it? Quit the thrill of facing a challenge? Quit the promise of a blessing at the end of the dark tunnel? Quit the opportunity and possibility for great achievement? Quit the potential to become a better person in winning over the struggle and strife? Quit knowing your GOD better? I can tick off dozens of reasons and things you would be losing by quitting.

Truth is, all that you need to do is…

Have faith. Believe in yourself. Believe on the ONE set of footprints on the sand when two of you are walking on it.

"Square your shoulders to the world… be not the kind to quit. It's not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry it." -Anonymous

THINK FROM YOUR HEART - NOT FROM YOUR POCKET

Do you think from your pocket?? - Don't! Because not everything in life has a price tag attached to it. Those things which truly matter in lfe are priceless. You can't buy love, loyalty, courage, hope, faith, family, friendship, wisdom, honesty, devotion, and other magnificent things which give genuine meaning and worth to life people and living. You can't buy a blessing.

Think from your HEART!

PERFECT MOMs - BY GOD'S DESIGN

A famous author once said that 'we can't choose our parents, but God made sure that we get what we need'. God gave you a mother tailor-fit for you. It may look imperfect to your eyes. But I'll say this.....

it's imperfectly perfect ----- by God's design.

Trust God to know what He is doing, just like what He does with the rest of your life. Love your mother. No if's and but's. Enjoy your Mother's Day with her and the rest of the family.

WANT A CAREER, GIRL? - WELL THEN, GO FOR IT!

Unlike our moms & grandmoms before us, more women now are in careers. That's okay, very okay. Because a woman is a man's equal even in the workplace. She, given the same training, is equal to the task and may even shine brighter. She can hold her own, be brilliant, be tough. and too brings to the job this special something God gave to women -- a nurturing heart.

So you see, the only difference is --
she wears high heels! :-)

BUILD UP or TEAR DOWN - YOUR CHOICE

Oh but there is so much we don't like about so many things -- in life, in people, in government, in structures and policies, etc. And we harp about them a lot, get so mad - irritated - disgusted - frustrated by them all. Well, some serious venting can serve a good purpose too you know ...

but only if the venting is aimed at
building up and not in tearing down.

MAKE A WISH - IT JUST MIGHT COME TRUE

You know what --- If there is anything which we should learn --- it's to have a WISH LIST. Put in there all those things you would like to do in your lifetime. You could maybe set down a time frame, say ... things-I'd-like-to-do-before-I-reach-thirty or forty or fifty ... or maybe you could do a variation like 'something big-I'd-like-to-do-on-my-birthday', but whatever it is MAKE THAT LIST! :-) Somebody I love just did! Thanks for the lesson, Honey! (That's my daughter in the picture weaving magic into her birthday wish.)