THOUGHTS.......

There are people who live on as bland a diet of existence as they can conceive. They do not visit friends in hospitals because it unnerves them.

They do not argue for an cause it upsets them.  They do not run because the believe it might give them heart trouble and they do not walk because it makes them tired.'

They live only to get what they want with as little trouble as possible and purposely miss what they abhor. But running away from life is a race no one should want to enter,let alone win.

So what to do or leave undone.

Never try to chop saw dust.  Chop sawdust?  Ah, yes. If here is a problem tree, chop it down. But don't chop it to death.  Otherwise, you simply waste your time chopping sawdust.  Which is what some people do all the time.

Chopping away at the same old problem over and over.  The same old saw dust.   All that can be done has been done, but they go on driving themselves and everyone around them crazy.

Rather than worry yourself to death about getting older, key in on those who have aged with the glint of victory in their eyes.

Emmanuel Kant at 74 wrote his finest philosophical works.

John Glenn at 77 flew into outer space,

Verdi at 80 produced Falstaff and at 85 Ave Maria.

Billy Graham pushing 80 was still preaching.

Goethe at 80 completed Faust.  Nelson Mandela at 79 finally retired as President of South Africa.

Tennyson at 80 wrote Crossing the Bar.

Michelangelo completed some of his greatest works at 87.

Titian at the age of 98 painted the historic picture, Battle of Le panto.

The mind is a powerful thing...feeding us powerful positive thoughts...or powerful negative debilitating thoughts.  It is how we train it...pray about it and toward it.

When or if you have a day or a moment in which you become your own worst enemy...pray unceasingly to stop such foolishness before you wreck a life almost beyond retrieval.