Okay, I am coming in like a lamb, rather than a lion for 2016, but there is some sage advice here. You may want to print out a few of these gems sent to me by friends Sherrie and Linda.
Also, here is my Broncos friend Vesta Fulghum, 87-years-old, and going strong. Vesta is in a weekly prayer gathering I attend, and she wears Bronco colors the day after her team wins. She is a very good sport! Peyton Manning and the Broncos may have her prayers to thank, at least in part, for being a top seed.
The poster says: People are often unreasonable and self-centered: Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind people may accuse you of ulterior motives: Be kind anyway.
If you are honest people may cheat you: Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness people may be jealous: Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow: Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
For you see in the end it is Between you and God: It was never between you and them anyway.
Thoughtful, honest Phil Yancey is quoted often. Here he writes an open letter to God: “I can sometimes ease off from this world into an awareness of an invisible world; and most of the time I truly believe it exists, as real as this world of oxygen and grass and water. But how do I do the reverse, to let the reality of your world–of you–enter in and transform the numbing sameness of my daily life, and my daily self?”
Many of us dream of having a doctor or a lawyer in a family, but I wonder what this family would say to the child who wants to be a plumber or a missionary?
Isn’t it great we can live in a country and have both vegetarians and carnivores? A friend of mine was in Nepal recently viewing some lovely cashmere scarves. The English sign said: “Human, please touch me.”
Below are bumper stickers found at a truck stop parking lot. As you roam hither and yon snap photos and send them to “There’s a Blog in My Eye” for the next “Signs of Our Times.”
