Thoughts on Life
If anything is important in this crazy world, Life must be. Without life, there is no existence. Existence IS life.
I love SPRING because it is a time when we see LIFE happen all around us.
It is a great thing to be around small children. They have a zest for life that is infectious. Of course, they can tire us out with all their energy, but even that just shows how new to life they are. They haven’t been “worn down” with cares and worry. Maybe they could teach us to lighten our load.
Life means change. We are born and we grow up enough to be successful adults and then we grow old. Spring comes and it goes, and then it comes again. People we want to keep forever do not stay forever. People we do not want to be around also do not stay forever. Acceptance of change can be hard until you learn that it is a friend as well as an enemy.
It is a beautiful thing if we get to experience life in all its fullness. Both sun and rain, both good and bad, both success and failure, both love and hate – all these opposites bring us something, and without each experience we are left with less understanding.
You are the fortunate person if you have learned that you have a Maker who loves you!
LIFE IS JOY!
The older I get the more I know that Life is a gift we get to open every day!
Have you really studied a flower or a wooly worm or a ladybug? Have you seen a rainbow or a sunset? Have you stood in the rain? Have you stood in the warmth of the sun? Have you had a good cry? Have you laughed until your sides hurt? Aren’t you lucky?!
Sometimes we get gifts that we wish we did not have to open. My daughter having cancer was one of mine. My husband getting seriously ill was another. But my life is richer for both of those experiences. It has taken years for me to learn this.
I wish I could give everyone perspective, but I guess perspective, like patience, is hard earned.
Life can be dreary some days, but the great thing about life is that it constantly changes, and the dreary days don’t last forever.
I took care of my parents for the last years of their lives, and I had the honor of finding each of them the morning after they had died. An experience like that helps one know the difference between a living, breathing person and a body that no longer is alive. What was essential to life has left. The essence of the person was there as I put them to bed and gone the next morning. Life is a mystery that God understands.