“If you limit your choices to only what seems possible, or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
- Robert Fritz
“I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.”
- Charles Swindoll
“Doing GOD’s work has never paid very much, but the retirement package is to die for!”
” A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ”
- John Wooden: UCLA Coach
and two time member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
(As a player & coach)
Commencement
It marks the “beginning” of something. It also denotes finishing with distinction! The belief that we have achieved the latter…is a pillar… to be found between the columns of “temporarily” and “blindly.” In truth, your most important commencement ceremony has yet to happen. It will fall on an unpublished day, at an unannounced hour. Until then…consider yourself enrolled in the U. of LIFE where internships, apprenticeships, and residencies are perpetual devices that build character, by stripping away your character flaws. They are the apparatus by which GOD lovingly hones your humanity, to the point where being HUMANE takes precedence over being human, and ultimately becomes more than a series of singular actions, but a singular way of life.
May you finish, by the grace of God, with distinction!
- R.J.S.
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“Greed I’ve often regretted. Generosity…never.”
Shared by Max Lucado in his book Grace for the moment. One of my absolute favorite books! It’s one worth owning…especially if you’ve made room for GOD in your life.
“The living…are the dead on vacation.”
- Maurice de Maeterlinck
This week, let’s prove him wrong by enjoying more of the former in the absence of the latter!
