"What a wonderful life I've had, if only I had realized it sooner"

Please my friends, start today and realize the many, many blessings that you have. It is so easy to look at the negative instead of focussing on the positive, and how much we have all been given in this life!

"You mustn't confuse a single failure with final defeat"

Life is the journey. It isn't always the destination. As we walk this path of life, we will make mistakes, stumble many times, fall once in a while. But a hand will reach down and pull us back up, perhaps a friends hand, perhaps the hand of God. But always there is hope, and as long as there is a single breath left in you, there is the chance for success, not defeat.

"When God looks us over, he won't be looking for medals, he'll be looking for scars. So it's time to get into the battle and get all scarred up."

It is so nice to take the easy way out. To just not notice the people all around you in need, to frown instead of smile, to jeer instead of cheer, to discourage instead of encourage, to look for faults instead of goodness. Then look yourself in the mirror and do you like what you see?

-- Melissa (me@home.net), January 11, 2002

Answers

Melissa ----the only thing I could add would be ---is to laugh a lot!!!! God blessed me with a weird sense of humor---I think things are funny that sometimes no one else on earth/ see funny!!!!

I have usually laughed when most would cry----

Most of my friends say they know my laugh better than my voice.

God has helped me through many of lifes trails by helping me to see the humor in it!!!!

I have always been able to laugh at my self---& I love to make others laugh!!!

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), January 11, 2002.