life's formulas

An Yakima Valley orchardist, who is a great cleanup hitter, says—“Hard times create strong people. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. And weak people create hard times.”  Around and around we go, where we stop no one knows!

This sign was in a bathroom I was in recently. A MD missionary in the Bible study that I attend, said that when they first went to Africa to be missionaries, his wife said that she felt imperfect as a missionary, but she found out that none of the other missionaries were perfect either!  Sarah says in her book-- “There is nothing perfect in this world except God. That is why closeness to God satisfies deep yearnings and fills us with joy. Much frustration and failure results from our seeking perfection in this life.” Maybe, just maybe, we should work on persistency and not on perfection. What do you think? That is what I thought. We can’t wash our hands perfectly clean; we are animals!

The perfect formula of life has been said many times to be balanced physically, mentally and spiritually. It appears to me when my life gets skewed, I need to take a break and refigure it once again. It works quite well for me. And it is easy for me to get my life skewed, let me tell ya. There is a lot of stimuli out there let me tell ya! Sarah in her book says--"The curse of this age is overstimulation of the senses, which blocks out awareness of the unseen world."

Here is a formula by Dave Ramsey that is part of life that makes many lives much better:

I sent this to my grandkids (i.e. ages 13 to 18). I think their age is a good time to learn this life formula. What do you think?  Our 13-year-old grandson’s remark was this—“Thanks! I got a lot to learn…”

A friend always tells me—erv, you need to use the three Ps—proper prior planning. Soooo I pulled on the farmyard of one of my clients years ago. His parents were immigrants from Germany, and he had a German accent. He was sitting under a little tree in its shade as it was a hot, humid summer IA day in an old chair with a stub of a lead pencil in his hand and a small piece of paper that at one time was wadded up and now looked crunchy. I asked him what he was doing—I’m going to built a new barn and I am making a building plan, erv, you gottta have a plan—I said, oh, that’s a good plan! He was a very hardworking man, he built the barn.

Businesses have and make plans for their future, one-year plans, five-year plans, 10-year plans. They are called business plans. Plans that we project and measure progress by. A banker when loaning money wants to see our business plan (i.e. how are you going to fund the business endeavor and how will the project cash flow to pay off the loan). It’s just plain common sense, isn’t it. Here is what I don’t understand, why don’t we spend more time making a plan for our lives a.k.a. a formula for our life. It appears that there are a lot of folks that don’t have a clue what their plan is in life or for their soul.  Eternity is a long time folks. I just plain don’t understand why we all don’t work more on that plan. We seem to be more concerned about our money that will be here today and gone tomorrow (i.e. like when we die and we are all going to die on this earth).  Such is life!

RogerDodger says--"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do... We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.” And CadillacJack says--“Our response to a challenge defines us more than the challenge itself."

Oswald Chambers says—“Receive the Holy Spirit; it is an invasion, one that cannot happen until we come to the end of ourselves. We must come to this end not just in our imagination but in reality. When we do, we realize that, in fact, we never did have any power of our own. That’s why all our vows and resolutions ended in failure.” I believe that! Suck it up cupcake and let’s get going!

Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

MyDeceasedFriendJean said--Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday.