CHOICES TO LIVE AND DIE FOR!

A person is worth what he chooses to live and die for. Heroes and saints, as well as villains and criminals, are a proof of this statement. If heroes and saints are great, it is because they have chosen to live and die for causes and meanings greater than themselves or things lower than themselves to live and die, like money or power.

LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH

Just read a very interesting and revealing article about our many choices in life, the consequences of wrong turns, and the necessity of a light, a map, signposts, and teammates.

The rest of our life is just like a maze; we face many decision points where we will have to decide whether to go left, right, or straight ahead. Day after day, we are faced with so many options, decision after decision, reversing course and starting all over again, backtracking and wasting a great deal of time and energy, getting frustrated and not knowing what to do. Making wrong choices and choosing the wrong paths will waste parts of our lives, lose joy and peace, and getting frustrated and not knowing what to do at the end.

Who do we go to when we are lost in the maze of life? We have the Word of God, which is the lamp for our feet and the light for our paths.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Lee Frost

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Robert Lee Frost

American poet, four times Pulitzer Prize Awardee.
Nature and rural surroundings were for him a source for insights
"from delight to wisdom", or as he also said: "Literature
begins with Geography."

TIME, TIME, TIME IS FAST ESCAPING ME!

How do we spend our time?

Of course, we have to spend a certain number of hours each by working, eating, sleeping, enjoying indoor and outdoor activities, thinking, reading, watching our favorite television shows, and many other worthwhile activities. But how do we spend the rest of our time?

What a person does in his free time depends on what he and his family are most interested in. Some work all the time and other play. Some take part in community services; others just don’t have time for that. We probably don’t have enough time to do everything that we would like to do, but somehow we manage to find time for the things that interest us most. When our interests change, so do our activities.

We have so many choices in life; if we choose things for the better, then we are taking the right path. More often than not, our friends are surprised when we no longer take interest in things like having a good time with them, things that would harm our health and our spiritual well being. They will never truly understand that if we are making wise choices we are entering a life of deeper enjoyment, full of worthwhile, satisfying activities that will give new purpose and meaning to our life.