Quotes

Guideposts magazine is one I love.  I'm trying to catch up on back issues and today a couple quotes really hit me.  One was submitted by a reader in New Jersey, who said, "I try to end each day saying, 'I am glad I did,' rather than, 'I wish I had."   Oh, boy...so often I am the "I wish I had" kind of person and I end up reliving what might have been if I had just followed my heart and did what I should have.    The other quote was submitted by a reader from Oklahoma which said, "Worry is pulling tomorrow's clouds over today' sunshine".   Bingo!!!!  How often on our Alaska trip did I have to tell myself, just enjoy the sunshine today, Barb, and don't worry about that channel crossing you have to do tomorrow.   But then I would start imagining those "potential" big seas and forget all about the sunshine.  To top it all off today's message was about worrying and here are some points to ponder from today's church bulletin:

"I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time."  Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."  Corrie ten Boom

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."  Mark Twain...(I think Mark Twain and I would have gotten along well!)

"Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed."  Unknown