My birthday is this week. Kind of makes me think… “If I had
it to do all over again….” Have you ever
uttered those words? Here are 10 of the
many things I would do differently.
1)
I would be more gentle to children who are just
beginning a lifetime of learning how to make their way in the world and don’t
really understand our grown-up rules or the reasons behind them.
2)
I would listen better – even to the unsaid words,
because I know that my own emotions and background will distort what I am
hearing and change the meaning from what the one speaking intended.
3)
I would create more beautiful
things because as I take the time to do so I am transported to a higher plain
and transformed by the creativity God has placed within me.
4)
I would have been a better student of the Word
at an earlier age because I now know the wealth that is hidden in the pages to draw
me into a closer relationship with the One who sees and knows all things.
5)
I would have exercised before I was in my
fifties because I would have been much more help and had more fun with the
strength and stamina I am just now realizing.
6)
I would have tried harder to speak the truth in
love; gently confronting rather than being the one who accommodates others just
to keep the peace and in the end, sends the message that undesirable
behaviors are acceptable.
7)
I would have prayed and waited more and
manipulated less, because altering things to get what you think you need takes
away the opportunity to see God bless you beyond your wildest dreams.
8)
I would have spent more on things that would
keep me organized and less on things that need to be organized so I’d have less
of what I don’t need and more to share with others.
9)
I would have spent less time and energy trying
to impress God and more time sitting in His presence, learning who He created
me to be and what He really wants me
to do.
10) I
would live in joyful expectation, praising God more… panicking less.
May YOU learn to have a richer life, earlier, by considering
what you need to change NOW so there are no regrets later! No time like the
present!
Now, let’s go eat some ice cream!
“I have come so that you may have life, and have it to the full.”
John 10:10
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