Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale - STUFF? or TIME????   Y ou always have enough time if you use it wisely.  Don't serve time, make time serve you.   The TRUTH is, that all of the “STUFF” here on earth we work SO hard to buy and accumulate, does NOT mean a thing compared to how we spend our TIME.       At the end of our day...people will be cleaning out our "STUFF", going thru our "STUFF", figuring out what to do with all of our "STUFF".... this "STUFF" we've accumulated in our life. The only thing of VALUE that remains are the MEMORIES and what we deposit into others.   May we all learn to spend less time accumulating "STUFF" and spend way more time making MEMORIES.   Our lives are not determined by what happens to us BUT by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, BUT by the attitude we bring to life.”   To choose time is to save time.   So count your blessings and share each enjoyed moment! ~ Jim Gentil (amende...

  Friday Tale - Bank Account   A 92 year old well-poised, slim and smiling man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, is being moved to a nursing home today.   His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.   "I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."   "That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it'...