I like other people's insights which they have come by through living and experiencing.  Here are a few that you can choose from to see if one or more of them change the next few days for you.  Often we read famous quotes or inspiring statements and we say to ourselves WOW!! THAT IS SO TRUE! Then we say WOW one more time and then move on in our lives NEVER CHALLENGING OURSELVES TO DO SOMETHING WITH WHAT WE LEARNED.  Why learn ANYTHING in vain?  Why learn it just so it can be a memory?  Why put it on a piece of paper or wood, or the front of the fridge....smile and do nothing with it.  We all tend to do that, don't we?

So see if you can find a way to make one of these are part of your life in the next few days. If you care to share what happens with someone else that would be great. If you want to share it with me, I would be honored.  If we knew who each of us really is....in an eternal sense....we would be stunned and amazed at who stands in front of us. Maybe we would listen to them more carefully and write down what they say...and share our new learning with those we love.  Do you share new things you learn with those you love?  Try it.  New fruitful learning is the purest gem of all. Why would we keep the gems only for ourselves when so many around us hunger for new vision?

If you learn something of great value and you email it to someone else then TWO are similarly blessed. If the person you send it to sends it on to two or three others then five have been given a gift.  Why would we seek to bless only ourselves (one) rather than five, ten, twenty?

"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost."  GK Chesterton      I thought about this when my grandson, Parker Shumaker, age 2, passed away eight years ago.

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."   Will Rogers

"Go often to the house of your friend: for weeds soon choke up the unused path."  Scandinavian Proverb    I can guarantee you that THE DESPERATE NEED FOR YOUR VISIT to someone praying for love and help is limitless.

"If there is no wind; row."   Latin Proverb

One more...........

"On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone, in dark and dreary places.  Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting.  And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal."  Elder Jeffrey R, Holland    Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

One of the requests I most often make in my personal prayers is "Heavenly Father...please help me to recognize the help that will come to me today, or tomorrow or whenever it comes.  I need help in recognizing the help that comes to me....and I need it very much. I can't do this alone."  The help that is around you might surprise you if you pray for help to recognize it.

More on another day...love, Jim