Life is similar to
Boxing
Game.
Defeat is not Declared when U Fall Down.
It is Declared when U Refuse to Get
Up.
Life is a gift. It is
a challenging gift, though, full of fears and
dangers,
and in order to deal with these problems, we are
provided with a few tools,
not the least of which being hope.
Hope and kindness to each other, hope and kindness
and truth.
Truth is often heard from those wiser than
ourselves,
the quotes we cherish in our hearts to light the
way for us when we need them the
most.
The 45 lesson
1. Life isn’t
fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small
step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating
anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you
are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in
touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument.
Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than
crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take
it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first
paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is
futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t
screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you
cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You
have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you
shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye.
But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful,
beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does
make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy
childhood. But the second one is up to you and no
one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in
life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the
fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special
occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age
to wear purple.
24. The most important organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but
you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words
‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your
business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time
time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will
change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one
else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not
because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the
most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying
young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you
loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting
everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw
everyone else’s, we’d grab ours
back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all
you need.
42. The best is yet to come…
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and
show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but
it’s still a
gift.”
GREAT TRUTHS THAT
LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can’t
baptize cats..
2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don’t
let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her
back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a
tomato.
5) You can’t trust dogs to watch your
food..
6) Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your
hair..
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same
time.
8) You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a
glass of milk.
9) Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white
shorts.
10) The best place to be when you’re sad is
Grandma’s
lap.
Unconditional:
A little girl named
Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious
disease.
Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood
transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had
miraculously survived the same disease and had
developed the antibodies needed to combat the
illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little
brother and asked the little boy if he would be
willing to give his blood to his sister.
I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking
a deep breath and saying,
“Yes, I’ll do it if it will save
her.”
As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next
to his sister and smiled, as we all did,
seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his
face grew pale and his smile faded.
He looked up at the doctor and asked with a
trembling voice, “Will I start to die
right away ?”
Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the
doctor;
he thought he was going to have to give his sister
all of his blood in order to save her.
................And he was willing to do that for
her.
Answers given by 2nd grade school children
to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the
only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting
born.
How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just
like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of
stirring.
3. God made my mom just the same like he made me.
He just used bigger parts.
What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers
out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in
the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s
bones. Then they mostly use string, I
think.
Why did God give you your mother and not some other
mom?
1. We’re
related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other
people’s mom like me.
What kind of a little girl was your mom?
1. My mom has always
been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there,
but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.
What did mom need to know about dad before she
married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a
crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO
to drugs and YES to chores?
Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the
best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a
lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with
him.
3. My grandma says that mom didn’t have her
thinking cap on.
Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn’t
want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s
such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees
the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess mom is, but only because she has a lot
more to do than dad.
What’s the difference between moms and
dads?
1. Moms work at work
and work at home and dads just go to work at
work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without
scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all
the real power cause that’s who you got to
ask if you want to sleep over at your friends.
4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better
without medicine.
What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers
don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day
long.
What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside
she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some
kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe
blue.
If you could change one thing about your mom, what
would it be?
1. She has this weird
thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get
rid of that.
2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would
know it was my sister who did it not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those
invisible eyes on the back of her
head.
Cuddle.....
When Carolyn Isbister put her
20oz baby on her chest for a cuddle,
she thought that it would be the only chance she
would ever have to hold her.
Doctors had told the parents that baby Rachel only
had only minutes to live because her heart was
beating once every ten seconds and she was not
breathing.
Isbister remembers:
I didn’t want her to die being cold. So I
lifted her out of her blanket and put her against
my skin to warm her up. Her feet were so cold.
It was the only cuddle I was going to have with
her, so I wanted to remember the moment.”
Then something remarkable happened. The warmth of
her mother’s skin kick started
Rachael’s heart into beating properly, which
allowed her to take little breaths of her own.
We couldn’t believe it – and neither
could the doctors. She let out a tiny cry.
The doctors came in and said there was still no
hope – but I wasn’t letting go of her.
We had her blessed by the hospital chaplain, and
waited for her to slip away. But she still hung
on.
And then amazingly the pink color began to return
to her cheeks. She literally was turning from gray
to pink before our eyes, and she began to warm up
too.
The sad part is that when the baby was born,
doctors took one look at her and said
‘no’.
They didn’t even try to help her with her
breathing as they said it would just prolong her
dying. Everyone just gave up on her,” her mom
remembered.
At 24 weeks a womb infection had led to her
premature labor and birth and Isbister (who also
has two children Samuel, 10, and Kirsten, 8 ) said,
“We were terrified we were going to lose
her.
I had suffered three miscarriages before, so we
didn’t think there was much hope.” When
Rachael was born she was grey and lifeless.
Ian Laing, a consultant neonatologist at the
hospital,
said: “All the signs were that the little one
was not going to make it and we took the decision
to let mum have a cuddle as it was all we could
do.
Two hours later the wee thing was crying. This is
indeed a miracle baby and I have seen nothing like
it in my 27 years of practice. I have not the
slightest doubt that mother’s love saved her
daughter.”
Rachael was moved onto a ventilator where she
continued to make steady progress and was tube and
syringe fed her mother’s pumped
breastmilk.
Isbister said, “The doctors said that she had
proved she was a fighter and that she now deserved
some intensive care as there was some hope.
She had done it all on her own – without any
medical intervention or drugs. She had clung on to
life – and it was all because of that cuddle.
It had warmed up her body and regulated her heart
and breathing enough for her to start fighting.
At 5 weeks she was taken off the ventilator and
began breastfeeding on her own.
At four months Rachel went home with her parents,
weighing 8lbs – the same as any other healthy
newborn.
Because Rachel had suffered from a lack of oxygen
doctors said there was a high risk of damage to her
brain.
But a scan showed no evidence of any problems and
today Rachel is on par with her peers.
Rachel’s mom tells us, “She is doing so
well. When we brought her home, the doctors told us
that she was a remarkable little girl.
And most of all, she just loves her cuddles. She
will sleep for hours, just curled into my
chest.
It was that first cuddle which saved her life
– and I’m just so glad I trusted my
instinct and picked her up when I did. Otherwise
she wouldn’t be here
today.”
Love has gone and left me and the days are all
alike;
Eat I must, and sleep I will--and would that night
were here!
But ah!--to lie awake and hear the slow hours
strike!
Would that it were day again!--with twilight
near!
Love has gone and left me and I don't know what
to do;
This or that or what you will is all the same to
me;
But all the things that I begin I leave before
I'm through--
There's little use in anything as far as I can
see.
Love has gone and left me--and the neighbors knock
and borrow,
And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a
mouse--
And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and
tomorrow
There's this little street and this little
house.