βThe simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.β – Paulo Coelho
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Quote of the day – Plato
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” – Plato
Quote of the day – Isaac Asimov
βThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.β – Isaac Asimov
The bank
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use that day. What would you do?
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME! Every night it writes off as lost whatever you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries no balance, allows no overdraft.
Every day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no “drawing” against tomorrow. You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get the most in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of it today. Treasure every moment you have. Remember that time waits for no one.
βTime is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.β – Diogenes Laertius
Quote of the day – Elise Boulding
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” β Elise Boulding
Quote of the day – Mary Engelbreit
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
Quote of the day – Pete Seeger
βDo you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. β – Pete Seeger
Joke of the day – We don’t need You
There’s a group of scientists who decided that humans could do without God. So one of them looked up to God and said, “We’ve decided that we no longer need You. We have enough wisdom to clone people and do many miraculous things,”
God listened patiently and then said, “Very well, let’s have a man-making contest. We’ll do it just like I did back in the old days with Adam.” The scientists agreed and one of them bent down and picked up a handful of dirt. God looked at him and said, “No! You have to make your own dirt!”
5 Best Toys Ever
Wired magazine ran an article on the five best toys ever. Wired is one of the most innovative, bleeding-edge publications youβll read about all things technological. Which is why at first the list surprised me, but then I realized their angle and couldnβt help but appreciate their wisdom.
5 Best Toys Ever – Dr James Emery White
Hereβs the list:
1. Stick
2. Box
3. String
4. Cardboard Tube
5. Dirt
Anybody want to argue with them? I doubt it.
Itβs an important reminder that the best things in life β and often in ministry, leadership, business and family β are the simple things.
The dilemma is how our culture seems to refuse to give simplicity a place.
But think about when it insists on intruding and the wake it leaves behind.
For example, a snowstorm brings your town to a standstill. You went out and stocked up on bread and milk and a few other things you didnβt really need, and settled in. The power goes out, so you light the candles and gather by the fireplace for warmth. Board games that had been gathering dust for years are pulled out. You play them and have more fun than you can remember. You then go outside and actually play, throw a snowball, make a snow-angel, build a snowman.
Itβs golden.
You talk, years later, about that magic night. Youβd give almost anything to go back and relive it, and wish there was a way to recreate it in the here and now.
In a complex, βalways onβ world, perhaps what we need to remember is that we need to intentionally unplug every now and then.
Even if just to remember that the best toys in the world β like the best times β are the most simple.
And in truth, the most available.
That is my holiday wish for you. May you enjoy the simplicity and holiness that resides in the stillness between Christmas and the new year.
And maybe some fun with a leftover box or two.
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