Life's Tough Lessons

   Have you seen that Movie with Denzel Washington as a football coach at a newly integrated high-school in Virginia back in the 60s? He tells his peer - when we are soft on our kids - we aren't really making their lives better - "We are crippling them".  When our children get out in the real world on their own - no one is going to give a darn about "their feelings or needs".  It's up to us parents to teach and instill the lessons they need to deal with life's challenges.

 Zig Ziglar had a famous line about being hard on yourself often leads to a better life down the road. (Please excuse my simple attempt to paraphrase Zig.) Well, old Zig was right, wasn't he? If we discipline and teach our children well - maybe their lives will be a little easier. Maybe they will be better prepared to handle life's inevitable hardships. 

Love

Do you want more happiness? A great sense of self esteem perhaps? Would you like to develop a fresh, new outlook on life?

Share your Love with others. Anyone. As many others as you can. And just watch how much love you get back! If you want to cultivate love, create harmony in all your feelings and faculties. Remember that all that is pure, holy and virtuous in love flows from the deepest fountain of the human soul.

Most beautiful in morning and evening, but warmest and steadiest at noon. It is the sun of the soul. Life without love is worse than death; a world without a sun. The love which does not lead to labor will soon die out, and the thankfulness which does not embody itself in sacrifices is already changing to gratitude. Love is not ripened in one day, nor in many, nor even in a human lifetime. It is the oneness of soul with soul in appreciation and perfect trust. To be blessed it must rest in that faith in the Divine which underlies every other motion. To be true, it must be eternal as God himself

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Without love there would be no organized households, and, consequently, none of that earnest endeavor for competence and respectability, which is the mainspring to human effort; none of those sweet, softening, restraining and elevating influences of domestic life, which can alone fill the earth with the glory of the Lord and make glad the city of Zion. This love is indeed heaven upon earth; but above would not be heaven without it; where there is not love, there is fear; but, "love casteth out fear." And yet we naturally do offend what we most love.

Love blends your heart in blissful unity, and, for the time, so ignores past ties and affections, as to make willing separation of the son from his father's house, and the daughter from all the sweet endearments of her childhood's home, to go out together and rear for themselves an altar, around which shall cluster all the cares and delights, the anxieties and sympathies, of the family relationship; this love, if pure, unselfish, and discreet, constitutes the chief usefulness and happiness of human life