Carry on and do some good

Going through some things this morning I ran across this sent to me by my late friend, Jim Mulford, and it hung with me as it does each time I read it.  I’ve never really been able to comment on it because it seems that it says everything that need be said on the issue, and while that often doesn’t keep me from commenting on something, here it always has:

“I blinked and I am nearing the end.

Sometimes I just want to shout: ‘Pay attention to now, exercise some discipline in your life, love somebody hard, keep yourself fit.’

It seems we think that way only when it is too late to do anything about it, or maybe that’s too self-revealing.

And yet, we carry on and do some good.”

Nothin’

From my friend Steve Kinney:

“It is indeed better to give than receive, but before we can give, we have to receive.”

Easy to forget that absent receipt we got nothin’.  We arrive on and depart this mortal coil empty handed, which strongly suggests that the focus should be on what we receive, not what we have; not on what we got, but how we got it, from whom.  Of course, what can be the uncomfortable aspect of that line of thinking is that (we get circular here) it is easy to forget that absent receipt, we got nothin’.  In short: “In everything give thanks.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Text and Photo

Another of those accidental photos, though this one I can identify as the fabric on a chair i regularly sit at in my room at home. I ran across the quote recently and haven’t been able to convince myself otherwise.