TIME SPENT It actually takes a lot of energy to live. If we are not careful, we will use it all up living. A man may be allotted threescore and ten years. If he is, he will spend twenty-three years and four months of it asleep. He will work nineteen years and eight months. He …
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DEDICATED TO THE TASK “You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” So goes the old maxim, no better exemplified than in the story of crusty James Gordon Bennett, who stalked into the office of his New York Herald at the same moment that a young copy boy …
MY GET UP AND GO HAS GOT UP AND WENT How do I know that my youth’s all spent? Well, my get up and go has got up and went. But in spite of it all, I am able to grin When I recall where my get up has been. Old age is golden, so …
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DAILY EXERCISE FOR THE NON-ATHLETIC Making the rounds is a calorie guide citing a recent medical association report: “Proper weight control and physical fitness cannot be attained by dieting alone. Many people who are engaged in sedentary occupations do not realize that calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in strenuous activities that …
OUT OF GAS One New Year’s Day, in the tournament of Roses Parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With its vast oil resources, …
LIFE AND OUR BODIES A young man lives through his body, an old man lives against it. From Men in Mid-life Crisis, by Jim Conway, pg. 264
INTIMATE ENERGY Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with a whole heart. How much we can do for each other. Alex Noble
FAITH’S RESULTS Faith is the invisible energy that produces visible results. From church organist & lecturer, Betty Maltz
HOW MUCH ZIP An older woman filled out an application for residency in a retirement village, and was very carefully answering all the questions. After “zip,” she printed firmly. “Excellent for my age”
CAN’T KEEP IT ON Just before Christmas a woman went out and invested in a new vacuum cleaner. She immediately went to try out her new appliance. She plugged the electric marvel into the nearest extension cord and turned it on. It ran great for a couple of seconds, then, without warning, shut off again. …
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TOP TEN SONGS FOR PEOPLE OVER FORTY 1 0. Let’s Get a Physical 9. Ain’t No Burrito Mild Enough 8. Johnny B. Olde 7. How Do You Mend a Broken Everything? 6. The Lack O’ Motion 5. Hair Potion Number Nine 4. Doctor My Eyes (& Ears & Joints & Back &…) 3. To All …
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VIRTUE UNLEASHED Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life’s evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. By William James, taken from Light From Many Lamps, by Lillian Watson
ACTIVATED IDEAS An idea is a pent-up reservoir full of energy and absolutely worthless until put into action.
WRESTLING A GORILLA Persistence is like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you get tired. You quit when the gorilla gets tired!
FATIGUE IN LIFE Scarf quotes a man who is struggling with the pressures of life and who accurately expresses the fatigue that many men feel: “I feel a weakening of the need to be a great man and an increasing feeling of ‘let’s just get through this the best way we can.’ Never mind hitting …
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me…He sent Me to bring glad tidings” (Luke 4:10). Many of you have read Mark Twain’s delightful story about a Mississippi River steamboat. The owners decided that it was going to be the greatest boat on the river and in building her, they spared no expense. They decided …
It is said that once, when Thomas Edison stood on the beach and looked out at the ocean’s incoming waves, he literally wept because, as he saw it, such vast amounts of throbbing energy were going to waste. It also has been said that a waste far more worthy of our tears “is the enormous …