Don't take yourself too serious!

And some spiritual delight.

Outdoor Baptism

I think God knows how you really feel, don't you?

We know.. nobody wields a pitchfork like you Lance. But quite frankly, we're getting a bit concerned. After all, the play's been over for three weeks and we need to get the suit back to the rental shop.

And some thoughts of the day.

"I need oil," said an ancient monk, so he planted an olive sapling.
"LORD," he prayed, "it needs rain that is tender roots may drink and swell. Send gentle showers." And the LORD sent gentle showers.
"LORD," prayed the monk, "my tree needs sun. Send sun, I pray thee." And the sun shone, gliding the dripping clouds.
"Now frost, my LORD, to brace its tissues," cried the monk. And behold, the little tree stood sparkling with frost, but at evening it dies.

Then the monk sought the cell of a brother monk, and told his strange experience. "I, too, planted a little tree," he said, "and see! It thrives well. But I entrust my tree to its God. He who made it knows better what it needs than a man like me. I laid no condition. I fixed not ways or means. "Lord, send what it needs" I prayed, "storm or sunshine, wind, rain, or frost. Thou hast made it and Thou dost know."

It was spring but it was summer I wanted; the warm days and the great outdoors.
It was summer but it was fall I wanted; the colorful leaves and the cool dry air.
It was fall but it was winter I wanted; the beatiful snow and the joy of the holiday season.
It was now winter but it was spring I wanted; the warmth and the blossoming of nature.
I was a child but it was adulthood I wanted; the freedom and the respect.
I was twenty but it was thirty I wanted; to be mature and sophisticated.
I was middle-aged but it was twenty I wanted; the youth and the free spirit.
I was retired but it was middle-age that I wanted; the presence of mind without limitations.
My life was over but I never got what I wanted.

fixed focus

Resolved, to live with all my might while I do live.
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, to improve it in the most profitable way I can.
Resolved, never to do anything I should despise or think meanly of in another.
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
Resolved, never to do anything that I should be afraid to do if it wer the last hour of my life.