IT'S NEVER TOO LATE

It is never too late to live with richness, purpose, joy and love.

No matter how much time you feel you have wasted or lost,

it is never too late to make the most of the moment you are in.

No matter how many mistakes you think you have made,

it is never too late to start moving in a positive direction.

The instant you choose to fully live,

the past no longer has the power to hold you you back.

Where you are now is precisely where you need to be.

With gratitude in your heart for the journey that has brought you here,

choose now to make the most of where you are.

Starting from this place you can go in any direction.

It is never too late to choose the very best direction you can imagine.

Dig down and get in touch with the real substance of your most treasured dreams.

For what matters most, is always within your reach.

Move right on past the disappointments, the frustrations,

the regrets and the negative assumptions you have accumulated.

It is never too late to fully become the real, authentic, unique and valuable person you are.

By - L. Ron Hubbard

Loved these lines ...thought of sharing them with you .

LIFE

Sometimes we all start wondering, don't we, what life is all about. Especially when things go wrong, or a friend or a dear one hurts your feelings.

As Corita Kent has beautifully said:
"Life is a succession of moments.
To live each one is to succeed "

I was just reading this short story of two friends.
One had a dutiful wife, who would do all her chores, thinking it as her duty and he thanked God for giving him such a wonderful wife.
The other one had a wife just the opposite. She was nagging and cribbing about work all the time, and demanded her husband's help to do it.
But in his prayers, the husband too thanked God for giving him a wonderful wife.
His perspective was that this behaviour of hers also had a hidden advantage.
Unknowingly, she was in a way, by making him do all the work, helping him be fit and independent.
So now it is left to us how we decide how to take things in life and accept them. Though at every stage of our life we do have to make adjustments with everyone, we will be happy only when we learn to accept things as they are.

Like the saying goes:
Life is a package of surprises....open it and accept it.
It is God`s gift to you.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

Today I saw an e-mail which really touched my heart. I would like to share the gist of it with you.
This reflects on the behaviour of some of the youngsters these days.
There was this young couple who had their father living with them. They just got fed up of his age-induced clumsiness. He would drop his spoons and forks...spoil the carpet....break the crockery because old age had made him weak and fragile. One day, they just gave him a table in the corner of the room and a wooden bowl to eat from. This behaviour of his children towards him brought tears in his eyes... but he was helpless.
One day the parents see their child collecting wooden pieces in the garden and ask him what he was doing. The child innocently replies,"I am collecting wood to make wooden bowls for you...so that when you are old like grandpa...you may need them."
Imagine what a lesson this child has taught to his parents. After that day, the couple took their father back to the table, and thereafter, never minded about the broken crockery or stained carpets. They had learnt about the circle of life.
Imagine even little kids can teach us a lot, some times.
I believe that life is a process of learning...from anyone...at any age.