The Great Secret of Life
One of the great paradoxes of life is that the young are always wishing they were just a little older and the old are usually wishing they were a whole lot younger.
The great secret of life is to be happy where you are in the process doing the best you can with what you have. It is common to think that the grass is always greener on the other side. Your job is to face whatever challenges that may be in front of you right now (today) and do whatever you can to make them right. If you are facing a challenge today what makes you think that it will be easier to overcome or deal with tomorrow? Don’t fret about the past or be to consumed with the future, but live now. I recently read a story about a minister who was having a difficult time going to sleep because he was so worried about the future and the condition of the world. God said to him, “Go to sleep bishop. I will stay up and watch over things.” If you do your best today trust that things will work out. Everything is going to be okay when all the dust settles. Face the truth, be responsible, smile and keep moving forward.
Consider the following: “Rock of Ages,” one of the most popular Christian hymns, was composed under unusual circumstance. In 1775, Augustus Toplady took shelter from a storm in a cleft of a large rock at Barrington Coombe in Somerset, England, and while waiting for the rain to stop, wrote this famous song on the only piece of paper he could find – a playing card. Just doing the best you can where you are at with what you’ve got may make more of a difference in the world than you think.
