Love
If you make wealth or having a full life, or changing the world, or even helping people the supreme goal of your life, you will never have enough. But if you make love the supreme goal of your life, you will always have more than enough.
Monkey Bars
I was talking with my wife's father, a retired pastor, and he told me about an image he used in many of his sermons throughout the years. It is a thing that every kid learns on the monkey bars on the playground at school. It is simply this: when you are on the monkey bars, you can't move forward until you let the hand behind you let go of the last bar. In this way, I am kind of stuck in my life. The trailing monkey bar is my smoking cigarettes. I just haven't been able to let go of that bar no matter how hard I try. I believe that this bar gives me a lift. You see, I suffer from a chronic depression. When I go outside and have a smoke and a caffeinated beverage, I get a little boost to my mood. Often this gets me back on track and I start doing things besides laying in bed. I might do the dishes and I feel better about what I have accomplished. I might, being awake ...
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