Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious.
When you’re young, you dream of living a long, whole life. You exercise more, eat whatever you want and whenever you want, live life riotously, maybe before settling down. Somewhere along the way, LIFE happens, and reality settles in, making one ponder what a good life is.
I have become a much more prayerful and spiritual person since a health issue, at the age of 39, while shoveling snow in the blizzard of 1996. It brought me into a closer relationship with OUR Lord.
So, here’s my list of what I think constitutes a good life, based on my older life experiences.
- Let your loved ones know how much they mean to you.
- Eat Healthier, exercise more, and see your doctor at least once a year. Parents, if NOT for you, for them.
- Pray you or your family never have a serious health issue. Still, LIFE happens when you least expect it, so be prepared – Physically, Mentally, Spiritually, and if possible, Financially, so as not to burden loved ones.
- Pray, then pray some more, that your children and grandchildren are healthy, happy, successful, and that they avoid life’s trappings and pitfalls
- Teach that everyone has talents: some come from books, some from being good with their hands, and others from working in the service industry that supports others’ needs.
- The worst thing any parent can experience is outliving their children or grandchildren. Most parents would trade their lives for theirs in a heartbeat.
- Life is a precious gift to be enjoyed and experienced, not to be walked through with blinders on. The best things in life are freely given and don’t cost you anything. Just look around, and you’ll find them!
Point to Ponder: It was once written that birth, for everyone, is the beginning of death. Death will come for us all like a thief in the night, and we need to be prepared. However, it is sound advice from one who has seen enough life to know its truth, and I am reminded that life decisions have consequences.
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