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I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love am having a hard time with today. But today is really all we have and it is what we do with it!
Noah's Ark : Everyting I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark. I doubt it. We learn from many places and people and experiences.
ONE: Don't miss the boat. It’s got nothing to do with being on the boat. It has to do with making good decisions, being a caring person, love.
TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat! Not true, we each have our separate problems to deal with and our own successes. While we all come from the same source how we live our lives can be different as night and day.
THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. Sometimes there is no way to guess what might be needed in the future. So just live one day at a time and do the best you can.
FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. A shame if you waited until you were 60 to do something really big. Hopefully your life will be filled with many big things over time, especially if you know how to look for them.
FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. This is somewhat true although sometimes the critics are right. Most important however, is to listen to yourself, to your heart.
SIX: Build your future on high ground. No matter how high the ground you might still drown. Or you might know how much is enough and live purely and simply.
SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs. Sometimes the pairs work and other times you need to leave the other behind. Actually LOVE is all you have.
EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs. Sometimes delayed actions miss the opportunity. Traveling is the point not how slowly or quickly.
NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile. Or drown. Or have a good cry, meditate, count what you are grateful for and the stress will dissipate.
TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. And they both caused a lots of deaths. Either way we all die and what counts is how we spent our life and how we loved.
ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting. If God exists and while there might be a rainbow waiting it usually disappears with the sun. God is within, trust yourself, know what matters, LOVE!
You are entitled to your opinions and feelings, whether they are negative or positive, but I have to say that I DO like the GREEN lines better.
ReplyDeleteMuch love to you! xoxo
I think the green and red represents my ups and downs. I try to end up in the green most of the time.
ReplyDeleteI have often found the Noah story rather troubling. God gets really upset with mankind so decides to almost completely wipe it out. That first creation just didn't work out the way he wanted so like a petulant child who has lost self-control, gets rid of it all, except for Noah and his family and representatives of the various species, who survive. And because he has this anger management issue, he is upset with himself for his over reaction to the "not meeting expectations" humanity and in mea culpa form creates the rainbow. Methinks a dramatic finale to a horrible blunder.
ReplyDeleteYour red comments seem more apropos to Noah's story.
Your green comments seem more apropos to living in the world with more awareness and compassion.