“”If the horse dies, get off.”
— Kinky Friedman
So often we hold on to the past as if we’re saddled to it, somehow missing the fact that it’s like a dead horse: Not going anywhere.
It can’t bring you to the present so it most certainly won’t carry you into the future. And if you insist on riding it anyway, at some point, you need to understand, it will begin to stink.
May you always remember that the only place the past belongs is in the past.
Love
Bill Martuge
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely upon what you think.”
— Dale Carnegie
Most people don’t believe it but it really is possible to think yourself happy. You start with one happy thought followed by another and another until pretty soon you’re stacking them on top of each other, like layers of joy bricks. After awhile, you will have built such a solid wall of happy thoughts around yourself that wherever you go, you’ll radiate joy. And all because one day you made the decision that no matter what, you were going to think a happy thought.
Just think a happy thought.
Then think another.
And another.
And another.
And another.
It really is that easy.
May your happy thoughts be numerous and always close at hand.
Love
Bill Martuge
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
—Helen Keller
The very best way to feel better about your own life is to make someone else feel better about theirs.
Today would be an excellent day to make yourself feel better.
May you always be willing to help someone else find the joy you seek.
Love
Bill Martuge
“See everything for what it is: the perfect event perfectly timed to provide you with the perfect opportunity to express in the perfect way that which is Perfection Itself.”
—Neale Donald Walsch
from Happier Than God
When we label any circumstance as a problem or any person as troublesome we give Fear permission to take control. When we treat everything as perfect, — even the troublesome people and problematic circumstances — we give Love permission to take control.
Love does a better job.
May you always be willing to see the perfection.
Love
Bill Martuge
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said, “This is for you, Momma.”
The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her anger flared again when she opened the box and found it was empty. She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner.
“Don’t you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package?”
She had tears in her eyes and said, “Oh, Momma, it’s not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full.”
The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold box by her bed for all the years of her life.
Whenever she was discouraged or faced difficult problems she would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have been given a Golden box filled with love and kisses from our children, family, friends and GOD. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
Love
Bill Martuge