I can’t believe my baby is turning 32 on July 3rd and has a baby of his own. Where does the time go? It seems the older you get the faster time flies or maybe it’s just that we fly slower as time ages us. One nice thing about growing older, we have more time to relax and enjoy our memories. We have more time to think about life.
One day my children were small building castles in their sand box, swinging on swings screaming ‘faster, daddy, faster’, wishing on stars and dreaming silly dreams. O, to be a child again when there was no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space, when you could trust that in time all your problems would work themselves out, when nothing really belonged to us but time – as a child you had all the time in the world and time to enjoy all of the world.
If by chance my son is reading this, I shall leave him with Thomas A Kempis’ rules for living life to think about -- when he has time.
“My son resolve to do the will of others rather than your own.
Always choose to posses less rather than more.
Always take the lowest place, and regard yourself as less than others.
Desire and pray always that God’s will may be perfectly fulfilled in you.
A man who observes these rules shall come to enjoy peace and tranquility of soul.”
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