Train Time #16

Today, it’s the 5:40 bound for Homewood.

Life is what happens to you while you’re trying to figure out how to live it”
Me…

I thought this one up a long time ago, and it’s interesting how often I forget it’s importance.
I’m 56… and I remember saying this at 36, and 26… And each time, I would look around to see other people who were older and think: “I’m Ok… I’m young and I have plenty of time…”

But now, for the most part, I’m the older one that everyone else is looking at.

However, I am still a believer that with faith, all things are possible.

Believe it or not, I now have a friend who is 89 years… young. He runs his own business, still. And continues filing new patents, still (he is a scientist). And at 89 years of age, he is more spry and energetic then I am at more than 30 years younger.

And he also has a couple things in common with me, that I know has been made evident to me for my benefit…

He sometimes doubts himself and looses his confidence; he looses his faith. In addition, like me, he is also stubborn -which can be a good thing- unless you are wrong.

Faith…!?

Look, I talk about the “F” word all the time. We are all tested from time to time -and no, I do not believe that God tests us. I think life tests us, and we test ourselves by getting into and allowing situations that maybe we should have avoided, or by avoiding situations that we were too afraid to try.

Look, even Jesus Christ was tested: and not by his father, but by the simple fact of who he was, and what he was to accomplish… Satan has free will as well after all. The only difference between him and us (besides the whole Son of God thing) is that whereas so many of us fail, he did not; whereas so many of us loose our faith, He kept His.

So don’t ever underestimate the importance of faith, and how hard it can sometimes be to keep.

And as for stubborn…

I guess the key here is to know when to be and when not to be… stubborn. Yet here again, the answer seems to be, faith.

If it feels wrong… don’t!

If it feels right… do!

…And if it feels important but impossible, than to quote one of my favorite books by Susan Jeffers:

“Feel the fear and do it anyway”

Fear is a part of life; the real key is to know what to do with it and to not let it control you, you’re decisions, or your life.

SO…
(He says to himself)

Stop worrying about how to live your life, and start living it.
…because until the good Lord calls you home, it is never too late.