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To: Mad Dawg
Tomorrow's reading from Ecclesiastes so I thought I would post this on time.

TAKE TIME FOR ELEVEN THINGS

 

TAKE TIME TO WORK,

            IT IS THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.

TAKE TIME TO THINK,

            IT IS THE SOURCE OF POWER

TAKE TIME TO PLAY,

            IT IS THE SECRET OF YOUTH.

TAKE TIME TO READ,

            IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE.

TAKE TIME TO WORSHIP,

            IT IS THE HIGHWAY OF REVERENCE AND WASHES THE DUST OF EARTH FROM YOUR EYES.

TAKE TIME TO HELP AND ENJOY FRIENDS,

            IT IS THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS.

TAKE TIME TO LOVE,

            IT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LIFE.

TAKE TIME TO DREAM,

            IT HITCHES THE SOUL TO THE STARS.

TAKE TIME TO LAUGH,

            IT IS THE SINGING THAT HELPS WITH LIFE'S LOADS.

TAKE TIME TO PRAY

            IT IS THE GREATEST POWER ON EARTH.

TAKE TIME TO PLAN

            IT IS THE SECRET TO BEING ABLE TO HAVE TIME TO TAKE TIME FOR         THE FIRST TEN THINGS.

 

ANONYMOUS


1,004 posted on 09/23/2010 10:30:12 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Mad Dawg
Or how about this thought provoking piece?

THE VALUE OF TIME

 

Imagine there’s a bank which credits your account each morning with 86,400 dollars, carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.  What would you do?  Draw out every cent, of course.

 Well, everyone has such a bank.  Its name is Time.  Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.  Every night it wipes off, as lost, whatever of this you had failed to invest to good purpose.  It carries over no balance.  It allows no overdrafts.  Each day it opens a new account for you; each night it burns the records of the day.  If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.  There is no going back; there is no drawing against tomorrow.  You must live in the present on today’s deposits.  Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success.  The clock is running.  Make the most of today.

To realize the value of one year, ask a student who has failed his final exam.

To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

 To realize the value of one week, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one day, ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.

 To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovebirds who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who has missed the train.

 To realize the value of one second, ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who has just won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment and use it wisely.


1,005 posted on 09/23/2010 10:34:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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