Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Grow or deteriorate?

June 26 - How many of us would presume to announce, "Well, I'm on my way to licking the gambling habit.  What more can I want, or do:?  I'm fine just the way I am."  Experience has taught us that the price of such smug complacency - or, more politely, self-satisfaction - is an inevitable backslide, punctuated sooner or later by a very rude awakening.  We have to grow, or else we deteriorate.  For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow.  Change we must; we can't stand still.

Am I sometimes tempted to rest on my laurels?

Today I Pray - May I look around me and see that all living things are either growing or deteriorating; nothing that is alive is static  Life flows on.  May I be carried along on that life-flow, unafraid of change, disengaging myself from the snags along the way that hold me back and interrupt my progress.

Today I Will Remember - Living is changing. 

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