I enjoy bass fishing, deer hunting and golfing in the south.
There are only two places
In this league,
First Place and No Place.
- Tom Seaver
I’m a huge advocate of pitching.
You have to have good pitching
As the solid core, the foundation.
It keeps you in every game.
- Tom Seaver
A good professional athlete must
Have the love of a little boy.
And the good players feel the
Kind of love for the game that
They did when they were
Little Leaguers.
- Tom Seaver
Give Me Jesus
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise,
give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus
And when I am alone
Oh, and when I am alone
And when I am alone,
give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus
And when I come to die
Oh, and when I come to die
And when I come to die,
give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus
Writer: Fernando Ortega
Jesus Name Above All Names
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ABLHdPIzw
Focus, focus, focus.
All people who have achieved
greatness have been very focused people.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Freedom comes from focus,
focus brings freedom.
Focus on fear you will always be in prison,
focus on faith and is nothing the world can
keep you knocked down.
- Patience Johnson
The Story of Your Life…
We each have a story of our life.
How we choose to label the story will have
a major impact on whether we will experience
much happiness or much sadness.
[How we choose to label the story depends on
what we choose to compare the experiences to…
something better and feel disappointed and bitter
but something worse and feel relieved,
happy and grateful.]
Two people might have very similar life experiences,
but one person will keep his main focus on the things
that he was happy about,
while the other focuses on the opposite.
One person focuses mainly on his achievements and successes,
and how he can keep developing himself and achieving even
more in the future.
The other person focuses mainly on his failures and limitations.
One person’s life is full of gratitude and appreciation,
while the other person’s life is full of resentment and regrets.
- Zelig Pliskin
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Don't fear failure so much
That you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of life
Contains three descriptions…
Could have, might have and should have.
- Louis E. Boone
What love we've given,
We’ll have forever.
What love we fail to give,
Will be lost for all eternity.
- Leo Buscaglia
It is good to have an end
To journey toward,
But it is the journey
That matters in the end.
- Ernest Hemingway
God's got to come first.
You're family's got to come second.
And business has got to come third.
- Art Williams
If you want to be successful,
It’s just this simple.
Know what you are doing.
Love what you are doing.
And believe in what you are doing.
- Will Rogers
Whatever we plant in our
Subconscious mind and
Nourish with repetition
And emotion will one day
Become reality.
- Earl Nightingale
In Loving Memory of my friend
And sister in Christ.
Sammie Lou Latham
October 3, 1935 – July 22, 2023
"It is better to take refuge
In the Lord than to trust in man."
Psalm 118:8
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your gold and
good health have vanished.
- Og Mandino
“When thou passest through the waters,
They shall not overflow thee…”
Isaiah 43:2
“When Thou passest through the waters,”
Deep the waves may be, and cold,
But Jehovah is our refuge
And His promise is our hold;
For the Lord Himself hath said it,
He the faithful God and true;
“When thou comest to the waters,
Thou shalt not go down, but through.
Seas of sorrow, seas of trial,
Bitterest anguish, fiercest pain,
Rolling surges of temptation,
Sweeping over heart and brain,
They shall never overflow us,
For we know His word is true;
All His waves and all His billows
He will lead us safely through.
Threatening breakers of destruction,
Doubt’s insidious undertow,
Shall not sink us, shall not drag us
Out to ocean depths of woe;
For His promise shall sustain us,
Praise the Lord, whose word is true!
We shall not go down or under,
He hath said, “Though passest through.”
- Annie Johnson Flint
And one has to understand
That braveness is not the absence of fear,
But rather the strength to keep on going
Forward despite the fear.
- Paulo Coelho
We don't stop playing
because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.
It makes little difference what’s happening out there.
It’s how you take it that counts.
- Denis Waitley
Your season is not over.
Get up and receive it.
- Cecelia Weir
Nothing is as real as a dream.
The world can change around you,
But your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it.
Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you,
No one can take it away.
- Tom Clancy
Your life is a book;
It has visions, it builds dreams.
You should live it from cover to cover.
Don't let the reader assume anything…
You create the mental scene,
You give the emotional intensity,
You develop its reality,
You create the Life of the Book.
- Cecelia Weir
You only pass through this life once;
You don't come back for an encore.
- Elvis Presley
Alabama Live at The Ryman 2014
“That’s How I Was Raised”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFkAUg7jdjQ
“The sinful, all the nations that forget God,
Will be turned back into the grave.”
Psalm 9:17
“Being right with God makes a nation great,
But sin is a shame to any people.”
Proverbs 14:34
America, Repent or Perish!
America, you are ripe for judgment;
Your cup of sin is full and foaming over;
You are at ease in Zion, pleasure bent;
God’s bitter vial of wrath you do bestir!
America, repent while you have time;
The LORD is free with grace and will forgive;
It must be real… not just a pantomime;
If not, you shall pass through God’s chastening sieve!
Beware, God’s grinding grapes of wrath await;
The land that’s sick will spew you out;
Behold, your crooked ways must be made straight,
Or by God’s wrath you will be cast out!
- James E. Gibbons
“If My people who are called by My name
put away their pride and pray,
and look for My face,
and turn from their sinful ways,
then I will hear from heaven.
I will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
Life begets life.
Energy begets energy.
It is by spending oneself
That one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Christian faith is a grand cathedral,
With divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you can see no glory,
Nor can imagine any, but standing within,
Every ray of light reveals a harmony of
Unspeakable splendors.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The question is not whether
A doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true.
When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask
Whether the road leads through a pretty country,
But whether it is the right road.
- Augustus William and Julius Charles Hare
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Be a Doer…
Be a doer of the Word,
read your Bible and then act,
don't just be a Gospel hearer
you must give something back.
You can lend a helping hand,
Or give someone else your ear
let everyone know that you will be
a friend who is always near.
Pray for those who ask you to,
And more so, for those who don't
pray for their eternal salvation
because you know that they won't.
Look for the good in others,
Most people only see the bad
let them know Jesus loves them
and doesn't want them feeling sad.
There's so much that you can do,
To help other people out
all you have to do is ask them
what their worries are all about.
I don't always have the answers,
But I know just where to look
for the truth, the way, and the light
are written in the Good Book!
“Obey the Word of God.
If you hear only and do not act,
You are only fooling yourself.
Anyone who hears the Word of God
And does not obey is like a man
Looking at his face in a mirror.
After he sees himself and goes away,
He forgets what he looks like.”
James 1:22-24
- Deborah Ann Belka
When we learn to say a deep,
Passionate yes to the things
That really matter,
Then peace begins to settle
Onto our lives like golden sunlight
Sifting to a forest floor.
- Thomas Kinkade
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The top 6 regrets of the dying
You've heard this before…
No one on his or her deathbed ever said,
'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'
Here are the other things you'll likely regret.
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true
To myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I had not worked so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish I had let myself be happier.
6. I wish I had saved more for retirement.
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Have You Earned Your Tomorrow
Is
anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?
Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?
Or a churlish sort of "Howdy" and then vanish in the throng?
Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,
Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?
Can
you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day, or lose it; was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?
- Edgar Guest
“Death and
life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Prov. 18:21
Words have power…
I hope these words
May bring comfort,
Peace and hope.
- Hayden Childs
Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal…
It is the courage to
Continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
You were given this life,
Because you are strong
Enough to live it.
– Robin Sharma
Anyone can hide.
Facing up to things,
Working through them,
That’s what makes you strong.
- Sarah Dessen
Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
And living alone won’t either,
For solitude will also break you
With its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken,
Or betrayed, or left, or hurt,
Or death brushes near,
Let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen
To the apples falling all around you in heaps,
Wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
- Louise Erdrich
You can give without loving,
But you cannot love without
Giving.
- Amy Carmichael
For a crowd is not company;
And faces are but a gallery of
Pictures; and talk but a tinkling
Cymbal, where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Do everything with so much
Love in your heart that you
Would never want to do it any
Other way.
- Yogi Desai
Do not keep the alabaster boxes
Of your love and tenderness sealed
Up until your friends are dead.
Fill their lives with sweetness,
Speak cheering words while their
Ears can hear, and while their hearts
Can be thrilled and made happier by
Them.
- Williams Childs
20 Wise Ways to Live Without Regret…
(1) Compliment at least three people every day.
(2) Watch a sunrise at least once a week.
(3) Be the first to say, “Hello.”
(4) Live beneath your means.
(5) Treat everyone like you want to be treated.
(6) Never give up on anyone…
- They can change!
(7) Forget the Joneses!
(8) Never deprive someone of hope.
- It may be all he/she has.
(9) Pray not for “things”,
- But for wisdom and courage.
(10) Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
(11) Be kinder than necessary.
(12) Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional
- need is to feel appreciated.
(13) “Keep” your promises!
(14) Learn to show cheerfulness, even when
- You don’t feel like it.
Remember that overnight success usually
- takes about fifteen years!
(15) Leave everything better than you found it.
(16) Remember that winners “do”
- What losers don’t want to do!
(17) When you arrive at your job in the morning,
- let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
(18) Don’t “rain”" on other people’s parades!
(19) Never waste an opportunity to tell someone
- You love them.
(20) Give God “first place” in your life (Matt. 6:33).
- Mike Riley
Dream as if
You’ll live forever,
Live as if
You’ll die today.
- James Dean
Live Like You Were Dying…
He
said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me
and one moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays
Talking bout' the options and talking bout' sweet times.
I asked him when it sank in, that this might really be the real end
How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news?
Man what did ya do?
He said
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
He said I was finally the husband, that most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend, a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden goin' fishin, wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
Well I finally read the good book, and I took a good long hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Shu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
Like tomorrow was the end
And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it
What should you do with it
What can I do with it
What would I do with it
I went Skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And man I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'
To live like you were dyin'
To live like you were dyin'
To live like you were dyin'
To live like you were dyin'
Artist: Tim McGraw
Writers: Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman.
Album: Live Like You Were Dying
Original Release Date: 2004-08-24
Success is not just the crowning moment,
The spiking of the ball in the end zone
Or the raising of the flag on the summit.
It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and,
Sometimes, it begins with failure."
- Erik Weihenmayer
(Only blind man to scale the Eight Summits
The most challenging peaks in the world.)
What he had not learned, however, was this…
To find contentment in himself and his own life.
- Herman Hesse
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Think only on those things that are in line
With your principles and can bear the light of day.
The content of your character is your choice.
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
- Heraclitus
“For what profit is it to a man
If he gains the whole world,
And loses his own soul?
Or what will a man give in
Exchange for his soul?
Matt.16:26
