*~*~Today's Gift - 05/23/04~*~*
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| Sun, 05-23-2004 - 9:06am |
From the daily devotional I get per email. It was taken from the book 'Igniting the Spirit at Work' by Marilyn Mason.
Today's thought is:
No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.
--Turkish proverb
A wake-up call a life-changing event or circumstance can indeed be a gift. Sometimes wake-up calls are related to our work.
Hugh had worked long hours in his entrepreneurial firm. At 41, he was very successful financially and also rich in his family life, with three young daughters and a wife who was his best friend. He kept telling himself that within three years he could slow down; by then he would have met his goals. At his yearly physical, however, Hugh learned that he had cancer. He felt stunned as he drove home; he could not tell his wife, Janeen, until later that night when the children were asleep. Together, they cried. Hugh realized this was a wake-up call -- the awakening crisis -- that bolted him into full awareness of what his life had been about in these start-up years. Hugh and Janeen immediately set goals for their next years and listed their priorities. Suddenly Hugh's business was no longer a top priority; his family was.
Just for today, I will ask myself how I can live most fully, without a wake-up call.
Love & hugs, Kristina
The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.
