Show Abundant Living Making Time a Beautiful Process n By E. E Stanle Stanley Jones Luke Ps 9 81 81 17 As the years cars go by they leave their deposit of suffering in our minds in our memories in our bodies We Ve have seen how to meet these deposits But many find that the greatest deposit of difficulty and suffering left by the time process is just the fact of the process To adjust ourselves to the time process and achieve abundant living at each stage of the process is important Some people remain infantile and never really pass into stages of maturity They bring over infantilisms sms with them into the advancing stages They are misfits Some who are growing old refuse to adjust themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to that fact and are always sighing to be young again fruitlessly again fruitlessly of course To be victorious at each stage one must accept the fact of change and make Inake out of that particular particular- period through which he heis heis heis is passing something very beautiful and effective For each stage of life has something something something some some- thing peculiar to itself in possibility and achievement Youth Is not the only age of possibility each possibility each stage is crammed with possibility of beauty and achievement John saw in Revelation the tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit each month having its own Il fruit Revelation Moffatt On the tree of life here and now each month has its own each fruit fruit each period has hM something distinctive in beauty and possibility childhood childhood youth middle age old age We Ve will not pause at childhood childhood- though it is the most Important age for age for forthe the simple reason that children will not read this book But ut as we go on one the message message message mes mes- sage of childhood to the older stages can be summed up in a letter from a child to his parents Dear Mother Father Mother Father I love you You gave me life Ufe on earth in this body I thank you for tor it With all my heart I want to listen and learn from your experiences in life I know that from this moment henceforth you will be just the best parents you are capable of being Too mature Probably but childhood does shy say that whether expressed In those words or not God as we begin the adventure of livIng living living liv liv- ing out each stage of life give us insight and imagination that we may make male each stage distinctive and beautiful Help us not to waste our time in useless regrets or in reaching for the moon but help us to beautify the hours as they come and 0 o and to press the signet ring of eternity upon each passing moment Amen From the book Abundant Living published published published pub pub- by Abingdon Cokesbury Press Copyright |