We Don’t Celebrate Today Like We Celebrate Christmas, For Good Reason

A rack of ‘party pants’ at a Golf store in Detroit’s airport…

I much prefer cut-off jeans, by the way. We don’t celebrate jeff noel’s birthday with the same joy as Jesus’ birthday, for good reason.

But if you want to share presents, email someone you love the link(s) so they can take a look at these Mid Life Celebration Blogs and decide for themselves to stay or move on.

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Do You Thank God For The Wrong Turns In Your Life?

Driving through Nova Scotia last month, we passed this…

To get to this…

And we finally saw what caused the traffic backup.

A wrong turn out of the Halifax airport added 15-20 minutes to our trip. Only 20 cars back before traffic stopped. Maybe those 20 minutes saved our lives.

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The Joy of Living

The Joy of Living is one of the most elusive of all endowments.

Why? Just watch a child and you’ll find your answer. Having a child (9-year old boy) in our home is a daily reminder.

We all, at least I do, need daily reminders of this simple fact, don’t we? Why? Because life is hard, especially in today’s challenging and uncertain world.

Every day is an opportunity to count our blessings. Anyone need a calculator?

I Don’t Know How to Start

A lifetime of learned behaviors. Life is hard. And mostly difficult. And busy. And distracting.

Some days, maybe while watching a movie or TV show, we see a Family that seems to have it all together and wonder why we can’t live like that.

It’s a movie, okay? It’s not real. Yet perhaps there’s some compromise between what’s portrayed in books and movies, and what is our current reality.

Maybe. maybe not.

I’d like to find out.

Carpe diem, jeff 🙂

Failing?

Failing? Probably. It weighs heavy on my soul and heart. I’d really like to be a better:

  • Son
  • Brother
  • Nephew
  • Uncle

Yet after decades of learned behavior, there’s a struggle deep down inside that seems overwhelming.

Overwhelming, yes. Impossible, no.

The people involved in this are going to have to want this too. It takes two. This is not a one-sided challenge, nor a one-sided opportunity. Is it me, or is that ticking sound the clock?