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"What
can you do when you have done nothing but mess up your
whole life long?" These were the words I heard
when I turned on the television the other day. They
were coming from one of the talk shows that are so popular
on television these days. I started to turn the
channel but the words I had heard made me stop for an
instant. I looked at the speaker of them. He
couldn't have been more than eighteen years old, but
already he was writing off his life as a useless waste.
I wanted to yell back at him: "You're not dead
yet!"
It is so sad that so many people
cannot get beyond their pasts and live in the present.
There are so many people like that talk show guest.
There are people still in their teen years thinking that
their lives are over. There are people in their
twenties who already feel like they have missed the boat
to success and happiness. There are people in their
thirties and forties who sit around moaning that life has
passed them by. I want to shout to them all:
"Wake up! You're still alive! What have you
done today?"
If you want a happy life you
can't dwell on your past mistakes. If you want joy
and love in your life you have to choose them today.
God gives us a new chance at life every time we wake up in
the morning. It is up to us to seize it.
Today
can be the beginning of a new life for each of us.
We can choose joy right now. We can share love
today. We can live in delight starting at this
moment. It doesn't matter how miserable our past has
been. Our present can be full of joy and our future
can be full of happiness. It doesn't matter if we
are eight or eighty--we can still make our lives
wonderful. Life isn't over until your last
heartbeat. Start today, then, to make your heart
beat with joy, love, and light.
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