Life can seem very hard and unfair at times.
Looking Forward
“Keep your eyes forward, Mr. Laydon,” the nuns used to say back when I was in grammar school. Once you heard this, you didn’t dare look anywhere else.
Boy, were we afraid of those nuns. They used to tell us that our parents signed a paper that gave them permission to hit us if we were bad. I don’t know if it was true or not but every once in a while we would get a whack from a ruler and we sure didn’t run to our parents crying because we probably would have gotten another one when we got home. Ahh… the good old days!
How was I, just a mere child with raw knuckles, to know back then that those nuns were, probably unknowingly, giving me some pretty good life advice?
Making A Good Decision
We face decisions everyday. Some are large and some are small. Some can be life changing while others don’t really make much of a difference in our lives at all.
We learn how to make decisions through experience. But, how do you get this experience?
As a parent, because I was not going to be there with my children every step of the way throughout their lives, I needed to teach them how to be able to make good decisions.
Life Can Be Hard
I can’t think of too many people who would say that life is a piece of cake.
Even those who seem to have it all, who are happy, and who are spiritually grounded would tell you that life is not always easy; if someone were to tell you that their life was easy, I would consider the possibility that this person was not telling you the whole truth.