3 Kinds of people you need in your life.

A Timothy – you are mentoring.

A Barnabas – someone encouraging you.
A Paul – a teacher teaching you.
Every Christ-centered church should have people like these.

You don’t have to worry about having a poor memory just as long as you tell the truth all the time.
The person who is unafraid of the truth stays courageous and has nothing to fear from lies. Be
courageous then.

I was on vacation yet my team takes very good care of my businesses while I am away. Extremely
proud of them.
Here is the lesson I have learned over the years.
Small dreams are reached alone. Great dreams require others. You cannot succeed alone no matter
how talented or skillful you are. This is why God gives us friends.

MID LIFE WOES?

Why do I keep on getting the same remarks every time I greet somebody on his or her birthday or
when the New Year comes?

“Another year older, time passes so quickly, pretty soon I’ll be in my mid-life crisis, so forth and so
on.”

Funny things have been written about mid-life. Here’s the list:

 Somebody says: Mid-life is when the growth of hair on our legs slows down. This gives us
plenty of time to care for our newly acquired mustache.
 One woman says: “In mid-life women no longer have upper arms, we have wingspans. We are
no longer women in sleeveless shirts, we are flying squirrels in drag.”
 Mid-life is when you can stand naked in front of a mirror and you can see your rear end without
turning around.
 Mid-life is when you go for a mammogram and realize that it is the only time someone will ask
you to appear topless on film.
 Mid-life is when you want to grab every firm young lovely in a tube top and scream “Listen
honey, even the Roman Empire fell, and those will, too!”
 Mid-life brings with it the wisdom to know that life throws us curves and we’re sitting on our
biggest ones.
 Mid-life is when you look at your know-it-all, cell phone totting teenager and think, “For this I
have stretch marks??”
 In mid-life your memory starts to go. In fact, the only thing we can still retain is water.
 Mid-life means that you become more reflective. You start pondering the “big” questions. What
is life? Why am I here? How much Healthy Choice ice cream can I eat before it’s no longer a
healthy choice?
 But, mid-life also brings with it an appreciation for what is important.
We realize that everything sags, hips expand, and chins double, but our loved ones make the
journey worthwhile. Would any of you trade the knowledge that you have now for the body you had
back then?

Maybe our bodies simply have to expand to hold all of the wisdom and love we’ve acquired …that’s
my philosophy and I’m sticking to it!

Good for her!

Now that’s what I call a healthy perspective on aging.

Young people keep wanting to look older, and old people keep wanting to look younger. Middle-
aged people just keep looking for their reading glasses. And if there’s one thing we have to
remember it is that the mid-life experience does not have to be a time of crisis. It is a time of
appreciating the finer things of life and learning that life is a gift from God.

Victor Hugo, titan of French literature, was once called upon to comfort a friend who had arrived at
his 50th birthday and was depressed at the idea of growing old.
“You should rejoice, my friend,” Hugo told him, “that you have escaped your forties, which are the
old age of youth, and have at last arrived at the age of fifty, which is the youth of old age.”

Let me share with you a prayer of a person who is in his mid-life experience.

Perhaps this can help:

Lord,

You know better than I myself that I am growing older and will some day be old. Keep me from that
fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me
from craving to straighten out everyone’s affairs. Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful, but not
bossy.

With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all, but You know, Lord, that I want a few
friends at the end.

Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips
on my aches and pains. They are increasing and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as
the years go by.

I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of others’ pains, but help me to endure them with
patience. I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening
cocksureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious
lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

Keep me reasonable, sweet. I do not want to be a saint: some of them are so hard to live with, but a
sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in
unexpected places and talents in unexpected people. Give me the grace to tell them so.

When put into this light, being in mid-life is not so bad after all.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for
money. Benjamin Franklin
Some people think they can use money to buy their way into everything and that everyone has a
price. They’re not very nice and I’m being polite. Have you met such people? I certainly have. And
guess what? They’re actually not happy!

Words of wisdom from the master motivator and my hero Zig Ziglar:
There are two sure ways to fail: Think and never do, or do and never think.”
There are so many ideas that are frozen in the fridge because of the lack of execution. There are
many ventures done without the benefit of careful thinking. And thus end up in disaster.