The New Life, Inc.

My dear Children,

I am in Arcadia Florida.  I just came in from a brisk two-mile walk and I enjoyed it.  It got my blood flowing and made me feel good.  Pauline always gets up earlier than I do.  At seventy-one, she is a pretty busy lady.  She starts off with an hour of exercise and then a two-mile walk.  We don’t often walk together because we walk at different speeds and she often walks with some of her friends of which she has many.

Pauline is more of a people person then I am, she loves to be busy all the time.  She love’s to play games.  I, on the other hand, am not a very good game person.  I like to win all the time and I don’t, so I don’t enjoy it so much.  Pauline enjoys it if she wins or not.  As a result, she plays games every chance she gets.  I only play when I have to.

Now I enjoy working picture puzzles.  I can work on them for hours. Pauline doesn’t like the way I work on them because I put all the edge pieces together first and then I pick some particular object in the puzzle and put that together and so I have several parts I am working on. That is to much disorder for Pauline so she will not do it. She would start in one place and keep building on it till she was done.  So I work on a good puzzle and Pauline plays her games with her several friends and we both enjoy what we are doing.  We are enjoying life and we have stopped robbing one another of enjoyment.  I remember something Donald my brother shared at a meeting many years ago.  It had to do with a bucket of joy.  Whenever your bucket is full of joy there is always someone around that would like to take it from you or kick your bucket over.

Dear children don’t insist that everyone be like you, and you don’t have to be like everyone else. Try to enjoy life to the fullest and don’t hinder someone else from enjoying it.

Several years of our marriage was not very good because we were expecting more from one another than what we had to offer.  One thing I have learned over a long period of time; It takes time to learn to be a good giver and expect nothing back.  It also takes a long time to learn to be a gracious receiver from those that want to give something to you and not get paid for it.  I pray that you will learn this faster then I did.

So many people wanted to help me through the years and I did not know enough to axcept that help.

Why didn’t I accept that help?  I had too much pride!  And I had no reason to be prideful.  I had never done anything to be proud of.

My dear children may the Lord Jesus bless everyone of you with a little humility.

I pray for every one of you every day.

I love you,

Dad

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