It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Faith & Family => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on January 21, 2014, 10:29:18 AM
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TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE.
"TIME". On his deathbed Alexander the Great summoned his generals and told them his three ultimate wishes:
The best doctors should carry his coffin;
The wealth he had accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the way to his burial; and
His hands should be left hanging outside the coffin for all to see. Surprised by these unusual requests, one of his generals asked Alexander to explain.
Here is what he said:
I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal;
I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that the wealth acquired on earth, stays on earth.
I want my hands to swing in the wind so that people understand that we come to this world empty-handed and we leave empty-handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted - Time.
Time is our most precious treasure because it is limited. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back. Our time is our life!
The best present you can give your family and friends is your time.
May we all have the wisdom to give it.
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He didn't build, er say that!
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I can think of no better way to spend my time than with family and friends.
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I can think of no better way to spend my time than with family and friends.
And it's really lonely when you cannot do that. My wife's up in WI tending almost mature granddaughter and the dogs while our daughter and husband are vacationing in the Caribbean. I'm still sick with a nasty cold, and the weather sucks, and I just plain miss my wife.
She'll be back on Friday - IF a major snow storm doesn't hit us or them.