Grace is where you don't mention the fact that your spouse's animals spit up (or worse) on the carpet and just clean it up.
Grace is when you also don't mention you already had fish for lunch and just appreciate the yummy fish prepared for dinner.
Graciousness is not reminding people they have already told that story. Some stories just bear repeating.
Grace is forgiving and forgiving and forgiving and forgiving .......
Monday, December 5, 2011
Aphorisms - Witticisms - Wisdom
Which is precisely what I want to impart!
I may not be balanced on any of those and they may not weigh the same. (Surely the older I grow the Wisdom should increase, though.)
I picked up the habit during the 70s, when intentional growth was popular, of printing out an aphorism in one inch type and trying to learn something by pasting it up on the mirror; on my office walls; or above my coats in the closet.
Imagine people's surprise if they should open my closet and see an instruction to somehow be a better person.
I've recently revived the effort with sentences such as, "Just get up and walk!" or "God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."
I've noticed people are putting bits of wisdom - sayings, aphorisms - on their living room walls in huge, six inch lettering (if HGTV is any indication.) That is a bit much for me; it's as if they want everyone to know they are working on self-improvement. Love! Family! Grace!
I think it was IBM who put the word THINK up on their walls.
Witticisms have been with me as long as I can remember. I admired my dad's ability to put a smile on anybody's face. My humor mostly stays inside my head. And that's a good thing. However, I can throw out a line or two on occasion.
I find that if I speak or write a bit of wisdom out there, I am more likely to try to live up to it. Sage epiphanies feel great at the outset but experiencing change after your realization takes a while. And, if the wisdom privately and quietly resides only in my thoughts, it is much easier to ignore.
The Internet is so busy with AWW (Aphorisms,Witticisms and Wisdom - are you paying attention?) that I often get more of those kinds of emails than anything else. Well-meaning friends and family wanting to share the bounty, no doubt.
This blog shall have a liberal sprinkling of my own as well as borrowed AWWs. To wit: Life is what happens while you are waiting for your plans to pan out.
I may not be balanced on any of those and they may not weigh the same. (Surely the older I grow the Wisdom should increase, though.)
I picked up the habit during the 70s, when intentional growth was popular, of printing out an aphorism in one inch type and trying to learn something by pasting it up on the mirror; on my office walls; or above my coats in the closet.
Imagine people's surprise if they should open my closet and see an instruction to somehow be a better person.
I've recently revived the effort with sentences such as, "Just get up and walk!" or "God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."
I've noticed people are putting bits of wisdom - sayings, aphorisms - on their living room walls in huge, six inch lettering (if HGTV is any indication.) That is a bit much for me; it's as if they want everyone to know they are working on self-improvement. Love! Family! Grace!
I think it was IBM who put the word THINK up on their walls.
Witticisms have been with me as long as I can remember. I admired my dad's ability to put a smile on anybody's face. My humor mostly stays inside my head. And that's a good thing. However, I can throw out a line or two on occasion.
I find that if I speak or write a bit of wisdom out there, I am more likely to try to live up to it. Sage epiphanies feel great at the outset but experiencing change after your realization takes a while. And, if the wisdom privately and quietly resides only in my thoughts, it is much easier to ignore.
The Internet is so busy with AWW (Aphorisms,Witticisms and Wisdom - are you paying attention?) that I often get more of those kinds of emails than anything else. Well-meaning friends and family wanting to share the bounty, no doubt.
This blog shall have a liberal sprinkling of my own as well as borrowed AWWs. To wit: Life is what happens while you are waiting for your plans to pan out.
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