In the end, the only thing we will regret are the things we didn’t do. My dad had a favorite saying that stuck with me…don’t get to the end of your life and look back and realize you never took time to “live”. Of course, being a florist, he also loved to tell me to take time to smell the roses. I think he was right on both counts!

  If you run into someone without a smile, give them yours. It’s a pretty inexpensive gift and one size fits all! So go hand out all the smiles you can to all the people you can. They’ll love it…the gift that’s sure to please.

The 4 C’s in life are pretty important. What are they? Choice, Chance, Clutter and Change. Dealing with the first three will result in the fourth one. We have to make a choice to take a chance and get the clutter out of our lives if we want anything in our life to change. “The clutter I’m talking about isn’t just the stuff in your closet. It’s anything that gets between you and the life that you want to be living.”

  Falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice. So many times we see the “falling down” as our fault, our greatest failure. And we grab hold of the pain it causes and we SIT! The failure is not in falling down, it’s in staying down! So get up and move forward.

In the long run, I’d rather someone hurt me with the truth than comfort me with a lie. Now nobody looks forward to the harsh truth, but if we never hear it, then we will spend our lives buried under Satan’ lies. We were meant to live free from those lies. There’s freedom in truth and bondage in lies.

Being strong doesn’t mean you don’t cry. A strong person is the one who may cry and shed a few tears but then gets up and fights again. I’m not sure who needs to hear this today but I want you to know that God’s got this. He hasn’t left you “unattended”. Do you know the Bible says in Psalm 56:8 (New Living Translation) that God collects our tears in a bottle? It’s okay to cry just be sure you get back up and fight a little more when you’re done shedding those tears.