Food for thought

I've found today.
I've shut the door on Yesterday,
Its sorrows and mistakes;
I've locked within its gloomy walls
Past failures and heartaches.
And now I throw the key away
To seek another room,
And furnish it with hope and smiles
And every springtime bloom.

No thought shall enter this abode
That has a hint of pain,
And worry, malice and distrust
Shall never therein reign.
I've shut the door on Yesterday
And thrown the key away-
The Future holds no doubt for me,
Since I have found today.
-Author Unknown

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and pulls everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to life. -Celia Luce

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. -Tim McMahon

Troubles are tools by which God fashions us for better things.
-Henry Ward Beecher

1 To man belong the plans of the heart,
but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.
2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the LORD.
3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
4 The LORD works out everything for his own ends—
even the wicked for a day of disaster.
-Proverbs 16:1-4 NIV