Things That Life Is Too Short For

  • Life is too short to ice cakes. Cakes are good without icing.
  • Life is too short to read all the church periodicals.
  • Life is too short not to write regularly to your parents.
  • Life is too short to eat factory baked bread.
  • Life is too short to keep all your floors shiny.
  • Life is too short to let a day pass without hugging your spouse
    and each of your children.
  • Life is too short to nurse grudges and hurt feelings.
  • It's too short to worry about getting ready for Christmas.
    Just let Christmas come.
  • Life is too short to spend much money on neckties and earrings.
  • It's too short for nosey questions like, "How do you like your new pastor?"
    or if there's been a death, "How is he taking it?"
  • It's too short to be gone from home more than a few nights a week.
  • It's too short not to take a nap when you need one.
  • It's too short to give importance to whether purses match shoes or
    towels match bathrooms.
  • It's too short to stay indoors when the trees turn color in fall, when
    it snows or when the spring blossoms come out.
  • Life is too short to miss the call to worship on Sunday morning.
  • It's too short for bedspreads that are too fancy to sleep under.
  • Life is too short to work in a room without windows.
  • Life is too short to put off Bible study.
  • It's too short to put off improving our relationships with the people
    that we live with.

Copyright © Doris Longacre


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