Things That Life Is Too Short For


            • Life is too short to iced 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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