Category: Death

I’ll Quit Tomorrow

The addicts death sentence..."I'll quit tomorrow."

— JJ Meyer —

The addicts death sentence…”I’ll quit tomorrow.” I can’t help but write about what I am feeling right now. My wife and I were discussing the genesis of my blog a couple of days ago.  I started it in 2008 because I viewed it as an opportunity to make a dent in the devil’s playground, i.e….

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Past Building

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

— Domenico Cieri Estrada —

  The older I get the more I am amazed at how many people get stuck in a rut due to something that happened to them years ago and the rut conveniently turns into a grave with a life that stopped living because of the past. Nuff Said. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Isaiah 43:18, “Remember not the…

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Live or Exist

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde —

  Are you living or existing? I know what it is like to live and I have also existed…existing sucks. I started living the day I committed to taking care of my spiritual, mental and physical being on a daily basis. Living takes work, existing takes nothing. Are you working at living or dying to…

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Matter

Life is too short not to do something that matters.

— Hugh MacLeod —

Are you doing something that matters these days? You never know when your last breath will be taken but if you are reading this blog you still have time to do something that matters. How do you know if you are doing something that matters? Take an inventory of your daily activity for a week…

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Grateful for Health*

“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”  ~Materi Today I am grateful for my health as I had my annual heart check-up yesterday and things are looking good. Some of you may remember the shout-out for prayer I issued about 18 months ago as I was diagnosed…

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Growth and Death

Many people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they are 75.  ~Benjamin Franklin P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever you do, do well.  For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.”

Daily focalPOINT – True Success

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”  ~Henry David Thoreau The moment I began experiencing true success is when I quit chasing it and began to live a day at a time and at the end of each day took the time to reflect whether or not I had…

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