Three Old Men

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long
white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them.

She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please
come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.

"No", she replied. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him
what had happened.

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"

The woman went out and invited the men in"

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.

"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he
said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one,
"He is Success, and I am Love."

Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which
one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her
husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case,
let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner
of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion:
"Would it not be better to invite Love.
Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the
husband to his wife.

"Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of
you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The
other 2 also got up and followed him.

Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited
Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth
or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out,
but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him.

Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!!!"

MY WISH FOR YOU...

Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy.

Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed
confidence in your ability to work through it.

Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you
understanding, patience, and renewed strength.

Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.

You have two choices right now:
1. Click this off
2. Invite love by sharing this story with all the people
you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. I did.

The older I get the smarter I am! "I've learned not to let
my eyes go shopping for my Heart!"

Reflections

I was just sitting at my desk reflecting on what it is that I am constantly searching for in my pursuit of life’s happiness. What rewards do I long for and what path in life do I follow to get there. Then I thought about some of the quotes that I often turn to when I need to lift myself up or find inspiration to accomplish a task that I have taken on. That is when I realized that I already have the rewards that I am looking for in life and that is the Love that I get from my wife, family, and friends, and yes the Lord and Savior. All other things in life that I seek are just material things that I really do not need but rather just desire to have. Take a few minutes to read through the following famous quotes and see if they inspire you too.

Quote of the Day: "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to." -- Greg Anderson

Quote of the Day: "It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity." -- Horace


Quote of the Day: "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace

Quote of the Day: "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." -- Horace

Quote of the Day: "Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time." -- Dale Dauten

Quote of the Day: "Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse." -- Dale Dauten


Quote of the Day: "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory." -- Norman Vincent Peale


Quote of the Day: "...if the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent." -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quote of the Day: "Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated." -- Thomas Moore

Quote of the Day: "The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." -- Norman Vincent Peale

Quote of the Day: "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." -- William Penn

Quote of the Day: "When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor." -- Norman Vincent Peale

Finally the one that I find most inspiring in the search to improve my own life and my pursuit of the right path of life to follow is found in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson;

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us”---Ralph Waldo Emerson on Perseverance.

Have A Great Life!!
Roy J. Keller

Then and Now !!

The following post is a post that I happen to read at one of the Forums that I visit and post to everyday and it brought back so many memories that I thought that I would copy & paste it here for all my readers to relate. Since I was born in 1951 this really had me remembering my early childhood here in Ohio during the fifties and early sixties. Oh, to have those simpler days again. This little village has not really changed that much on the surface but the story below does indeed reflect our world today. Enjoy and as it says at the end feel free to share it with others or just direct them here to read it for themselves. Have a grand day……Roy J. Keller;

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and Early-ish 80's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given cowboy guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

The town football club had tryout for the junior team and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!