TheBanyanTree: personal revelations: ten things I have learned

[Sachet]

A cell phone suddenly vibrating in your lap whilst driving can either be 
really alarming or very entertaining.

Speed gardening kinda defeats the purpose of the hobby. It's really 
ooooooookkkkkk if it takes 2 hours to weed one seemingly (misleadingly) 
small section.

Pristine flower beds do not go hand in hand with a puppy who loves to 
dig; be it in the dirt, mulch or brick chips, thereby mixing them all 
together with no hope of ever returning them to their original 
individual spots. Shrugging and grinning are mandatory tricks of the trade.

The more ideas I have, the less time I have to implement them.

God made teenagers, specifically teenage boys, so that we can actually 
start looking forward to experiencing the empty nest syndrome, instead 
of dreading it.

Keeping my heart transparent before myself and Christ is a day to day 
lifelong challenge,  and one with which I struggle because control is 
(after all) *everything* but He's much better at it than I will ever be.

The sandpaper people in my life are the abrasive irritants I need to 
keep me humbly aware that I too am as sandpaper to others, as much as I 
would really, REALLY prefer to be soft velvet always and forever.

Don't start the uber long uber steep trail at the tip-top of the 
mountain, even though the view may be incredible going down, because you 
always have to cLiMb back up to your car and you have no uber strength 
left at that point.

For a free, simple and very effective aerobic workout, change every 
single smoke alarm battery in your home; because no matter how much you 
THINK you are braced for the test screech, it gets you every single damn 
time.

Setting goals and obtaining them is good. Contemplating long-held dreams 
and nudging them into reality is even better.


......Sachet