Jul
13
2021
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you will find you have nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you but I like to make today worth remembering." - Harold Hill from The Music Man
Two of...
Jul
12
2021
This is the ultimate difference between contentment and discontentment.
Contentment is living in abundance.
Discontentment is living in scarcity.
Contentment is living in - "enough is enough.”
Discontentment is living in - "it is never enough.”
Contentment is - "I have everything I...
Jul
09
2021
Yes, Fred Crowell loves to drive a car! And the better the car, the better I love driving! And how fun it is to drive on a multi-lane highway!Yet the older I am, hopefully, the wiser I become. My advice...
Jul
08
2021
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be." This is what Abe Lincoln felt.
For some, happiness is a common occurrence. For others, it is like a sunny day in a land of cloudy skies,...
Jul
07
2021
One of the great gifts of life is that of choice. Everyone can choose whether they live natural, meaning normal or ordinary, or supernatural, meaning transcendental or superordinary.
Some people are born with such incredible gifts that it seems those gifts are...
Jul
06
2021
Imagine making a blanket guarantee that all things, meaning everything in your life, will work out for good! Consider this life guarantee written by St. Paul who was beheaded at the end of his life: All things will work out for...
Jul
05
2021
It was a fateful Christmas Eve in 1776. General George Washington, also Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, led his men across the Delaware, marching 13 hours to route the cruelest British army. This was in New Jersey with the surprise...
Jul
04
2021
"This land is your land, this land is my land. From California to New York Island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters. This land was made for you and me."
I am so glad men fought for...
Jun
30
2021
Years ago, Henry David Thoreau said: "The mass of men live lives of QUIET desperation." Yet today, I (meaning Fred Crowell) say: "Most people live lives of ACTIVE desperation." Why?
Comfort in silence is a foreign concept to most Americans. Our pace of life...
Jun
29
2021
“Once we admit life is hard, it is no longer difficult.” – Scott Peck
It baffles me when people; notably Fred Crowell, think we deserve an easy life. Somehow the tendency is to believe if we are a good person...
