I copied this from my journal which I wrote Dec. 9, 2020, and I feel that I need to share it with others.
Today is day 269 since my wife and I started hunkering down in our apartment due to COVID-19 at Gov. Carney’s orders for our own good.
So far this year, thousands in the U.S. have died of it, and I would estimate that millions have died around the world, but there are no real numbers we can trust.
Anyway, my wife and I have each other and play games and watch movies to keep ourselves occupied.
Right now we are watching live footage of Starship SN8 test flight to 12 kilometers and return to land. At four minutes til launch we are talking to our son on the phone, also and watching together. They put it on hold and cancelled the launch until tomorrow. Bummer.
Dec. 10:
The rocket fired; it did everything they said it would do, but it landed too hard and exploded, but it was still a success for we learn so much from failure than we ever would by success.
When we fail at something, we look at that failure and think, what could I have done just a little bit different to have made it a success. That is the way we should look at everyday life itself.
God gave us everything we need to get through this life on earth just the way He wants us to.
I believe that we are expecting more out of this life - prosperity, love, happiness - God’s blessings, and most of us don’t even know that God gave us just that.
It may not be on the grand scale that we may imagine, but we are all given the same things from God - a heart that loves, a soul that keeps us whole, and His spirit that is in us all, and yet few of us listen to it.
All we have to do in this life is to love one another, help one another, care for and respect one another, treat others as if they are better than us and we are their servants, for that is what God put us on earth to do.
“It’s time for change, for eternity is too long to be wrong...” Just sayin’.
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