Friday, May 14, 2010

Nine Essentials for Contented Living

Health enough to make work a pleasure.

Wealth enough to support your needs.

Strength enough to battle difficulties and overcome them.

Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.

Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.

Clarity enough to see some good in your neighbor.

Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.

Faith enough to make real the things of God.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears confronting the future.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)