When you’ve made you plans and they’ve gone awry
When you’ve tried your best and there’s no more try
When you’ve failed yourself and you don’t know why
Start Over.

When you’ve told your friends what you plan to do
When you’ve trusted them and they didn’t come through
And you’re all alone and its’ up to you
Start Over.

When you’ve failed your kids and they’re grown and gone
When you’ve done your best but it has turned out wrong
And your grandchildren come along
Start Over.

When you’ve prayed to God so you’ll know His will
When you’ve prayed and prayed and don’t know still
When you want to stop cause you’ve had your fill
Start Over.

When you think you’re finished and want to quit
When you bottomed out in life’s deepest pit
When you’ve tried and tried to get out of it
Start Over.

When the year has been long and successes few
When December comes and you’re feeling blue
God gives a January just for you
Start Over.

Starting over means “Victories Won”
Starting over means “A Race Well Run”
Starting over means “God’s Will Done”
Don’t just sit there
Start Over.

These narrow gates:
First, “Is it true??”
Then, “Is it needful??”
In your mind give truthful answer.
And the next is last and narrowest, “Is it Kind??”

And if to reach your lips at last
It passess through these gateways three,
Then you may tell the tale, nor fear
What the result of speech may be.

I wanted wealth for happiness and ease,
But poverty prevailed and made me wise.
I wanted power to conquer and to please,
But weakness made me see through other’s eyes.
I wanted leisure time to dream and plan,
But duty brought self-discipline and while
I sought approval of my fellowman,
I found it not, but in my savior’s smile.
And now that I have been richly blest,
This is my daily prayer, “Give what is best”

Let your heart grow empty of every thought unkind
That peace may hover round you, and joy may fill your mind.
Count up all your blessings, I’m sure they are not few,
That the dear lord daily just bestows on you.

Soon you’ll feel so rested, glad you stopped a bit,
In this quiet corner, to fold your hands and sit.

Be glad for work that’s difficult,
For tasks that challenge you!
Workers find a thousand blessings
The idle never knew.

I wanted wealth for happiness and ease,
But poverty prevailed and made me wise.
I wanted power to conquer and please,
But the weakness made me see through other’s eyes.

I wanted leisure time to dream and plan,
But duty brought self-discipline and while
I sought approval of my fellowman,
I found it not, but in my Savior’s smile.
And now that I have been so richly blest,
This is my daily prayer. “Give what is best”

A little less care fore bonds and gold,
A little more zeal for the days of old;
A broader view and saner mind,
And a little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring down the way
That leads to the gates of better day.

A little more love for the friends of youth,
A little more zeal for establish truth,
A little more charity for the daily news;
And so we are folding our tents away
And passing in silence at close of day.

A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen,
A little nearer to those ahead,
With vision of those long loved and dead;
And so we are going where all must go-
To the place the living may never know.

A little more laughter, a few more tears,
And we shall have told our increasing years.
The book is closed and the prayers are said,
And we are the part of the countless dead;
Thrice happy, then, if some soul can say,
“I live because of their help on the way”

He needs to feel the trail of mirth,
To sense the beauty of the earth,
To know the joy that kindness brings
And all the worth of little things.
He needs to have an open mind,
A friendly heart for all mankind.

A trust in self – without conceit –
And strength to rise above defeat.
He needs to have the will to share,
A mind to dream, a soul to dare,

A purpose firm, a pot to plod,
A faith in man, a trust in god.

Why did the whole world seem to smile?
Because I laughed with is awhile,
Why was all earth so bright with sun?
Because my light heart gave it one.

What made the future seem to bright,
The pass seem dear, the future right?
What was it set the day apart?
The peace of god within my heart.

Since then when life looks dark and grim,
My assets small, my prospects dim,
I push dark thoughts back on the shelf,
And seek for the heaven in myself.

Lesson in this Poem for me:

Before making a decision, be sure to review it first before you make your decisions..