Good Friends

My friends and neighbors, the Burdens came over yesterday and did some yardwork for me. Greg had asked me at church on Sunday if they could come by and I agreed. It was dark when I arrived home so I couldn't see all that they had done, but the front lawn was mowed and there were several bags of trash as well as a couple of trash cans out at the curb.


A before shot of the front yard

I could have done all this myself, but I'd had months to get to it and didn't so I'm grateful for the love and service they gave me. They are good and wonderful people.


An Aftershot

What's in Your Backpack?

I watched a talk John Bytheway gave to an assembly of High School Students today. Among many things he spoke about were five things we can do to get through life better. We can't change the trail but we can lighten our backpacks so the journey isn't as hard.

1. Best way to get the weight our of your backpack is to help others get the weight out of theirs.


2. Spend time with your family and loved ones - nothing else gives us more regret than lost time with family


3. Popularity only lasts till yearbook day - respect lasts a lifetime


4. Focus on what you can give - instead of what you can get.


5. Don't do things that will kill you.

Good advice for us all.