Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell The Chinese Cookie We celebrated New Year's Day by going to a Chinese restaurant. I don't usually eat the fortune cookie but I do break it open for the message. Mine said, "Today is a lucky day for those who remain cheerful and optimistic." Might I add that any day is a great day for people who are cheerful and optimistic. Pretty much the same things happen to everyone during the course of a life and whether or not we have a good life or a rotten life depends very much upon our attitude. We can put a positive or negative spin on most everything. Unlike the grave marker that read, "See, I told you so!" we can come to the end of the road with our cup full and running over. Solomon wrote, "A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. . . .All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast." Proverbs 15:13, 15. Don't you love the imagery of the continual feast? Actually most of us are on a continual diet but that indicates we live in extremely abundant land. Now we don't want to pretend that bad things don't happen. Sure they do. If we live long enough, we can and will suffer major losses. It is inevitable. The end result of those losses is up to us. It is even up to us if we live forever or not. God presents the gift and we get to choose whether or not to accept. I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is roger.bothwell@verizon.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives