Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell The Perils of Success Success is fraught with danger. Once on top there are dozens of wannabees gunning for you. If there is limited room at the top that means you have to be knocked off. The exhilaration of success is short lived and must soon be rekindled by yet a higher goal. If one's success was truly outstanding the possibilities of continuing to be outstanding are rare and we spend the rest of our lives trying to once again taste the sweetness of victory. As the years wan, ever so slowly comes the realization that we have peaked. There is nothing greater coming. We fill our walls with the trophies of the past and spend more and more time remembering when. Perhaps it's a good thing we don't know it when we peak. Knowing it is downhill from there would spoil the moment. After one's children are grown most people grow more and more irrelevant as the years pass. Being a grandparent is wonderful but one's level of being needed isn't nearly the same as it was when our children were young. Many vital people die quite soon after retirement because their level of being needed has plunged. I realize this sounds very dismal so I must now add the good news. In Ephesians 2:8 Paul tells us we were created to do good works. We were not created to vegetate in front of a television set. God has a continual list of things He needs done. He recruits and embellishes us with the talents and skills needed to do what He needs accomplished. So everything I said above doesn't have to be true. How grand. 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