Be Happy: Live One Day At A Time
Fred Lowery
The doctor !Aaid to his patient ''I've got some bad news, and some really bad news for you''. The bad news is that you only have 24 hours to live, and the really bad news is that I was supposed to have told you yesterday.''
What is you had 24, hours to live? Would life be different for you? Would all of a sudden things that didn't matter, begin to matter? Would priorities change?
Yet, this book teaches that we are to live on a daily basis. We were in Juneau, Alaska a couple of weeks ago. Jerry and Phyllis and Leigh and I went hiking up in the mountains. And on our hike we found some abandoned gold mines way up there in a beautiful setting. It was misting rain, and we found this cottage and who walks out that door was Elvis Presley! That's enough to make those old ladies drop their knitting! :No, we didn't see Elvis Presley - he's dead! But I wanted your attention. To tell you about something I read about Elvis Presley. He said to a bell hop one day at the Las Vegas Hilton ''I would give a hundred thou'sand dollars to be a bell hop for one day.'' The bell hop couldn't believe it. 1 don't understand why you wouic[ wanll to bL- a beil hop for ont-- day! He said ''To be able to walk around in the lobby and just talk to people and go to the coffee shop and get a hamburger. I would give anything in the world to be able to do that. 11
You see here was a man who had it all and yet we know that he lived his life basically unfuifilled and unhappy because he was not able to experience the ordinary, the simple pleasures of life.
Abraham Maslow, the psychologist, had a near fatal heart attack and he recovered from that attack but it literally changed his life :in the process. F,e-om that point on he called it his post-mortem life. And everything was Page Two different. Everything was doubly precious, he said. You get stabbed by the very thought of being, of talking, of eating, of having friends. You see what this ps ...
Fred Lowery
The doctor !Aaid to his patient ''I've got some bad news, and some really bad news for you''. The bad news is that you only have 24 hours to live, and the really bad news is that I was supposed to have told you yesterday.''
What is you had 24, hours to live? Would life be different for you? Would all of a sudden things that didn't matter, begin to matter? Would priorities change?
Yet, this book teaches that we are to live on a daily basis. We were in Juneau, Alaska a couple of weeks ago. Jerry and Phyllis and Leigh and I went hiking up in the mountains. And on our hike we found some abandoned gold mines way up there in a beautiful setting. It was misting rain, and we found this cottage and who walks out that door was Elvis Presley! That's enough to make those old ladies drop their knitting! :No, we didn't see Elvis Presley - he's dead! But I wanted your attention. To tell you about something I read about Elvis Presley. He said to a bell hop one day at the Las Vegas Hilton ''I would give a hundred thou'sand dollars to be a bell hop for one day.'' The bell hop couldn't believe it. 1 don't understand why you wouic[ wanll to bL- a beil hop for ont-- day! He said ''To be able to walk around in the lobby and just talk to people and go to the coffee shop and get a hamburger. I would give anything in the world to be able to do that. 11
You see here was a man who had it all and yet we know that he lived his life basically unfuifilled and unhappy because he was not able to experience the ordinary, the simple pleasures of life.
Abraham Maslow, the psychologist, had a near fatal heart attack and he recovered from that attack but it literally changed his life :in the process. F,e-om that point on he called it his post-mortem life. And everything was Page Two different. Everything was doubly precious, he said. You get stabbed by the very thought of being, of talking, of eating, of having friends. You see what this ps ...
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