How To Live All Day Long

How do you live all day long? It isn't easy is it? There are times when a person despairs...when he cries out, "My God, My God...why?"

A despondent man went to an old sage. He said to the wise man that he wanted to be released from life, because it was too hard. The sage picked up some herbs of healing that he had...gave them to the man and said: "Go find 7 persons to whom you can give this herb. After you have helped them, return to me, and I will give you release from life."

The story goes that the man did so, but by the time he had returned, he no longer wanted release. He wanted to live. In the healing of others, he himself had been healed!

A doctor announced that he was a "Cure‑for‑the‑Blues‑Specialist". When a person came to his office, he gave him a card with the formula: "When you feel yourself getting blue, something for somebody else go do." It wasn't great poetry, but it was a good philosophy.

There is seldom a day goes by, without some pain or hardship for you to bear. But, if it is true of you, just remember, that it is happening to everyone else too.

When you see your own problems, and cry your own tears, and feel your own pain, the day is hard indeed. But if you help to carry the load of others, somehow your own becomes a bit easier to bear.

Someone has defined "sympathy" as: "your pain in my heart!" The Psalmist reminds us that there is One who is forever sharing our burdens. "Blessed be God, who daily bears us up." (Ps. 68:19) God takes our pain in his heart. He bears us up. The apostle Paul says: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." (II Cor. 1:3)

Awhile ago, an Alka‑seltzer commercial had a man saying, "I can't believe I ate the who‑o‑o‑le thing!" If we live each day with the comfort and under‑girding of the Almighty, we will be able to live the who‑o‑o‑o‑le day, and do it well.