Things That Life Is Too Short For

© Doris Longacre

• Life is too short to ice cakes. Cakes are good without icing.

• Life is too short to read all the church periodicals.

• Life is too short not to write regularly to your parents.

• Life is too short to eat factory baked bread.

• Life is too short to keep all your floors shiny.

• Life is too short to let a day pass without hugging your spouse and each of your children.

• Life is too short to nurse grudges and hurt feelings.

• It's too short to worry about getting ready for Christmas. Just let Christmas come.

• Life is too short to spend much money on neckties and earrings.

• It's too short for nosey questions like, "How do you like your new pastor?" or if there's been a death, "How is he taking it?"

• It's too short to be gone from home more than a few nights a week.

• It's too short not to take a nap when you need one.

• It's too short to give importance to whether purses match shoes or towels match bathrooms.

• It's too short to stay indoors when the trees turn color in fall, when it snows or when the spring blossoms come out.

• Life is too short to miss the call to worship on Sunday morning.

• It's too short for bedspreads that are too fancy to sleep under.

• Life is too short to work in a room without windows.

• Life is too short to put off Bible study.

• It's too short to put off improving our relationships with the people that we live with.