Things I've Learned (nothing original)

• You can't change people. I mean, really, you can't. 
• You can only change yourself. 
• If you don't like something about your life, you can change it. 
• Unforgiveness is not worth the price, including when you don't forgive yourself. 
• God typically asks us to wait far longer than we would choose. 
• If given a choice, I don't believe we would choose to wait on anything. 
• God's end result is always very different and so much better than what we would have come up with. 
• Being 30 something is so much better than being 20 something. 
• You have to show your friends a lot of grace, and they have to show you a lot in return. 
• People are always more important than power or money or process or plans or programs or agendas. 
• Everyone has baggage from their past; some have learned to deal with it and put it in its proper place, others are still controlled everyday by it. 
• The more stuff we have, the more we worry about it. 
• The best things in life are really the things you can't buy with money. 
• Life this side of eternity is fragile at best and necessitates clinging onto Something bigger than you are. 

Melrose Abbey