CHARACTER

"The question, the primary question, it is not about what you do with your life (as important as that may be) but rather something much deeper who do you become while doing it?

It is a question of your character rather than your career."    Steven Chalke

We all have heard of the Nobel Prize.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 and when he turned 29 he was devastated  by the death of his younger brother and four others who were killed in a nitro-glycerine explosion.

After hard and work and study he invented dynamite.  He went on to make a multi-million dollar business.

Later he stopped to reflect on his life, as there was a lot of criticism of what he had done, and now how he wanted to be remembered.  He changed his will to leave 250 million dollars for the creation of the Nobel Foundation to those who have conferred the greatest benefits on mankind.

In a less serious tone Spencer is a bit of a character.  We are learning to figure out what he is backing about.  He barks at the refrigerator to say he is hungry, he barks just to get our attention and has now found he can look out the little window in the front door to watch for us to come home and he e barks when we leave but I hope he does not bark too long.  He is know learning we always come back.

Dad and I worked in the yard cutting and trimming the grass.  It turned out to be a very pleasant warm day.

Today dad drove me to White Rock to visit Joan and her friends in the Care home.  It breaks my heart to see many of the people there so helpless and hopeless.  Joan is overjoyed to see me and I even make her laugh.  I promise not to stay away so long next time.

Carol had left a message about coming for supper but we did not listen to it until we came home.

Spencer goes to the vet at 11 to-morrow and we did to get some food afterward.

It is good at the end of the day to have things to smile about and be grateful for.

We certainly have lots of characters in our family which is great