Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Come On Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington,

published in 1923.

Nobody who drives a car

enjoys seeing the sign detour,

for it means the long and hard way. For some reason, the straight

smooth road has been closed, and we are asked to go out of our way and endure the consequences.

The person who lives in overly emotional life is constantly making detours, going the hard, difficult roundabout

way.

The people who end the day with the expression, I am so weary, are generally emotional people.

They do no great work, but allow their energy to leak away in needless

emotions. A person may rise from bed in the morning, feeling refreshed, with 100% energy,

but then they need to decide what they are going to do with that energy.

They can't keep drawing from their battery and still have the same amount of power.

Or to put it another way, you can't go shopping with $100 in your wallet,

spend $10 in nine different stores, and expect to have $100 left at the close

of the day.

Yet this is what many people do expect, however illogical and unreasonable it may sound.

Nobody can go on wasting energy and emotional drama and still have it for constructive

work. Instead of speaking and doing things from the I am center of all energy, may make detours,

going by way of small towns with rough roads.

A few of these towns may include fear, worry, indecision, anger, hate, doubt.

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