Making the Days of Your Life Great

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Self-improvement

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Listen to episode 876 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Days of Our Life Great. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk. And, by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness, we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm or cold, wet or dry. Thus the tree writes in itself the history of its life and the record of all passing seasons.

To an eye that sees all things as they are, each person’s inner being must contain the stored-up results of all the ......

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0:45.3	Today's reading was edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Aes, published in 1895.
1:00.0	The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk.
1:09.0	And by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness,
1:14.1	we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm or cold, wet or dry. Thus the tree
1:23.1	writes in itself the history of its life and the record of all passing seasons.
1:30.3	To an eye that sees all things as they are, each person's inner being must contain
1:37.3	the stored up results of all their choices, all the forces and principles that have affected their mind and heart.
1:47.0	We number our days as the tree its years.
1:51.0	They make of us what we are and what we are to be.
1:56.0	Indeed, what we call our character is simply the sum of inward effects produced by thought,
2:04.2	feeling and action.
2:07.4	Worldly matters do not stand with any of us as they did a year ago.
2:12.8	Our life has grown richer or poorer, deeper or shallower, we are better or worse, more under the
2:21.3	rule of the truth and the right, or less so.
2:25.8	The divine voice that calls us upward sounds nearer and clear, or farther off and fainter,
2:37.2	according to how we have he or neglected its invitations.
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