Doris Janzen Longacre. Life is too short.

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Doris kept a list of things she felt were the frivolities of life—things one should not let get in the way of the enjoyment of living.

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


Life is 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.


Life is too short for nosy questions like "How do you like your new pastor?" Or—if there’s been a death—"How is he taking it?"


Life is too short to be gone from home more than a few nights a week.


Life is too short not to take a nap when you need one.


Life is too short to care whether purses match shoes or towels match bathrooms.


Life is 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 a Sunday morning.


Life is 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.


Life is too short to put off improving our relationships with the people we live with.
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