Wow, the weather has been AMAZING recently! I love it – 70 degree weather in March in Iowa is a blessing indeed. I love running around barefoot outside and wearing short sleeves and no jacket. There are beautiful flowers blooming outside my house and the smell of freshly cut grass. I can’t help but look up the sky in thankfulness to the heavens for it all.
I feel like as people we have a habit of at times focusing on the negative aspects of life, the things not going right – instead of reveling and enjoying the things that are going well. It is common knowledge that we should focus on the positive but it seems to go against human nature. We want to find problems so we can fix them which in itself is just fine, actually a good thing. Where it gets to be an issue is when we do our best to fix it and then obsess and get angry over it if it is one of those things we just can’t control. Get over it and move on to living the rest of your life. We are much too busy and valuable to concern ourselves with what we cannot do. Instead, let us focus on what we can do – and go do it! I am sure if you sit and think for five minutes you will be shocked at all of the things you have to be thankful for. The body has 650 muscles and 206 bones! That is extraordinary in itself. We as humans are wonderfully made.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
I am going to continue to look at the little, good things and learn to appreciate life one day at a time:
· I want to learn from yesterday’s mistakes, as the past brings about wisdom.
· I want to live in today, giving everything I can to each and every day and not wasting a moment’s precious time.
· I want to look forward to the future and what it holds for me.
I love the everyday and the precious gift of life and I aim to live it to the fullest and appreciate it as it comes. My challenge to you is to do the same – live in an attitude of thankfulness and peacefulness, and do not waste what you are blessed with.
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. Logan Pearsall Smith
~ Let us live in a spirit of thankful, happy, energy that comes from being ok with not knowing what the future holds but ready to face each day as it comes and live life to the absolute fullest.~
