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A COLD AND RAINY DAY (A LIFE LESSON)

Today is cold and rainy where I live. It is the perfect day to stay home, curl up with coffee or tea, a favorite book or the Bible, along with a journal... and just be.

But, I want to be outside. I want to be doing things. I really need to walk. I really want to enjoy the sunshine. It is cold. I want it to be spring.

I can focus on the fact that it is cold. Or that the sun is not out. That things just are not what they should be. That there are clouds.

Or... I can focus on what I can control: my reaction to the cold, rainy day. I can choose to take something bad and look at the blessing and the good instead.

I can focus on the fact that this is making me stay close to home so I can either relax, do the things I need to do (and could be putting off), I can have some more one on one time with my husband and critters, and some time to go move more slowly. I do not need to be in a rush.

Today is a lot like life. I can focus on the bad or I can focus on the blessing.

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