Good morning. What a
beautiful day in paradise. Sunshine and blue skies. The rain is
gone and the sunshine is tempting everyone to come outside and see a new
world! Today is a remembrance of an old
lesson I learn over and over and it always seems new, each time.
Don’t you just love a brand, spanking, new opportunity? I do, even when I am sad or disgusted with
the reason I had to seek the opportunity to begin with. Sometimes we don’t need to be reminded of the
old lesson we are learning new again. My
father borrowed a phrase somewhere, and I always give him credit for it since
he imparted it to me.
“Life would be easy if it was a straight highway from birth
to heaven, but it isn’t. There are
always detours.”
Some of them are forced detours and the only thing we can do
is take the detour and make the absolute best of it. Others we bring on ourselves, knowing that
they could end very badly, we still choose the detour. If we can think of these as presentations on
a stage of life that present a brand, spanking, new opportunity, then we can accept the challenge
and pray and think, seek advice, even cry, well complain, yeah-complain, and we
work it all out. Look at all of the
things that brought us to a solution for getting us back on the highway, since
that is the object.
We complain about the drudgery of the highway until we have
to detour! Wow! I am singing blue skies by the time I am back
on that highway! The washing was good
for us and we stand a little taller,
show a little more gratitude, see more good around us, and thank God and
all of those ears, eyes, and hearts involved in our detour.
Today I am on detour but I refuse to take it lying down and
I refuse to see it as a negative. I know
some of you call me the ultimate optimist, and I may be, but life is too good
to look at the pain for very long.
Embrace it and then cry, complain, or whatever it takes to get back to
that highway. Before you realize you
were gone you will be back up there. Sunshine and blue skies!
Have a beautiful day!
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