than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do
certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
~Stephen Covey
Indeed we make decisions every day don't we?
We decide if we want to eat breakfast or not?
Eat healthy or not.
Drive the speed limit or not.
Go to work on time or arrive late.
Sure we all have decisions and sometimes they are easy and sometimes not so easy. Its even to get lost in the process and stutter step and decide not to choose one way or the other. We freeze up at times. Maybe its fear or maybe we worry about the path we choose.
Imagine standing at the edge of forever, the sun setting ahead and wondering if you chose well in life. A very sad stand wouldn't you say?
A friend once told me how many summers do you really have left in life?
Wow, put that, how many summers are we even promised in life.
But to put in another way to have a door open and decide not to at least look and investigate, pray and meditate, how many doors do we let slam with out really taking a closer look.
Asking better question and your answers will indeed be much better because of it.
But we must decide, we must get off the fence and step forward.
I also heard it once stated that we are either growing in life, in our faith or we are dying.
That is a fact. I often wonder if we all would not be happier if we decided to accept one another, not agree with everything but just accept.
What if we tolerated and lived our life with a smile, with joy and with laughter and we had our value but we refused to be baited into a war of words, or a war of hate.
What if? Hmmmm....
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Some events to think about on this day
1862 – Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 30 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting at a US military installation.
2011 - My 1,000 post shared with you the reader on http://smileonline.gather.com/
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Lord, thank you for another day to enjoy the world you created. Thank you for those things that make me smile, help me laugh and give me hope in man kind.
Help me to make better decisions but also help me to choose with discernement and patience.
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