Life is full of . . . everything. Tragedies happen in the blink of an eye. We lose children. We lose parents. We lose spouses. We lose siblings. We lose friends. It is all part of life. Tragic, yes. Insurmountable? I don't think so.
Life is full of . . . joy. The simple things, like going to the movies with your husband. Playing games with your kids. Enjoying some wonderful music. A dinner out with friends. Sewing in your sewing room.
Life is also full of . . . choices. I can choose to be ruled by the terrible tragedies that accompany one living life to the fullest, or I can choose to ignore them and live only in the moment. There has to be some sort of balance in the middle. You have to temper your sadness with joy. In that way we find true happiness. The lows are low, but they make the highs even better.
Been thinking about choices today so this is very fitting. In church this morning something quiet simple hit me, but just got through my head. I can make the choice to change, but I have to make the choices to change with purposeful and on purpose choices or nothing will ever change.
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