CHAPTER 8. PAGE 6

How often we wish for another chance

to make a fresh beginning.

A chance to blot out our mistakes

And change failure into winning.

It does not take a new day

To make a brand new start,

It only takes a deep desire

To try with all our heart.

To live a little better

And to always be forgiving

And to add a little sunshine

To the world in which we're living.

So never give up in despair

And think that you are through,

For there's always a tomorrow

And the hope of starting new.

Helen Steiner Rice

GOOD MORNING !

Monday is here already and I’m ready to start a new week and I do hope you are too! I think it’ll be another busy busy one for sure and a hot one too !

Sunday brought a little cooler weather and cloudy skies here. The week ahead is supposed to be a bit tropical though, rain and hot weather is coming our way. One thing we can always count on – the weather will be with us for sure.

Cloudy days or sunny days can be a JOY if we choose to make them one. I’ve found that I am dependant on the sunshine. In the winter I’m like a hibernating old bear. I just want to go to bed and sleep. In the summer I find myself rejuvenated and alive. So I really have to work at choosing Joy and the ‘bright’ side of things on cloudy days.

  THOUGHT FOR TODAY

ALWAYS A SUNRISE

Look out, look in. Every day has a sunrise.

Wherever you are, like a magic circle,

the world is all around you.

Everything has a purpose.

Every action a reaction.

All around you there are happenings.

People, places and ideas,

all offering you opportunities.

Some to be touched and changed

by the very nature of your uniqueness.

Others to be left alone

for they are not worthy of you.

Life is a love affair.

Love the people around you,

love what you do.

Every day dawns with a sunrise.

Always, high days and low days.

Blue skies of pleasure, there to enjoy.

Celebrate.

Dark clouds of storminghurt,

however black, they always pass.

Today was yesterday’s tomorrow;

yesterday is gone. History.

And the wonder of yesterday

is whatever we didn’t like is behind us.

Make a change. Unlimited you.

Greatness from within.

There is no such thing as failure,

only learning experiences.

Some things are easy to learn, others hard.

What is easy for one may be hard for another.

Lessons to be learned, not burdens to be carried.

Everyone is different. Everyone is special.

We are all creative. We are all tool makers.

Greatness and humility. Both are you.

Leader and follower. Warrior and water carrier.

Teacher and student. Champion and cheerleader.

Who is to say? One day you are one,

the next day you are the other.

Pace setters tread the untrodden path.

Never given away your sunrise day

of action to an excuse. 'When the time is right.'

'When I feel like it.' 'When I've enough money.'

Sometimes it’s too easy to justify not taking action.

Sometimes you have to say 'no' to your inner voice ...

when it tries to keep you

too comfortably where you're at. Always a new light.

Always a new day. Each day a gift of opportunity.

There is always a sunrise

even when it is far from our view.

There is always a door. We simply have to seek.

There is always a key. We simply have to persist.

And, sometimes, we just have to wait a while.

Patience does have virtue. There is always a future.

The future is hope and the magic is faith.

It begins with you today.

Today a new day. Always.

Today our decision to be the person

we really want to be.

Today our choice of courage to accept

what we cannot change.

Today our choice to rise to the challenge

 of changing what we must.

These are the choices of happiness.

Always an answer. You simply have to believe.

The dawn. The magic of a new day given to us.

A love affair. A love affair with today.

Today, a gift of opportunity; to laugh;

to learn; to achieve; to make someone happy,

to be happy. Always a sunrise.

By Rex Barker

  May your day be blessed with a few SMILES and lots of SUNSHINE to warm your heart !

MA

 

 

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