The Road Ahead

Road into the mountains
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How do you see the road ahead?

Can We See Our Way Through to Better Times?

Have you ever put on someone’s prescription glasses and suddenly gone dizzy?  Well I would suggest that’s how many of us are looking into the future – with lenses prescribed for the past.  And those glasses are making us feel disoriented.  There’s a mismatch between what we expect/want to see and what we actually see before us now.

So Many Trials & Tribulations

My niece recently wrote on Facebook, “Cancer sucks”.  And even though she hadn’t said it, most of our family thought “uh oh” and accurately assumed the worst – someone else in the family had just been diagnosed with cancer.  Another someone has begun the arduous and prayerful journey of hope and courage, fighting for his life.

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Finding What Fits

Just around the corner
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You know how you feel when everything fits?  When you head out into the world in the right outfit that fits just right?  It’s like you can do anything, you can take on the world.  There’s bounce in your step.  There’s nothing worse for your confidence than clothes that don’t fit.  Spending your day pulling up your pants or digging your pants out of your ass does not help you exude anything you want to exude.

Sometimes, when we go shopping, we are fooled in the store.  Later we find out that the pants stretch too much after wearing them for an hour, or that they bind in a way they didn’t when we tried them on.  So we stick to those clothes that fit right because they make us feel the best about ourselves.  And sometimes we have to take things back to the store to find the one that fits.

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Cup o’ Inspiration

cup with steam swirl

Take a short break and consider the following:

“Inspiring teachers realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we see them.”

Anonymous

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