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Old 02-24-2014, 10:06 AM   #1
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Monday, February 24, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett

The truck was in mud to its axles. Three lumberjacks sat in stony silence in the cab. There they were, stuck in the woods on their way to the cutting site. The first man slammed the steering wheel, cursed, and stormed out of the truck. The second thought the early morning woods inviting and said he'd just crawl under a pine to nap until someone came along to pull them out. The third man, left alone, grabbed an axe and a saw and set about cutting wood to slide under the wheels. Within an hour he managed to pull the truck out of its muddy bath and they got on their way.

We can choose how we respond to an obstacle. As with the three men, our response may be to curse and give up, to sit back and wait for someone else to help us, or to set to work fearlessly to try to overcome it ourselves. The event itself isn't important; how we think about it is.

Is there an obstacle in my way today?
Found that a lot of my obstacles were mental, although because of my five types of arthritis, it is often physical. I work daily at not allowing my pain rule my life.

When I say I can't, there is a good chance that I won't!
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