This morning as I read my blogs and article feeds from so many amazing sources, I was noticing a common thread about “Choosing and the Past”.

The photograph above is of a maple tree in my yard just after a thunderstorm passed and the sun was embracing the raindrops on her leaves.

I was looking for a rainbow which never appeared, yet I still felt the thankfulness that the storm had brought us some much needed rain, as well as the enthusiasm to embrace the freshly charged air and newness that a clearing storm can bring.

Here in the order of their presentation to me are the quotes which inspired and to which I add my own…

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – Henry David Thoreau

“First-hand experience is living from our true self, where you direct your life from within, and find love, beauty, and joy in every experience you have.” – Deepak Chopra

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung

“Choice is the ability to move through all perceptions of the past so as to become new once again in the now.” – Charlie Riverman Bergeron

Have a Blessed Day and Choose Wisely

Once again we awaken around the world to the news of innocent people who have been killed or injured by acts of insanity.
This picture and the words I wrote in 2012 appeared and I saved it on my desktop not knowing how deep I would feel this today.
So today please look at the cloudiness in your lives
Please know that it is temporary
Please know that sanity is just behind those clouds
And it will return
And the world we live in will be once again changed from misunderstanding to clarity of purpose.