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One of the great paradoxes of life is that the young are always wishing they were just a little older and the old are usually wishing they were a whole lot younger.

The great secret of life is to be happy where you are in the process doing the best you can with what you have.  It is common to think that the grass is always greener on the other side.  Your job is to face whatever challenges that may be in front of you right now (today) and do whatever you can to make them right.  If you are facing a challenge today what makes you think that it will be easier to overcome or deal with tomorrow?  Don’t fret about the past or be to consumed with the future, but live now.  I recently read a story about a minister who was having a difficult time going to sleep because he was so worried about the future and the condition of the world.  God said to him, “Go to sleep bishop.  I will stay up and watch over things.”  If you do your best today trust that things will work out.  Everything is going to be okay when all the dust settles.  Face the truth, be responsible, smile and keep moving forward.

Consider the following:  “Rock of Ages,” one of the most popular Christian hymns, was composed under unusual circumstance.   In 1775, Augustus Toplady took shelter from a storm in a cleft of a large rock at Barrington Coombe in Somerset, England, and while waiting for the rain to stop, wrote this famous song on the only piece of paper he could find – a playing card. Just doing the best you can where you are at with what you’ve got may make more of a difference in the world than you think.

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“People may wonder why anybody would want to run a distance race. What fun is it? Why all the hard, exhausting work? Where does it get you? It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men.”
-Brutus Hamilton

Remember in your daily journey that there is a huge difference between instant gratification and lasting peace. Someone once said that the hallmark of emotional intelligence is the ability to delay instant gratification. Accept what you cannot control and discipline yourself to manage what you can. Triggers mean nothing – it is what you choose to do with them that matters. Lean into the wind and move forward.

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