Refresh

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."... Mary Pickford

Each day is a new beginning; the simple act of awakening is in itself a gentle rebirth, but a deliberate refresh doesn't need dawn to begin its illumination. We can choose place and time, or something may inspire a hard look at reality without the aid of our rose colored glasses. Auto refresh begins while we're still blinking from the shock of suddenly getting a clue. At our initial awakening and at every other dawning of understanding it's important to tell God that we see the issue and truly, "get" its real value in our own personal growth.  
 
Mistakes are only permanent if we keep on making them. At some point the punishment should convince us that repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome is a fools idea of reality. The lesson gets learned eventually by most of us, and once we admit that there are lessons in all things we look for them much sooner. Each issue has its own plain as day solution and every problem will periodically reappear until we're able to do the math... admit our role in its cause and effect... then add it to our own personal no fly list. The next time we see it it's no big issue to avoid getting all hung up and beat down by the crime and punishment it offers. And when it gets tired of being dismissed it'll try to peddle its damage elsewhere.  Learn... test... graduate... move on!!!!

Falling down is certain, getting up is optional. When you hit hard it helps to remember that staying down means they win... whoever they are... they have the last laugh. The notion that I'm expected to remain prone is enough fuel to get me upright. There is no ease to be found while laying helpless upon the ground. Life may seem like a burden sometimes, but we too often continue carrying heavy baggage that was only meant for instructional purposes. We're meant to learn from it then set it down... lighter in spirit... wiser in mind. Why don't you... think about it... let it ride... then decide???