attitude is everything.

"Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's freedom in any given set of circumstances." 

- Viktor Frankl, Nazi holocaust survivor

Dang!  I mean, I read In a Pit with a Lion ... a year ago ... how is it that is continues to rock my little world?  But it is.  I have the freedom to CHOOSE ...
to choose to be joyful in the midst of trials
to choose to be thankful
to choose to worship instead of complain
to choose to love
to choose to be selfless instead of selfish
to choose to live instead of worry
to choose to be FREE instead of in bondage.

I have the freedom to choose.  I have the freedom to choose on what I will focus today.  The clouds or the sun.  The empty or the full.  The busy or the important.  The future or the now.

Your focus determines your reality.

And my focus for today is on the now.  And in that were many sweet gifts ...

231. going home before dark and enjoying a good long workout

232. making cookies and cream cupcakes for the dinner theater cast

233. hanging out with an awesome freshman

234. an unexpected trip to Yoforia with Emmy and sitting outside

235. basketball tickets for next week's game

236. getting fun items for silent auction and reliving sweet memories of where they came from

237. texting Callie ... and pretending triathlons MIGHT just be my next adventure!

238. Addie saying how much she enjoyed thinking about her passions last night!

239. having a pastor who calls me way too much! 

240. praying for Callie R. as she met the newborn daughter that someone loves enough to share with her family

241. the herbs growing on my kitchen table

242. mini oreos

243. having a day when I come home and think, "I love my job ..."