Yesterday brought plenty of bad news, adding to some negative news from a few days before. I must seriously consider my future options and perhaps start to plan yet another escape from life as I know it.
The photo above was taken on my way home from a medical appointment on Monday. It’s a reminder of the beauty that surrounds me every day. I don’t have to travel anywhere to find it….I just have to slow down, open my eyes and take time to see it.
This Rhododendron in my back yard is like a secret treasure that only a few people know about. Another reminder of peaceful beauty right under my nose.
When bad news hits like a ton of bricks it so difficult to focus on the treasures that surround me everyday. My mind goes immediately to “woe is me”, forgetting all the blessings that are mine.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; taking this world as it is and not as I would have it….
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Reflections 
Slowing down and seeing the beauty right before our eyes is something I am focused on a lot lately. There are times when I have to get creative with that but there’s always beauty in the bigger things like sunrises and sunsets but even in the simplest things like a lady bug landing on me.
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