Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

Some call it Karma

Others claim hard work “pays off”

The uninformed would suggest it is luck

Is it destiny, choices, will, inevitability, privilege, the “secret” (positive thinking) or something beyond comprehension and explanation?

Why does it SEEM that things go well for some people and not so well for others?

I believe:

In the power of prayer

In people

In goodness prevailing

Everything happens for a reason

The truth

The Rolling Stones sang, “you can’t always get what you want…you get what you need.”

I went to the Mayo Clinic today and saw a variety of folks with obvious ailments seeking relief and others who showed no signs of trouble but they spent hours waiting to consult or were seeking answers to what ailed them…and it gave me pause.

Not everyone has a choice of how they reached the point they are at right now. Others made clear choices to arrive where they are today, whether obvious at the time or not, they cannot deny the correlation between choice and current state.

Whether illness, abnormality, laziness, or a combination…we all wake up and deal with the consequences daily.

Life happens and you can shake your fist at the sky or accept that you are not in control of what happens to you. Rather, you can adjust your attitude to the circumstance and

•make the best of it

•learn from it

•shrug off the bad and embrace the good

Over the holiday, we had a chance to visit “the lake” and the wonderful, resilient and positive people who are there today. We sang another song – this time, patriotic and reminiscent. It was a choice to rejoice. There was discussion of various maladies suffered by the group members but no one accepted that as their destiny. Just a bump in the road on their journey.

Choose to be positive.

Choose to be grateful.

Choose to be happy.

Choose to look forward at the pending opportunities, not the challenges before they were overcome.

You are blessed…go act like it.

Have a blessed weekend!