Choice
"I believe with all my heart that we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. " Eleanor Roosevelt Today is the first day of a new year. Already the world has been blessed with new life, as it has been diminished by the destructive side of human nature. The good news is this - we still have the power of choice. We can look towards the light, or we can choose the darkness. We can reach out in love or we can choose to remain cold and isolated. As with any rose, we can choose to see the beauty and embrace it, or we can complain about the thorns. Life is all about choice. Believing as she does that "conscious choices make for conscious living," Sandra Magsamen wrote this New Year's afffirmation in the January issue of her studio newsletter, Living Artfully ( http://www.sandramagsamen.com/ . It is a little too early in the day - and the year - to come up with anything better...