And Life Runs Through It...

'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.' said the cat. - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 The other day I overheard my father in law mentioning about my aunt. He has not seen my aunt in many years, but he still clearly remembered a conversation and was re-conveying it to a friend ... 

My aunt has cancer.  She has had it for many years.  But when asked how she dealt with her poor health, she described it as this...

  She said that she could have chosen to invest the rest of her life in a battle against cancer, but instead of fighting what she did not like and did not want, she decided to embrace what she had and what she loved. She decided to embrace life and live with cancer. 

As we begin this new year...that is how I hope to live and think too... 

There are many things in life that I do not like and focus attention on...

and so many things that I sometimes have chosen to fight...

But there is so much more that I can embrace...

 Epictetus, a Greek Philosopher, wrote, "People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take on them."

I am looking forward to 2014.  I hope you are, too!