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    Each day keeps coming at us at what feels like "mack truck" speed.  Sometimes I just want to hop off the ride and stand on the side of the road to watch the others speed by.  We all know that no one gets off this ride and just watches.   We have choices each day and we can choose to keep going and conquer the obsticles in our path, or to do nothing.  Doing nothing and not tackling the obsticles is a result of fear and "what if's".
If we sit back and "what if" ourselves, we will accomplish nothing.  We will go nowhere.  We can lead no one.  We can achieve nothing.
    As I look ahead at the obsticles in my path I make the choice to not fear them, but to learn from them, to overcome them, to embrace them and to appreciate them.  Without these difficulities, how could I possibly appreciate the ease that comes with a quiet day? 

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Elenor Roosevelt

I hope for you reader to have obsticles today, so that peace may abide in the quiet days.