DOES ANYBODY HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL 
                       AND KNOW WHAT LIFE REALLY HOLDS FOR THEM?

I doubt it. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who thought he had his whole life planned out. He has 8 more years till he retires, then he is going to get a condo in Florida, and be a snowbird spending half a year in Florida and half a year in Chicago. Then he plans on investing his pension and living off the interest!
Sounds nice. If it happens. What if he looses his job early? What if he gets hit by a bus next month? Know one (except maybe Miss Cleo and Dionne Warwick...) can predict their future.

We all need to be able to embrace change. Did you ever have something happen in your life that made you felt like a rug was pulled out from under you? Maybe you lost your job unexpectedly. Maybe a loved one passed away suddenly. You can not moan and whine and say  Why Me? You have to have faith that it's part of the universe's perfect plan. Maybe it is not what you expected - but maybe it was meant to be.

I was at Terry Starbuckers site, Ramblings From A Glass Half Full, and he had a great post about the subject. He says, "Logic would tell us that if we knew that a road didn't lead to a destination, we wouldn't travel on it - or if a book or movie didn't draw to any conclusions we wouldn't read or watch it. But that's logic.

The heart, and none other than Sir Winston Churchill, looks at this very differently:


"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

You never know exactly where life will take you. You have to accept the fact we are not in total control, though many people would like to believe they are! Adversity is part of life's learning lessons.  Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.