Each of us takes a number of journeys in our lifetime.  Some of those are down the road and around a hill.  Others are journeys within, the sometimes bumpy road to self-improvement.  Hopefully, the success is in the journey, the act of trying to be something better in 2004 than we were in 2003.

We have always been and will always be presented with forks in the road.  Those forks are the succession of choices that face us. . .literally millions over a lifetime.  And not all those choices are the seemingly big ones, like where to live or what to be when we grow up.  Some are so small we hardly realize we made them.

One of our greatest challenges has to be the acceptance of the fact that we have a vast power within us, the power to choose what we think and feel.  It’s an awesome power and one we should use to its fullest.  What a world this could be if everyone took the responsibility for his own thoughts and took it upon herself to choose only good thoughts.

Use Your Power Wisely - - -

                                  Choose to laugh, rather than cry.

                                  Choose to heal, rather than hurt.

                                  Choose to create, rather than destroy.

                                  Choose to have courage, rather than fear.

                                  Choose to praise, rather than criticize.

                                  Choose to give, rather than take.

                                  Choose to act, rather than procrastinate.

                                  Choose to persevere, rather than quit.

                                  Choose to grow, rather than stagnate.

                                  Choose to pray, rather than curse.

                                  Choose to forgive, rather than keep score.

                                  Choose to live, rather than die.

                                  CHOOSE TO LOVE, RATHER THAN HATE.

We hope your new year is one of many blessings,

Lana Keating