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My Thought for this Day......Just because you don't have to doesn't mean you shouldn't.

Open......

My Thought for this Day.......Are you open to new concepts and ideas around you? Open your eyes to see. Open your ears to hear. Open your heart to welcome. Open your arms to embrace. Open your mind to learn. We all have things to give and to receive. Closed mindedness confines us to just us. Think about it. Again......closed mindedness confines us to just us. YOU are not enough for yourself. There are a myriad of things right next to you that can surprise, delight, acknowledge, and educate. Why miss out because you make no attempt to see, hear, touch , feel. This is your day.....as was yesterday and hopefully tomorrow. Don't waste it!

Your Life.....

My Thought for this Day.....I am headed west and I have left a large part of my heart in the Parkland NICU. I have held Titus, I have watched him have sweet baby dreams, I have seen him already get mad at his Daddy for moving him, and I was told by the nurses that he is so popular, they have had to ban the all the docs and nurses that aren't associated with the NICU from coming to see him. His mama is also a star at Parkland and Titus has joined that club. His mom and dad married 3 years ago this coming Monday and two days later she stepped into Parkland as an Ob/Gyn resident. This coming Wednesday she will begin her fourth and final year of residency as one of the Chief Residents of fourth year. Now to my thought. This world is never easy, but always ours. Titus decided to join us early and is living in a Baby 5 star hotel....this according to his father. But he also is having to be strong and catch up to where he needs to be. He is getting the job done with a mighty heart and a courageous spirit. So tiny souls can teach us all to fight our own battles and not step over the stripes into judgement and criticism of whomever is driving in the lane next to you. We are meant to run a race...the human race. And while we must form our own values and while it is okay to disagree, it is not okay to hate. This little boy and all the other innocent children need a safe, strong world in which to flourish. Why can't we, as adults,understand it is up to us to build, not destroy. Emmie loves her Titus Dax Brannan with every fiber of her being. My prayer is that his future world is not built on the notion that 'I am right, and you are wrong!' My prayer is that in his life he will see people understand that it is okay to disagree; it is not okay to hate and kill and lash out in violent ways.

Whispers.......

My Thought for this Day....Never be too proud to learn from even the tiniest of circumstances. Life lessons come on whispers of Grace. Be still and listen. My Thought for this Day....Never be too proud to learn from even the tiniest of circumstances. Life lessons come on whispers of Grace. Be still and listen.

Icing........

My Thought for this Day......When you sit on your mountain top and try to figure out the meaning of life, you lose the 'wonderfulness' of being in the trenches. This world is unfair, sloppy, dirty and unkind. Yes, it is. But it is also mystical and joyful and beautiful and ours. Concentrate on the icing, not on the burned crust.

Live.......

My Thought for this Day......We all have battles to fight, obstacles to climb, valleys to cross. At the end of any day, if we can say I fought honorably, I climbed fairly and I crossed honestly, then we might not have lived easily, but we have lived well.

Wisdom......

My Thought for this Day......Some days are blank pages filled with never ending questions and concerns. Yet there are also days when silence erupts into joyful noise and you are supplied just what you need, exactly when you need it. It is then you realize again, with that deep-seated, unshakeable knowledge, that there is a Master Plan written by the Master of Life.

Difference....

My Thought for this Day......Sometimes we are not dissatisfied with our world, but with ourselves. Learn to tell the difference.

Ropes....

My Thought for this Day........There are unseen forces that hold us back....both internal and external....self-imposed and worldly. The essence of us is to recognize our boundaries as being temporary, and then to set forth on a path of power. What ropes wind tightly around you today?

Beauty.....

My Thought for this Day.......There is Glory all around us. It shines from the Heavens; it stands on the earth; it is mighty and forceful, and magnificent and free to all.

Change.....

My Thought for this Day......I wonder what you let change your heart? Do you allow gossip to weave its thorny vine around it? Do you look only at the superficial appearance of people and turn and walk away with a hardened heart? Do you stereotype your fellow man by race and ethnicity, thus missing out on a wealth of histories and cultures? Are you missing the melting pot of the human race? Does your heart cry out "Not like me, so not good"? Think long and hard about just exactly what you might be missing. You are a tiny speck in a huge eternal world. Can't you see that if you put blinders on your heart, you are overlooking the absolutely enormous gift of life in all its millions of facets? What a shame. Embrace yourself with a coat of many fabrics. Each thread is special. Each stitch God given

Pennies.....

My Thought for Today.....Life is a jar of pennies, some bright, some not. The truth is no matter your penny for today, you only get to spend it once.

Glitter......

My Thought for this Day.......Some days your sky is full of diamonds, some days lumps of coal. The trick is to never forget the glitter.

Perspective......

My Thought for this Day........We should look at our past with thankfulness for its existence. We should look on our future with hope for its promise. But today....this day.....we should wrap wonderfully and solidly around our shoulders knowing that this gift is all we can ever truly ask for.

Change......

My Thought for this Day......Sometimes you have to keep doin' what you're doin'. It may be too little, too much, or just right. But until you see the period at the end of your sentence, hear the lock click on your door, or have your green light change to red, steering the same path is the road best taken. Trust yourself to know when the rut becomes too deep.

Response......

My Thought for this Day.......We can live beyond our mistakes. But to try and totally erase them from our lives does a disservice to our pasts. We are not defined on the highs, lows, successes and defeats of yesterday. We are defined by how we use them.

Regrets.....

My Thought for this Day.......We all have regrets. They are part of life. But please don't put your face so close to your boiling pot that you can't see through the black mist of mistakes. Life is not about sitting in the fog of what if's...... Life is about standing in the sun of possibilities.