How True

"Ah, well. He could muddle on about the fire, or he could look at what had risen from the ashes. Wasn't that the gist of life, after all, making the everyday choice between fire and phoenix?"

(Jan Karon, "Out to Canaan")

That the fire or phoenix is an everyday choice is interesting. And it is - over and over again we are faced with deciding whether to be bogged down in the ashes of some decision or situation, or whether to learn, grow and move on. Sometimes they seem so ordinary that it is almost impossible to think of the alternative as a phoenix, glorious, bright, full of life. And yet even the little results can indeed be glorious if looked at with gratitude and blessings.

I'm going to try to opt for the phoenix just a little more often. ~ blessings