Pastor Ralph Diehl » allergy http://www.ralphdiehl.com Thoughts on Life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 The Choice is up to Me http://www.ralphdiehl.com/2008/04/08/the-choice-is-up-to-me/ http://www.ralphdiehl.com/2008/04/08/the-choice-is-up-to-me/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:53:02 +0000 pastordiehl http://www.ralphdiehl.com/2008/04/08/the-choice-is-up-to-me/ This weekend our bedroom got really warm one night so we opened the window a little.  The next morning my eyes were swollen and I couldn’t stop sneezing.  I had forgotten that part of Spring!  I have this Spring-time allergy that affects me for about two months, then is gone.  I had been looking forward to warmer weather for so long I had forgotten the down-side to Spring.

Yes, there is a down-side to every good thing we hope for.   We want flowers, but we don’t want rain.  We want to go shopping, but we don’t want to go to work.  We want to have fun, but we don’t want to be responsible for our actions.  This is life.  The bad comes with the good.

So, we can either focus on the bad things coming into our lives, or we can focus on the good.  They’re both there at every turn.  I can be defeated, or I can be a winner.  The choice is up to me.  So, I believe I’ll go spray my nose again and enjoy the sunshine one more time.

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