Focus on what works--one day at a time!

Today I attended a class at church where the minister shared about the history of the church. In doing so, we took a tour around the beautiful Marin County grounds.  He called our attention to a fountain in the center of the garden with name blocks. Each block had been purchased by a member of the church tin support the building capital fund started years earlier.  He told us a story about an early member who, for years, was furious with the church because her name was misspelled on the block.  He said, "your name is spelled correctly." She insisted, "you're wrong."  Then one day he walked her aoround to the other side of the fountain where he showed her a second block with her name--spelled correctly.   His point in sharing the story with us was to recognize how easy it is to focus on the misspelled block, the areas of our life that aren't as we'd like them to be.  Yet it's takes a little more effort to step aside and see how mnany things are right and wonderful, and in fact as we'd have them.  That experience was a reminder---an esteemable reminder to take time to appreciate all that's working in your life.