What's missing

What's missing from life? What's missing from how we interact with each other? I'm leading a penny drive at school to help patients battling Leukemia and Lymphoma. It's one of my most favorite events at school. The students donate more out of a sense of competition to win the pizza party, rather than a sense of community service to help others...but still. I'm hoping that if we can build a habit of service now, before they understand why it's important, then when they do get it it will already seem like second nature to serve.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis...it is the lack of love and charity; the terrible indifference to one's neighbor.
---Mother Teresa

I am...

Watched part of Tom Shadyac's new documentary "I Am" today. It was good. It came from his desire to explore the difference between a simple life and a busy, stuff-filled life; the difference between "I want more" and "I have enough"; the concept, question, or challenge of where happiness and contentment come from.

"Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything."

--Thomas Merton

Choice revisited

My OLW for the year is CHOICE. When I picked it, I intended it to mean that I was choosing a healthier lifestyle. At I think that's still what I mean. I look at that quote on the wall and I think...yes, my destiny is about the choice I'm making...not just the chance circumstances of my life. So, why...is it still hard for me to make that choice? Maybe I should have picked step...as in one step at a time. It seems that I have an end point in my mind...but I can't get it in my mind that it takes those little steps to realize that choice.

I found this quote today...truth be told, I went looking for the a quote. But I think it still counts:

"Sometimes it isn't what you do, but what you don't do that makes you who you are."
--Author Unknown

Today, I am feeling like my OLW is more like NON-CHOICE :-).

Faithful, Integrity

His master replied, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!"
Matthew 25:21

How can I honor what God gives me?...How do I show that I am faithful and dependable with what God gives me? How can I say I'm being faithful to what God gives me and entrusts to me when I turn my back on it during the week?

Hmm...

A new view of choice

"The future depends on what we do in the present."
--Mahatma Gandhi

I need to keep reminding myself that this is a journey...funny, because that was my word last year. It's a continual process. It's not picking a word on January 1 and wondering why life is the same. It's picking a word and choosing...making the *choice*...to make it a part of my life. Not hope it's a part of my life...make it a part of my life.

I have had two completely, unapologetically, self-indulgent days as we've had a couple of snow days from school. Now, on Saturday with all this time in front of me before we go back on Monday; I am willing myself to choose to make myself productive. I WILL finish my laundry...I WILL correct those final drafts. I WILL...I WILL...I WILL make that choice. :-)

OLW Choice

My one little word for this year is CHOICE. On my living room wall is a vinyl quote I placed a few months ago...it says "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice." So, when I was searching for a OLW for 2012 this quote stared at me during my thinking time. I came to adopt it in the following ways: my choices, what I choose to do with my life...in my life, recognizing that my life is a result (for the most part) of my choices.

I enrolled in Ali Edwards' online class to build a OLW album over the year in the hopes that I'll keep the word CHOICE in the forefront of my mind...my life.

So, maybe blogging my choices will help too.

My choice so far today...
**cornbread for breakfast
**iced latte
**computing ALL morning.

Not in love with these choices, I gotta say.

So, here are some other choices.
**A hike in the sunshine
**Putting my page protectors in my OLW album
**Prepping my PTP stuff
**Correcting some drafts...not all...just some :-)

Now...those are choices I can get behind :-)