The boy who came back from Heaven

     Self-pit imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption.  The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem & the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are & the larger the problem seems to grow.  Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.
     We're not the only ones with issues, & usually our own struggles are far from the worst we know about.  There is never a moment in life when it's impossible to have a heart filled with gratitiude - no matter what happens.

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:  the lat of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose's one's own way.
-Victor Frankl - survivor of a Nazi Prison camp

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