Our reactions to life's lessons

The greatest problem facing any organism is successful reaction to its environment. Environment, speaking scientifically, is the sum total of your experiences. In plain United States, this means fitting vocationally, socially and maritally into the place where you are. If you don't fit you must move or change your environment to fit you. If you can't change the environment and you won't move you will become a failure, just as tropical plants fail when transplanted to the Nevada desert. Learn From the Sagebrush ¶ But there is something that grows and keeps on growing in the Nevada desert—the sagebrush. It couldn't move away and it couldn't change its waterless environment, so it did what you and I must do if we expect to succeed. It adapted itself to its environment, and there it stands, each little stalwart shrub a reminder of what even a plant can do when it tries!

It does grow back

Life's lessons come to us in all different formats and times.  I live in a place where it still can freeze up to Memorial Day, that is at the end of May. Yes is snowed a little here 2 days ago, no it didn't stay long but it snowed.  Today it has been raining and so did it yesterday.   Me and my wife took a little walk around the yard after it rained.  We stopped by our lilac bushes and looked at the flowers that were starting to bud.  It was beautiful.  Just a little bit of rain water was sitting in the buds.  I wish I had the picture that I took to show you. Very beautiful.   We also have strawberries and raspberries that we have been growing the past couple of years.  The strawberries seem to not really die (or hibernate, or whatever plants do during the winter) but the raspberries-well the stems look dead all winter long.  The first summer after winter, after we planted them, we cut them back because we thought that they were dead.  Well guess what they weren't.  We didn't know that until a couple of years later when we didn't get them cut back fast enough and they started to grow back.  Yea, we could have some real nice raspberry bushes right now.  Well life is like that some times. It could be with a lot of different opportunities, sometimes it does grow back.  An opportunity that we thought had passed could come around to us again.  someone that we thought we would never see, or hear from again we do. What ever it may be it could and sometimes does come back around to us again.

Happy living.

Wes