Be as a Mirror not as a Door.

Today I am thankful for Moscato. I am thankful for that wonderful feeling a few sips of it gives my mind and muscles after a long hard day. I am thankful for long distance friends, the smiles they can entice simply by informing me of their impending arrival. I am thankful for little voices, sweet like sugar, reminding me that no matter how down I feel that there is always something to be excited about...like cinammon rolls on butterfly plates.

My thoughts today are about self presentation, I myself am terribly guilty of saying unlady like things that I would hate to see myself say on camera. My mother always said that I would be perfect...If I never opened my mouth, and that one day she was going to record me when I was acting obnoxious just so I could so how utterly ridiculous I looked and sounded. I wish she would have...I may have learned this lesson sooner.

"Be as a Mirror, Not as a Door."

Picture a person, someone that you would consider delightful, someone you would love to be around. Now look at all those lovely traits they have, perhaps they smile a lot or talk in short sweet sentences and always leave you with a smile. Now look at yourself...do you have those lovely traits? Maybe you do...at times I know I do...but maybe, just maybe you have things you can improve upon...which I also know I do. Mirror what you find to be beautiful, mirror happines and mirror love. Do those things as if someone is always watching you, examining you, never say or do anything that you would not be proud to own up to. Do not be as a door who shuts out delightfulness and happiness. I know right now, I could just cry, I had a bad day. But I will put a smile on my face, take a deep breath and I will hold my head high like a lady. No matter how bad my day is I still have so much to be thankful for, I have family, friends, health, a job that pays the bills and most of all I have the knowledge that although today was bumpy, the road of life will once again find me cruising on a freshly paved road, easily and effortlessly. Our todays do not have to be signs of our tomorrows, each day is an individual gift and sometimes you get an ugly sweater...but somedays, oh somedays theres a Range Rover with a bow waiting for you in the driveway. Simply be thankful that God has given you the opportunity to open a gift, no matter what the contents, each day is still wrapped tightly with love and tied together with possibility, how you use it is completely up to you.

With Love From Betty.