~Thinking, as I sit outside on a park bench~ 

hummm….growing in life,  is like the growth of a tree…

A tree needs sunshine and water in order to survive (loosely put)

If a tree receives too much… It dies…

If a tree receives too little… It dies…

In order to survive, a tree must receive a balance of both… but sometimes the balance is broken, and it is force to weather whatever fate has planned for it…. but if that tree survives, it grows taller and stronger. The more mature that tree gets, the stronger it becomes and that once little sapling has the potential to become a mighty oak.

I feel, the more we overcome those obstacles we face in life, the taller and stronger we become. There is one advantage that we have over trees, its that trees do not have the free will to change and control the factors their lives, but we do.  The older we get, the more choices we have. Now im not blind mind you, I know there are some things that are beyond our control, and even though we cannot control our destinations, there is always some point in our live where we can control which road we choose in this life.

Just a thought… ~my words~

Welcome to another day in my life.  If most of you don’t know I have a younger brother. He is 25 years old and right now he is having problems adjusting to being a father and a responsible young man. Unfortunately, the mother is definitely not in the "Ideal" state of mind and was not ready to accept the responsibility of being a mother. So my brother has to step up quick, grow up quick and deal with the responsibility that has been placed before him. The good part that my brother not alone with this issue, even though he has some growing up to do, we are family and we do what we can, when we can, to take care of our own, without question…without compromise…  If we all share the suffering together, it is not as difficult as one suffering alone. ~My Life~