Ash Wednesday!

I am still getting used to the blogging thing and I really want my blog to have music, so bear with me if I post some odd links for a while. 

Some very wise young people I know recently posted a quote about things being hard...and if they were never hard, we wouldn't know when it was easy.  So essentially the difficult things in life make us thankful for the things that are good.  Being sick is the same, when we are sick it makes us thankful for all the times we are healthy.  The bad give us a new appreciation of the good.  Lent can be same, those people who have chosen to give up something for lent (like chocolate, wine, or coffee) will find great enjoyment in having them after Easter. Or....they may find out that they didn't miss them that much. 

For myself, I think the blog will work.  I concentrated very hard on the way to work this morning looking for the beauty in my surroundings.  I actually did enjoy the look of the bare trees with the sun shining through them.  How can bare trees be pretty, I don't know but they were. 

As for enjoying things once they are gone......I will enjoy this cold very much...when it is GONE!  Happy Ash Wednesday!