It is another Tuesday and not at all like the one I encountered last week. This is another week just waiting for us to fill it with whatever we will. Taking each day as it comes, I plan to give the very best I have and in doing so may the best come back to me. I can’t control what much of what happens to me but I do have the ability to decide what comes from me. What is your week going to be filled with?

I came across something special to use here in this post and would like to dedicate it to one of my favorite and special blogging friends. This one is for you Trucker Bob or as you are sometimes called Studley. For those who do not know TB you can find him at Over The Road.

A Creed of the Open Road
Ralph Waldo Triner

To live to our highest in all things that pertain to us, and to lend a hand as best we can to all others for this same end.

To aid in righting the wrongs that cross our path by pointing the wrong-doer to a better way, and thus aid him or her in becoming a power for good.

To turn toward and to keep our faces always to the light, knowing that we are then always safe, and that we shall travel with joy the open road.

To love the fields and the wild flowers, the stars, the far-open sea, the soft, warm earth, and to live much with them alone; but to love struggling and weary men and women and every pulsing, living creature better.

To do our own thinking, listening quietly to the opinions of others, but to be sufficiently men and women to act always upon our own convictions.

To do our duty as we see it, regardless of the opinions of others–seeming gain or loss, temporary blame or praise.

To remain in nature always sweet and simple and humble and therefore strong.

To play the part of neither fool nor knave by attempting to judge another, but to give that same time to living more worthily ourselves.

To get up immediately when we stumble, face again to the light, and travel on without wasting even a moment in regret.

To love and to hold due reverence for all people and all things, but to stand in awe or fear of nothing save our own wrong-doing.

To recognize the good lying at the heart of all people, of all things, waiting for expression all in its own good way and time.

To know that it is the middle ground that brings pleasure and satisfaction, and that excesses have to be paid for always with heavy and sometimes frightful costs.

To know that work, occupation, something definite and useful to do, is one of the established conditions of happiness in life.

To realize always clearly that thoughts are forces, that like creates like, and that to determine one’s thinking therefore is to determine one’s own life.

To take and to live always in the attitude of mind that compels gladness, looking for and thus drawing to us continually the best in all people and all things, being thereby the creators of our own good fortunes.

To know that the ever-conscious realization of the essential oneness of each life with the Divine Life is the highest of all knowledge, and that to open ourselves as opportune channels for the Divine Power to work in and through us is the open door to the highest attainment, and to the best there is in life.

In brief–to be honest, to be fearless, to be just, joyous, kind. This will make our part in life’s great and as yet not fully understood play one of greatest glory, and we need then stand in fear of nothing–life nor death; for death is life. Or rather, it is the quick transition to life in another form; the putting off of the old coat and the putting on of the new; a passing not from light to darkness, but from light to light according as we have lived here; a taking up of life in another form where we leave it off here; a part in life not to be shunned or dreaded or feared, but to be welcomed with a glad and ready smile when it comes in its own good way and time.

from On the Open Road
1908

It was TB who fights his very own battle called Timmy and does it with such courage who gave me the idea to name my Multiple Sclerosis which is now known as Missy. Having given her a name has made this better for it is no longer the MonSter even during the most difficult of times. As a child I was afraid of monsters but never of girls named Missy, so no longer will I be afraid of MS for after all Missy will not control me. I will take each day as it comes and make the best of it and yes I know there will be some difficult times but I can and will deal with them.

Now for a little fun, find out which precious gem are you? Does it ring true for you?

! You are most like An Emerald !
Caring, giving, - and very emotional. You’re the
person
people turn to with a problem. You worry about
everybody,
and genuinely want to help - a little too much
sometimes.
As an emerald, you tend to take a more backseat to
the other
gems, but your inner beauty soon captivates those
who take
the time to get to know you.
Congratulations … You’re the selfless gem
everybody needs as a friend.

?? Which Precious Gem Are You ??
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Now as we close for today, remember Life Is Simply Good.