This wise attitude about attitude has been said in so many ways by poets, prophets, philosophers, psychologists, politicians - people in all walks of life - for centuries.
I appreciate coming across this expression of it from Martha Washington. She wrote this in a letter to a friend. Despite the death of her first husband, the death of a teenage child, her second husband engaged in a war, and who knows what other private sufferings, Martha proclaims a determination to live well each day, with gratitude and joy.
Whatever this day brings, may we choose, like Martha, to live it with good cheer, with gratitude for life itself.
Choosing love too,
Charlene
THE FIFTH GIFT IS HOPE. Through each passage and season may you trust the goodness of life. -from The Twelve Gifts of Birth