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Waking up that morning, Renie heard dripping outside the house. She opened the blinds of the bedroom window and saw a soggy lead-gray sky. What was her immediate reaction? “Oh, No! A horrible, gray, depressing, endlessly rainy day. I’m going to sink into depression. In fact, I’m already there.”

Then the thought hit. ‘You do have a choice, Reeno. You can be gloomy and depressed all day about the cold and the rain, or you can remember that the grass and flowers need and love this.’

Perspective.

How we choose to look at a situation makes a huge difference. It determined why Renie turned on all th...