As you expand your vision, your life expands. We could say that your life depends upon your vision. Let life catch up to your vision. Do not focus so much on what and where your life has been, else you lag behind it, watchful of what it does before you take a step. Have a vision far greater than your present life. Have a vision so vast that boundaries no longer exist. Envisioning is not the same as expecting. Envisioning is like a steering wheel of life.

You are the maker of your boundaries. You make them with your thoughts. Your thoughts are the making of you or the seeming undoing of you. You set up your life. You are the limiter of your life. This is not blame, but it is responsibility.

What happens in your life happens in your life.

When you are presented with a favorite pie, you have choices of what to do with it. You can eat some of it now and the rest later. You can save it all for later. You can eat it all now. You can invite your friends over to share the pie, or you can give it all away. Whatever happens in your life, you have choices.

If the pie is not one you like, you still have choices about how you treat it. You can toss it away without a backward glance. Or you can refrigerate it and glower at it every time you notice it. You can even eat it and find it is better than you thought. You can add something to it and make it into a different pie.

Certainly, life is something that you open. Have you not sometimes closed your life, pushed it away, run from it, chastised it, refused it?

You have to read a chapter of a book to know what it says. You have to go forward in life in the same way.

You are not a controller of life, but you are an inviter. Invite that which you desire and know that guests sometimes arrive in disguise. Welcome every guest, no matter what their appearance. Some come invited and some come uninvited. In any case, you are the host. Be gracious. The guests who arrive will also leave, and other guests will take their place by and by.

Consider that you are a host to life. Do not snub it, for it has come to you.

Life is a great gift. Its wrappings are not the substance of it. You are the substance. As you live, you remark on life. Let your thoughts ennoble it. Go past appearances. Do not begrudge your life. You may be incorrect in your appraisal of it.

If you are taken aback by your life, consider your life then an unruly child. You do not keep pointing out to the child how bad he is. If you do, you reinforce that which you would change. Before you can change this unruly child, you have to find something to appreciate in him. You are at the helm of this child. You cannot command him, but you can encourage him. You can steer him in different ways. Protest does not usually work.

Or consider your life a mule, if you like. Mules start and stop at their will. But treat your mule as a gentle horse, and he will respond to you differently. You are the motivator of the mule, and you are the motivator of your life. You have been a critic. Now be a cheerleader. Find something in your life to cheer, and cheer it on.

Do not call your life names. Do not refuse it. Walk along beside it. Life has more sides to it that you have perhaps noticed. Notice now and bless this life you walk beside.