SOME LINKS AND AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY

Following are two clips from Darkness Radio of two hours of interview by David Shrader and Tim Dennis of Adrian Finkelstein, M.D. and Sherrie Lea Laird on Monday, July 15, 2007, 8-10 PST:

www.darknessradio.com/Dr.Finkelstein
www.darknessradio.com/sherrielea,

THE FOLLOWING REMINDS ME OF SHERRIE LEA LAIRD, MARILYN MONROE REINCARNATED, AS A LITTLE GIRL, LOVING TO SING, AND LATER ON BECOMING THE-TOP-OF-THE-CHARTS SCOTTISH-CANADIAN POP SINGER, WITH HER SADE REMIX HIT, NO ORDINARY LOVE:

http://www.glumbert.com/media/connie

AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY TO SHARE

LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE.
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> >
> > John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood
> > and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him
> > how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be
>twins!"
> >
> > He was a natural motivator.
> >
> > If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the
> > employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
> >
> > Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and
> > asked him, "I don't get it!
> >
> > You can't be

a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
> >
> > He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two
> > choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can
> > choose to be in a bad mood.
> >
> > I choose to be in a good mood."
> >
> > Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I
> > can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
> >
> > Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
> > their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I
> > choose the positive side of life.
> >
> > "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
> >
> > "Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away
> > all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
>
> >

situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
> >
> > You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
> > your choice how you live your life."
> >
> > I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry
>
> > to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him
>
> > when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
> >
> > Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious
> > accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
> >
> > After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
>
> > from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
> >
> > I saw him about six months after the accident.
> >
> > When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be
>
> >

twins...Wanna see my scars?"
> >
> > I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through
> > his mind as the accident took place.
> >
> > "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
> > soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground,
> > I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I
> > could choose to die. I chose to live."
> >
> > "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
> >
> > He continued, "..the paramedics were great.
> >
> > They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
> > into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and
> > nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'.
> > I knew I needed to take action."
> >
> > "What did you

do?" I asked.
> >
> > "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said
>John.
> > "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The
> > doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
>
> > a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."
> >
> > Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on
> > me as if I am alive, not dead."
> >
> > He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
> > amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the
> > choice to live fully.
> >
> > Attitude, after all, is everything .
> >
> > Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
> > itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.
> >
> > After all today is the tomorrow you

worried about yesterday.
> >
> > You have two choices now:
> >
> > 01. Delete this.
> >
> > 02. Forward it to the people you care about.
> >
> > You know the choice I made.
>