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You and I cannot determine the direction of the wind, but we can set our sails to go where we want to go. That’s really what life is all about. Yet, most of us spend more time planning our vacations than we do planning the direction of our lives.

Having grown up along the coast, I spent many summers sailing with family and friends. I can remember as a young child wondering how we could be heading in one direction when the wind was blowing directly into my face. No matter the direction from which the wind blew, we always ended up at the appointed destination. Maybe my dad knew how to set the sails.

Such is it with life. We cannot determine what is going to happen along our life path. Sometimes the wind will be at our backs and we will move forward with rapidity. Other times the wind may be hitting us head on and we may slow down but we will not move backwards.

That is the beauty of life. All the challenges that may come along will not drive us backwards as long as we know how to set sail forward. We cannot control everything that goes on in the world. Who would want to? But, we can control how we react to what comes our way. Even the biggest obstacles in life cannot halt us if we are prepared to move forward, if we have set our sails correctly.