This is one of my old posts.
I am putting it up again for a friend.


Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind
Life can be blissful an d happy and free
Life can put beauty in the things that you see
Life can place challenges right at your feet
Life can make good at the hardships we meet
Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin
Life can reward those determind to win
Life can be hurtful and not always fair
Life can surround you with people who care
Life clearly does offer its ups and its downs
Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad
Life is a mixture of happy and sad


                     SO


Take the life that you have and give it your best
Think positive, be happy, let God do the rest
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all
Take the love that your given and return it with care
Have faith that when needed it will always be there
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see
Take lifes simple pleasures let them set your heart free
The idea here is to simply even thescore
As you are met and faced with lifes Tug Of War.