Here is a picture of me in Wisconsin by a sign for the Ice Age trail. In January of 2004, my pal Pat and I went for a little camping trip. We started the mid-morning adventure at about 4 degrees above zero...Yes, FOUR. After hiking for 5 hours or so we set up camp and quickly got into our tent and sleeping bags.

After taking a little nap and waking up around 5:30pm, completely dark and even colder, we made and ate supper and quickly got back in the tent. Attempting to sleep in sub-zero temperatures wasn't the easiest, but for my pal Pat, it was down right impossible. You see, Pat's sleeping bag was rated to +15, it was now -13. "It was the most miserable night of my life", Pat's words, and he wasn't kidding.

Now having said all that, what a great time and adventure we had! Sure we were cold. Sure all of our water froze and we had to cut our trip short...but what an adventure!

Isn't that how life is sometimes. When we are in the thick of things with deadlines, family troubles and stress everywhere it sometimes is just miserable. But after, when things settle down a bit and we look back at those times, can't we always find something good in those times? Something that we can look back at and say, yeah man, that was rough, but we got through it and we are better for it, stronger for it or just maybe it wasn't as bad as we thought?

I think we can. I think is we just slow down, pause and reflect......we can find good in just about anything life throws at us!