Recently, I was driving on an old dirt road way out in the country when I came to a sign which said: "Be real careful which ruts you get into. You'll be in them for the next 20 miles!"

Some people get in the rut of seeing life as nothing more than just coping, just enduring, just surviving, just sticking it out.

In a recent Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown expressed it like this: "I have a new philosophy of life, Linus. From this moment on, I'm going to only dread one day at a time!"