WHEN YOU JUST CAN'T RESIST IN LIFE

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"The trouble with resisting temptation," says one woman, "is that it may never come again." Hmmm....

Yeats said this about those ever-present allurements: "My temptation is quiet." And Oscar Wilde quipped, "I can resist everything except temptation." Isn't that the way it is for most of us? Many folks pray, "Lead us not unto temptation." But the problem is ... most of us don't need leading -- we can find the way ourselves! And seductive temptations will also find their ways to us.

It is not always possible to avoid that which is not in our best interest. We're enticed to spend money we don't have. We're lured to ingest something that we will later regret. We're pulled toward people who may not be good for us, and tempted to get back at those who've used or hurt us. Seductions of various kinds bait us at every opportunity.

A pet store owner learned a hard lesson about temptation. He bought a one-foot, three-pound grouper (a fish) to add to his large saltwater aquarium. He knew that groupers tend to eat smaller fish, but he thought he could control what the fish ate by hand feeding it. In time, however, he noticed that the expensive, exotic fish in his tank grew sparser.

After 18 months, he was out $5,000 worth of tropical fish. But he now had a three-and-a- half foot long, 35 pound grouper. And who can blame the grouper? It just couldn't resist fresh sea food!

But you and I aren't fish. We CAN do something about those temptations that assault us daily. When tempted, we can decide to act in our best interest, rather than on impulse. We can decide to come from strength -- for just that moment -- rather than weakness. And the next time it will be easier, for we will be that much stronger.

You DO have the strength needed to act in your best interest. You CAN take control of your urges, rather than allowing them to control you. And when you do, you WILL have the life your want.

From Lifesupport.

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