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| If it's possible to see red (get angry)about not seeing red, that is what I was doing.We had __1__the time of our autumn trip to see the changing __2__in the Great Lakes States, and I was really __3__.No matter how I strained my eyes I couldn't spot red anywhere.Not even a bit of golden yellow broke through the dull greenery. This vacation was a complete __4__.I sat alone in the backseat of our rented car and got __5__as we drove north through the dull, dark green.In the front seat my brother and my father chatted merrily, obviously __6__. Then a motto came to mind:"Happiness is a decision."It must have been something my mother said. She was always passing on words of __7__.When I was a child, she gave me a black book with __8__ pages.On the flyleaf she had written, "Look for a beautiful thing and you'll find it."I was supposed to keep a record of the most beautiful thing I saw each day. I remembered spending hours discussing what I'd __9__.A baby's smile?A stone shining with fool's gold?Pictures in the clouds, or tulips tipping their heads?I found so many beautiful things that it was __10__to pick just one. Now, on the road, I played Mother's game again.I took in the allgreen __11__.Thick forests lined both sides of the highway.The long hill pines and spruce were seen everywhere.Maple leaves danced in the gentle wind.I felt like a little girl again-__12__by beautiful things. Later in the trip, after we crossed the Upper Peninsula and drove into Canada, I found the bright __13__plants I had been looking for.But by then I'd already seen a million shades of __14__, the infinite variety and beauty that only our heavenly Father can __15__.And that we can always find-if we look closely enough. | ||||
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