This is the third day in a row I wanted to add a new blog to my site. The best laid plans of mice and men….
Day one had me technically challenged in trying to remember how to add a blog. I needed to wait until after work to ask my technical genius of a husband how to do it. By that time, I was exhausted, mentally and physically and couldn’t remember what I wanted to blog about in the first place. I know it was really great stuff - it just wouldn’t come to me. It had to be truthful, because, as my great aunt used to say, ‘if it was a lie, the devil would have helped me!’
Yesterday was too crazy busy to do much of anything except work and come home. I did manage to find time to sleep through the Blue Jays baseball game last night though.
Right now, I have a moment or two of quiet and am sitting on our back sunroom porch soaking in the beautiful sunshine and unusually warm temperature of mid April. The only sound is the occasional buzz of my daughter’s cell phone that is sitting across the table from me. She is upstairs napping, so missing the calls and texts that are coming her way.
One of my mentors in life is Joyce Meyer. I just love watching her TV program weekday mornings at 8am. I rush around trying to get everything done so I can sit and absorb her wonderful teaching. This week was all about our attitude – ah yes – I remember why I wanted to blog now!
Attitude. As soon as I got the teaching, I knew the trials weren’t far behind. It’s so easy to have a good attitude when everything is well in my world. It’s quite another when things are unraveling at work and home life is a little less than perfect! This week was not without its struggles – much like any other week.
My tendency is to have a pretty upbeat, positive attitude. There’s good and bad to that. The good is that I’m usually the life of the party…the bad is when I’m grumpy, I’m really grumpy. I get a ‘square face’ as my mom says, and pretty much everyone who knows me even a little bit, knows I’m in a foul mood.
Joyce mentioned our countenance should be like Christ. That’s our outward appearance – what we show to the world. All her talks on attitude focus on it being a choice. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why I would intentionally choose to be square-faced.
This week, my attitude was a conscious challenge for me.
I encourage you to think about your own happiness; your attitude and how both of them are a choice. Circumstances are not enough to get us down – only our free will can do a good job of that.
Attitude – it’s a choice. The challenge – making continual good choices in our lives. The encouragement – God knows our choice is difficult and He has given us the resources to be successful at it.