OMG, I really have to get better at this blogging thing. I have so many ideas and so little time to write them down. Today is Sunday; I had a great exprience at church today and I learned a lot. Let me see if I can share any of those ideas with you.
The simplest way to convey what I learned today is to tell you that Happiness Is A Choice!!!!! A very good friend of ours was an elementary school principal. He is best remembered by his students as a principal who came over the loud speaker each morning before the students began their day and said " Today you have a choice. You can choose to be happy or choose to be unhappy. The choice is yours. It's up to you." You see, he knew that if you choose unhappiness then you are missing out on God's greatest abundance for your life. Enjoy your life! Life is too short not to be enjoying each day. Enjoy everything....everyone. Family, friends, work, all of it. "Happiness is a decision you make, not an emotion you feel." So, you might as well decide to be happy. Nothing good is going to come of the other. Things are not going to get better because you chose to get upset about them. Complaining and getting angry for something is not going change it. It is what it is. (Another great friend told me that) You have to be happy today. This is the day! "This is the day the Lord has made...let us rejoice and be glad in it" the psalmist tells us. So tell God, "I'm going to be happy with who you made me to be !" Bloom where you are planted. Make the very best of what God has given you already. When He sees you do, then He will trust you with more. and More! And More! AND More! AND MORE! Learn to be happy in spite of your circumstances...not because of your circumstances. Don't worry about the past; it's already gone, don't worry about the future; no one promises you you'll even have one, just live in right here, right now. That's why it's called the present...it's a gift from God to us. Aren't we lucky?