A new week. A new month (in a couple of days) A new attitude?
As I crawled out of bed this morning, I figured there are three kinds of days.
ONE: There is the kind of day when we just cope, endure, or make it through the day. This is the day when we dwell upon what is not "right" in our lives. Things that we wished were different. Things that we could change if we had the power and choice. It is coping with unemployment, health problems, children problems, and all kinds of problems. We dwell upon these challenges throughtout the day. It is a coping day with a sad, negative attitude. We are alone, and feel alone.
TWO: This is a day when we are robots. We go through what is expected of us, not feeling good nor bad. We don't have any major challenges, we don't have a sore thumb, or a headache, nor anything else to cause us to dwell upon the negative side of things. We just go through the motions of what we do each day. Those around us just see the "normal" person doing as they have always done. We don't cause any problems in our life, we just do as expected.
THREE: This is the kind of day when we greet everything with a smile, with the Spirit within our soul. We see miracles everywhere. We are so thankful for the little things we have each day. We count each breath as a blessing from Father. We can't help but see His hand in every little thing surrounding us. Fellow mortals see in us a light in our eyes. They see someone who is glad to be alive and someone who seems to be on top of everying and not challenged with anything.
What makes the difference? As I started this day, I wasn't going to enter into the realm of the first day described above. I made a decision that I was not going to focus on the negative and how I would make things better. That just leads to depression, sadness, and feeling burdened all day long. I figured as I climbed out of bed that it was just going to be a day TWO. I was going to go to work. I was not going to try to influence anyone else, I was just going to cope with the day. Then I decided that was the easy, lazy way out.
Instead, I felt that my attitude could, would change my day. That is the only difference between these three, different days. ME.
As you can see, I have blogged about this much of late. I guess that is what one of the big things I need to work on, for I seem to be continually thinking along those lines. Guess that is one of the big changes, one of the goals I should take in stride and change in my life.
As I sit here and ponder about this idea, that sweet Spirit tells me that this is possible every day, it is totally up to me. I am the master of what kind of day I am going to have today. No one else can infuence my decision, my actions, my day. Make it a day number one, two or three?
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