Attitude of Gratitude

Okay, so the past week and a half has been a major turn around for me: I've decided to practice an attitude of gratitude.

You see, gratitude isn't just an emotion, it's also a choice and action just like any emotion. We don't have to feel a certain way the majority ofthe time; we can choose to live in it. If it's a negative emotion, we tend to let it hold us hostage. I did the same thing.

Now I'm realizing that you get what you put out and if I continue to put out negative energy, that's what I will in turn receive. It's very much a change in attitude. I'm at  place in my life where there are many things I can't change in my own finite power, but I can choose to relish in the blessings I have in my present. (I'm one of those people who always looks toward th future and what I can't get in that without actually living in the blessing of my today.)

So as much as I'm not where I want to be yet, at least I'm not where I used to be. I have time to write more. I'm getting to understand and appreciate myself more. I'm learning about other people. This has been a true time of self-reflection that I'm really and trully grateful for. Now I see that I can honor God even in a time of turmoil and I can delight in Him. I don't have to focus on what I don't have, but what  do and how I can delight in it.

Psalm 37: 1-9
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;


be not envious of wrongdoers!

2 For they will soon fade like the grass

and wither like the green herb.

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;

dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. [2]

4 Delight yourself in the Lord,

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the Lord;

trust in him, and he will act.

6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,

and your justice as the noonday.

7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,

over the man who carries out evil devices!

8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!

Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

9 For the evildoers shall be cut off,

but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.