Glass Half Full, Missy

Just wanted to share with you guys how blessed I am in life as a whole.  

I have a loving husband, wonderful kids, close friends, and great life that they share with me.

Every single one of you know me well enough to know that, in general, I have always been the one to look at the glass as half empty.

I don’t know why I am like that.

Then one day I was talking to my Mom about the job change situation and the fact that I was feeling like the company was stealing the last nine years of my life and now it’s over.

My Mom told me to look at all of the good things that have come from working there for so long. 

I got to do things I’d have never gotten the opportunity to do otherwise, learned things that I will carry with me in the rest of my working career, met people I would have never otherwise met and been places that I may have never had the chance to go.

It’s amazing how just how much of a difference one’s outlook on one’s situations can totally change one’s attitude. Just accepting that change is part of life that we can’t do anything about and giving it over to God can take so much of the weight off of your shoulders.

Psalms 55:22  ‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.’

Now I’m not saying that things will always be cotton balls and kittens.

I’m not saying there won’t be worries and conflicts.

What I am saying is that we can take the things that are happening in our lives (and we all have them going on), and use them as growing experiences and know that in a nutshell that’s all they are.

Anyway, I’m not writing a sermon here.   My girlfriend Becky just forwarded me the Psalm and it made things click for me today.