Start Your Day Right

FROM NIGHTINGALE.COM

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” — Earl Nightingale:

How do you approach each day? Awaiting possibilities of good, blessings, opportunities for love, happiness, peace, joy? Or dread and fear of negative things, worrying about things that may never happen, or that are out of your control?

You get what you expect. If you seek, you find. It’s all just a question of what you’re looking for. As a line in the song “Mitzpah” says, “if good is what you’re looking for, then good is what you’ll find.”

You often miss opportunities, open doors, or Divine appointments because you’re looking in the wrong direction. You cannot climb uphill thinking downhill thoughts! Which window and which glasses are you looking out from? Try God’s…use “SON”glasses because you know and believe that your future is bright!

Keep looking up–that’s why God put the stars up there in the heavens–so you’ll see how high you can go and how vast your options are! And if God knows all the stars by name, surely He knows yours, and cares for you!

Start your day asking God to show you the possibilities laid out just for you! And then reach out and hold onto each one as they come to you. See how high and far you can soar! Aim at the sun (Son). You may not reach it, but you will fly higher than if you never aimed at all.

As soon as you awake,  remind yourself to live only for this day. Yesterday has vanished, and tomorrow is not promised to us. Refuse to think about either the past or the future. Live in the only moment you have any power over or any choice in, the gift of now: the present.

Give God your heavy loads of your yesterday’s memories and tomorrow’s worries–after all, they are two days you can do nothing about! So give them to God and just walk lightly through today. Ask God to guide you along your path, and to clear any obstacles along your way. Listen for G0d’s guidance, and follow His directions.

Watch for small and big blessings throughout your day–then share some of them with others around you. Most importantly, share the gift you can give everyone and anyone: the gift of yourself! Be there with and for those you love, and for those who need love. Be to others what Christ has been to us all and what He gave so freely of: time, personal attention and unconditional love. You’ll always find that the more you give to others the more you have given back to you! Kindness is like jam: you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself!

At the end of the day, you will find that because you looked for it, you found something, or many somethings, to be grateful for, to realize how blessed you are, and reasons to be happy that you are alive! As a result, you will look forward with even greater expectation and positive anticipation to find all the good that God has in store for you tomorrow. So, know that you can alter your life by altering your attitude. And PACE yourself: Positive Attitude Changes Everything!

Luke 12: 6-7:  Jesus said to the whole crowd of thousands who were listening to Him and to His disciples, “Dear friends, what is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows!”