When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.
Attitude
Henri J.M. Nouwen
To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives—the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections—that requires hard spiritual work.
Max Lucado
The grateful heart is like a magnet, sweeping over the day, collecting reasons for gratitude.
Joyce Meyer
Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it
Author Unknown
Begin your day with an “I get to” mentality instead of an “I have to” thought process. I get to go to work. I get to have a busy day… whatever it might be. We often dress our opportunities as stress, but they are, in fact, blessings.
Tom Zawacki
I’ve got bad news and good news. The bad news is that we’re about to be tested. The good news is, I know what questions will be on the test, and I’m willing to share them with you.
Here are the 10 questions:
1. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Love.
b. Choose not to love.
2. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Forgive.
b. Choose not to forgive.
3. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Gossip.
b. Choose not to gossip.
4. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Be merciful.
b. Choose not to be merciful.
5. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Extend grace.
b. Choose not to extend grace.
6. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Embrace change.
b. Resist change.
7. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Think the best of others.
b. Think the worst of others.
8. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Trust God.
b. Choose not to trust God.
9. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Quit.
b. Choose not to quit.
10. In your current circumstances your best way forward is to:
a. Risk.
b. Choose not to Risk.
Corrie Ten Boom
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…It’s something we make inside ourselves.
Elisabeth Elliot
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than resentful over what is withheld. One attitude or the other becomes a way of life.
Warren Wiersbe
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
Ray Johnston
Nobody does very well in marriage, in relationships at work, psychologically, or in life in general, if they’re not buoyant. Getting down is part of life. Staying down is what will kill you. If any Christian tells you. He’s never been discouraged, he’s lying. All of us are going to get down. You’re going to get down this year. It’s just going to happen. You may be there right now. But if you stay down, your education doesn’t matter. Your theology doesn’t matter. Your skill level doesn’t matter. Your financial backing doesn’t matter. If you get down and stay down, you will drown.