Good evening! For the next 10 days, I will be on a mission trip to Vietnam. During that time, I will have new blogs each night from guest authors! (Also, on many nights, I will post pictures from my trip here!) For the next 26 evenings, my spot will be filled by my dear sister in Christ, Trina Agee Cornell! Trina and I went through many mission trips together and I have been a guest in Trina's and her husband, Bob's home. Please keep me in your prayers!
Power of Positivity #9
I enjoy communicating with my family and friends through social media – especially Facebook. I follow a number of people and organizations that focus their efforts on spreading positivity to the masses. I love reading posts from Proverbs 31 Ministries, tobymac, Lysa TerKeurst (the founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries) – and Power of Positivity. I came across this organization through a friend of mine – I noticed that she shared posts from them on a regular basis, and I decided I would “like” the page and check it out for myself. Power of Positivity has spoken to me on a number of levels – the Lord allows just the right one to cross my path when it is most needed. I wanted to focus this series of blog posts on the posts that have resonated with me – and the lessons that I have learned from them.
“Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life.”
Summer is a time of rest and relaxation – but it is also a time of travel. The month of July is here – and with it, comes quite a bit of traveling for us. Bob, Connor, and I are looking forward to spending some quality time with my family as we travel to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for a week. Once we return from this trip, five days later, I fly out to Orlando with some of my colleagues for a conference. Needless to say, it is going to be a busy month – but we would not have it any other way!
Traveling is about the destination – a great deal of planning takes place before you ever hit the road. Once you start moving, it is about “arriving” at the place you intend to stay, and experiencing all there is to see and do there. I remember as a kid, when we would go on vacations, asking the all-important question – “Are we there yet?” The waiting makes us anxious – it excites us to think about the possibilities and opportunities that lie ahead of us.
Happiness, on the other hand, does not operate like traveling. Happiness is not a destination – it is not a place that you “arrive” at and stay. It changes by the day – and even at times, it changes by the moment. We have a tendency to let people, events, circumstances, and emotions affect this in positive and negative ways. Happiness is a choice that you make for yourself – setting your mind on believing the best about the day ahead. We can take confidence in that “this is the day that the Lord has made” – and we can rejoice in it.
Choose happiness today – and every day with which the Lord blesses you.
Steve
Luke 18:1
E-mail me at shawley@westburychristian.org
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