Starting a new Joyce Meyer's book entitled: The Secret to True Happiness
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
The only life you can enjoy is your own. The first step to enjoying our everyday lives is to accept the lives we've been given.
"Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is for one to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun all the days which God gives him-for this is his allotted part. Also, every man to whom God has given riches and possessions, and the power to enjoy them and to accept his appointed lot and to rejoice in his toil--this is the gift of God (to him)." Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
What Solomon is basically communicating here is: enjoy your life. Take your "appointed lot" in life and enjoy it. Embrace the life that God has given you. You have to take what you have and decide that you are going to do the best you can with it. Your life will not change until you start doing so. God is asking you to be faithful with your life, not with someone else's.
God has given you everything He has for a reason--and on purpose. I am not encouraging you to settle for situations that need to be improved, but I am urging you to accept the way God made you and the life He has given you. Don't complain, don't compare, don't covet someone else's life, and don't spend your valuable time wishing things were different. Realize that every life includes good and bad, happy--sad, easy--difficult, strengths and weaknesses.
Determine today to take the first step toward learning to enjoy your everyday life by making the most of your life. Embrace your life because God is never going to give you someone else's! (Joyce Meyer)
Alright the picture above was a really big stretch--smiling while ironing? But I like her message and it's filled with action words: accept, determine, decide, embrace, learning. Our journey in life is not one of passivity but action. Pray for a peace on things you can't change about yourself--improve on what you can.
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| Spend more time living than wishing. |
1 comment:
I REALLY like her balance. Not at all the "victim", and copping out to fate or "it's God's will" if it is something that we really CAN work on to improve.
I remember several years ago, having to work through the resentment of a situation, and accepting that this was the "level" that was our life. And knowing it was okay to rise to the top of our "level", instead of comparing.
My Mom was dying, and I was caring for her, and it was draining our small savings. We lived in a 40 yr old moldy trailer. My brother lives in a million dollar home, yet refused to help care for Mom monetarily. I wasted time and emotion on the comparison game. So, I know what Joyce Meyer was saying.
It has brought so much more peace to accept that this is our life... and to just try to make it the best. And now God has blessed us with a home of our own, in His time. But I think it took that lesson first... and now we really can appreciate the blessing.
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