Note on the bathroom mirror
If you're not happy today, what will make you happy tomorrow?
If you're not satisfied with today, how will you be satisfied with tomorrow?
If you're not content with today, will you be content tomorrow?
More so than my surroundings, my environment, my friends or my family, my trials or my blessings, it is my choice to be happy today that will make me happy today. If I'm doing something - or not doing something - today that prevents me from feeling joy or contentment today, or if I'm waiting for that "thing" that will make me happy in the future, what guarantee do I have that tomorrow I won't still be doing that something or waiting for that thing? The only sure way we can feel happiness is to choose it... today. I once had a missionary companion who would ask this question when faced with a difficult choice that was easier to put off until tomorrow than dealing with today:
If not today, then when?
3 comments:
The bathroom mirror is a great place to have that saying! I continually have to remind myself of the same thing. What a blessing it is to be happy today! :)
I read this blog a couple of days ago and I keep thinking about it!
Sometimes I forget. So thanks for the reminder!
I forget all the time and blame other things and people for my "unhappiness." Interestingly enough, I was complaining about how stressed I've been at work to my wife, and the other day I was praying and in a hurry and just said "Help me to have a good attitude so that I don't get stressed." Afterwards I thought back and wondered why I would say such a nonsensical phrase, then it hit me: maybe it made perfect sense. The way I approach my duties at work determines how stressed I become. It's all about attitude, and attitude is determined by choice. Wow, the mind is a powerful thing.
And God does teach you while you're in the middle of praying, especially when you're dense like me.
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