Hurray today is Monday!!! How many of us thought that today? For many of us it's the start of another work week, a start of another school week or both. Many of us just finished a weekend where we didn't have to do either of the two. I know for me I got to sleep in a little both days so waking up 3hrs earlier then I did the past two days isn't something that I looked foward to. This entry was sparked by that feeling of not looking foward to Monday. Today I'm stuck in the mailroom at work. We all hate it and don't like being in there. As I was at the gym yestarday I started to think about being stuck in there and wasn't looking foward to going into work on Monday. As I was thinking that I was convicted in my spirit. I started to think of all the people who are out of work right now and how much they wish they could wake up and go to work. Then I remembered something I said to someone at work last week. She thought I was sad but I told her that I'm too blessed to be sad. Remembering that made me think way different. We are too blessed to complain about going to school or work today. We need to realize how blessed we are that God would give us another day of life and allow us to work and go to school.
So many times we think of all the negative stuff that we might face instead of focusing on all the positive things. I know one of the best things to do for me to realize how blessed I am is just verbally tell God what I'm thankful for. I say everything from life and family all the way to the bed I'm sitting on while expressing this. Pastor Rick said that if we can put a number on all our blessing then there's something wrong.
So my prayer for us today is that we start living with a heart of thankfulness and turn down the complaining. I know life is tough but if you stop and take the time to realize how blessed you are then the blessings totally will out weigh the complaints. Here's a few things to start with, first if you woke up today breathing you're blessed! Oh yeah one more little thing, You have a God who loves you and sent his son to die for us so that we can have a relationship with him and have eternal life. Looks like we are pretty blessed :)