One Good Thing Every Day: June 19, 2014
As I read Emily Dickinson's Poem 376 and a passage about Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, I admonished myself for being crabby this week. I suppose I could make excuses as thunder rumbles overhead again. But, I won't. I will take a cue from Job, who had plenty of reasons to complain. I will seek to apply Paul's advice to the Philippians. I will remember a gloomy forecast does not need to cloud my attitude.
...‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile...’